Open Source Hacker

opensourcehacker.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011

Open Source Hacker is a developer's blog with practical tips on Python, Sublime Text, JavaScript, SSH, and OS X tooling.

What HN saysHN links it for practical developer tips. One commenter points to its post on dtruss, the OS X equivalent of strace.
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zbentley · 2018-02-11
Dtruss: https://opensourcehacker.com/2011/12/02/osx-strace-equivalent-dtruss-s… Also, on OSX you have access to (mostly) the full power of dtrace, so you can do diagnostics on closed-source, debug-stripped running programs that make strace look small by comparison.

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