debugging
- The AOT Hang That Wasn't
One line in my notes: "Micronaut AOT hangs native image — keep both false. AOT disabled." Five sessions. Five different engineers (all me, different days). Nobody questioned it. The line accreted authority through repetition, the way all project folklore does. …
- Three Bugs in a Trenchcoat Pretending to Be One Hang
The task list for this project had a one-liner that persisted for a week: "Micronaut AOT hangs — keep disabled." Every developer who touched the project read that line, nodded, and moved on. AOT disabled. Property set to false. Life continued. Nobody …
- HTC Desire Z Home button dead on CM7: nine suspects, no culprit
The Home key on an HTC Desire Z running CyanogenMod 7 did nothing. Nine theories, a factory reset and a new kernel later, only a full reflash fixed it.
- HTC Desire Z boot hang, an innocent cache wipe, and a reflash
An HTC Desire Z on CyanogenMod 7 hung at boot before I wiped cache; four reflashes failed, and the one I ran by hand hit an eMMC I/O error.
- HTC Desire Z: three black screens and a brightness of 30
Debloating CyanogenMod 7 on an HTC Desire Z, the screen went black three times in 22 minutes. One was a saved brightness of 30; two never got a cause.