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Run a website off a Google Sheets Database, with Hugo

2 months ago 11 min read Programming Profiling Documentation

Here’s how I built a website, Profilerpedia, using a Google Sheet as the backing database. Profilerpedia aims to map the profiling ecosystem and connect software with profilers and profilers with great analysis

Log backtraces at obfuscated Android methods

2 months ago 3 min read

Logging a stack trace is a useful way to tell why a method is being called. But it's not always so easy to log a backtrace. Tools like dtrace and linux-perf can log

Book cover of Gene Kim's "The Unicorn Project"

Book Review: The Unicorn Project

2 months ago 7 min read

These are my notes from Gene Kim’s book The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Digital Disruption, Developers, and Overthrowing the Ancient Powerful Order. I enjoyed this book and recommend it. I delayed

Custom flamegraph root frames from pprof Labels: 3 frames, 'docs section', 'single.html template', index.html target_filename

pprof -tagroot: Custom Labels in Go Flamegraphs

2 months ago 4 min read Profiling Visualizations Programming

pprof -tagroot lets you break down & visualise pprof software profiles by custom, domain-specific key-value pairs (Labels, aka Tags) attached to each stack sample.

Profilerpedia: A map of the Software Profiling Ecosystem

4 months ago 4 min read Profiling Visualizations

I mapped out over 100 Profilers, what Profile Data Formats they output, and what Profiler UIs can visualise those formats: Profilerpedia