Is print debugging good enough?

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Let’s debate debugging techniques! Do you print debug or dive deep into debugging tools? KBall & Jerod argue that print statements are all you need while Amal & guest Eric Clemmons take the other side. Who will win and why will it be Jerod? 😉

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Featuring:

• Eric Clemmons – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• patch-package
• replay.io

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Welcoming our debaters (00:00:40)

3. Amal intros Eric (00:01:41)

4. Setting the debate stage (00:03:15)

5. Amal's opening statement (00:06:48)

6. KBall's rebuttal (00:08:28)

7. Eric's turn (00:10:28)

8. Jerod's response (00:11:57)

9. Amal round 2 (00:14:48)

10. KBall round 2 (00:15:32)

11. Eric round 2 (00:16:31)

12. Jerod round 2 (00:17:35)

13. Amal round 3 (00:18:56)

14. KBall round 3 (00:20:02)

15. Eric round 3 (00:21:22)

16. And the winner is... (00:22:35)

17. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:23:34)

https://changelog.com/news

18. Real thoughts begin (00:25:42)

19. How Eric finds bugs (00:37:14)

20. Bug sources > symptoms (00:38:46)

21. One thing at a time (00:41:34)

22. On intuition (00:42:15)

23. Happy path assumptions (00:45:15)

24. It's almost always your code (00:47:58)

25. Check out patch-package (00:50:34)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package

26. replay.io (00:53:15)

https://replay.io

27. Time-travel debugging (00:55:53)

28. Closing time (00:58:26)

29. Outro (01:00:04)