This is a fictional story of a debug session that goes down the rabbit hole, based on some historical events.
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This is a fictional story of a debug session that goes down the rabbit hole, based on some historical events.
Just finished listening to this yesterday. I was going to say this was my favorite piece of post-xz programmer fiction, but then I saw it was actually written in 2009.
I love this kind of fiction that’s not afraid to alienate non-programmers by getting into the weeds instead of handwaving things or worse, making up technobabble.
There’s some discussion after the story.
The story is from 2009, I haven’t tried comparing it to the podcast transcript. It was discussed here.
I did make some changes to it, but mainly just changing some details so it seemed more like the 2020s and not the 2000s.