Archive - Digital Grove

Cracking the Code: Realtime Debugger Visualization Architecture – BSC 2025

My talk at the 2025 Better Software Conference.

Jul 23 •

December 2024

Demystifying Debuggers, Part 3: Debugger-Kernel Interaction

On how kernels collect and expose information about program execution to debuggers.

Dec 28, 2024 •

Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy Of A Running Program

On the concepts involved in a running program. What happens, exactly, when you double click an executable file, or launch it from the command line, and…

Dec 23, 2024 •

Demystifying Debuggers, Part 1: A Busy Intersection

An introduction to a new post series covering debugger basics.

Dec 16, 2024 •

Programmers Are Users (Bad Performance Makes Everyone Less Efficient)

On the often-referenced notion of saving “programmer cycles” at the expense of CPU cycles.

Dec 6, 2024 •

July 2024

Codebase Walkthrough: Multi-Window, Panel-Tree UI

Building a multi-window, panel-tree UI sample in the codebase.

Jul 8, 2024 •

1:07:00

Codebase Walkthrough: Using The Metaprogram

Walking through the structure and basic usage of the codebase's metaprogram, which allows for arbitrary compile-time execution, code generation, and…

Jul 6, 2024 •

33:58

May 2024

Enter The Arena: Simplifying Memory Management (Talk)

A talk on arena-based memory management.

May 13, 2024 •

1:47:49

Upstream & Downstream

Separating computational cause from effect.

May 11, 2024 •

March 2024

Multi-Threading & Mutation

On mutation, how it subtly occurs in single-threaded code, and how it can disrupt the process of upgrading single-threaded code to being multi-threaded.

Mar 12, 2024 •

January 2024

Codebase Walkthrough: From-Scratch Data Structures

Walking through techniques & helpers for building data structures in the Digital Grove codebase.

Jan 1, 2024 •

1:07:22

December 2023

Codebase Walkthrough: Strings

Outlining and walking through the base layer's string code, which has helped me write much simpler, more flexible, more dynamic, and more robust string…

Dec 31, 2023 •

43:22

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