I definitely spent a lot of time carefully crafting the message and iterating on a minimal repro.
Writing on the internet requires a LOT of defensive effort. It’s very annoying but is what it is. I write blog posts and my secret goal is “high views, low comments”. Because most comments are “well ackchyually“.
For the Reddit thread it helped that I tagged u/STL and he responded quickly in agreement. That was very intentional on my part! I’m still a little sad I didn’t get a Raymond Chen comment though!
Does Raymond comment on Reddit? That would feel like a personal achievement indeed.
One of the smallest pieces of work I'm proud of is a tool that automates the labor of Raymond's "The poor man's way of identifying memory leaks". The part where you need to be familiar with how your data types look in memory isn't automated, that's on you, but my tool (leakdice because it replaces the hexadecimal dice I previously used for this in real life) picks a random page of heap in a chosen (Linux) process and shows you what's in it, the rest is up to you as Raymond explains.
I definitely spent a lot of time carefully crafting the message and iterating on a minimal repro.
Writing on the internet requires a LOT of defensive effort. It’s very annoying but is what it is. I write blog posts and my secret goal is “high views, low comments”. Because most comments are “well ackchyually“.
For the Reddit thread it helped that I tagged u/STL and he responded quickly in agreement. That was very intentional on my part! I’m still a little sad I didn’t get a Raymond Chen comment though!