A Master's Practice: On the Art of Debugging

This week, whilst troubleshooting video encoding discrepancies for a film, I was reminded of the immense wizard power of debugging: the art of systematically bisecting your way to the root cause of a problem, then devising the cleanest fix. This is an art that cannot be taught and which few professions lead you to learn. Even among those that do, such as computer programming, only the most diligent practitioners come to master it, because it is at once unnatural and primordial. We can be sure that many humans will never in their lives enact this discipline, but also that it is fundamental to our success as a species. ...

6 Aug 2025 路 2 min 路 Gianluca Truda

8 bits of advice to flourish at the Recurse Center

A byte-sized guide to developing your taste and agency at the world鈥檚 best programming retreat.

6 Feb 2025 路 10 min 路 Gianluca Truda

Gigabucks, burning my Mac's GPU, and Karpathy's lament | Weeknotes

Week 41 of 2024, Week 9 of RC.

14 Oct 2024 路 8 min 路 Gianluca Truda

The blueprint of agency

Why some sail and others drift.

31 Oct 2023 路 4 min 路 Gianluca Truda