489: Constructive Cat with Elecia and Chris

Chris and Elecia discuss her origami art show, ponder PRs for solo developers, attempt to explain GDB debugging, and make a to-do list for getting rid of Kanga. Elecia is having an Origami Octopus Garden art show at the Aptos Public Library for the month of November, 2024. The postcard advertisement is below. There are more pictures on her Instagram (@elecia_white). The python tessellation generator is here.

Memfault’s Interrupt Debugging Firmware with GDB post is a much more considered explanation of GDB and includes pointers to other resources (including using Python with GDB).

The?transcript?from the show is now available. Feel free to read, search and repost at your leisure.

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Your weekly links:

• An interesting GDB tutorial by way of a case study. It shows all the steps including dead ends, plus some things even we didn't know about, like the text based GUI option "--tui".
• If you're looking for something shorter, this tutorial has the basics for you.
• How to use a JLink Remote Server to make a board accessible for debugging to multiple hosts. This extends our discussion of the GDB server in the podcast.
• This beautiful site walks you through how complex numbers work on the way to explaining?Julia set fractals. Make sure to step through each visualization!

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