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Damien Deville
Personal blog · ddeville.meprogrammingsystems
Damien Deville's personal blog at ddeville.me covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts on Objective-C nil message handling and on using VMware Fusion's GDB stub to debug virtual machines. Commenters cite them as sources for technical points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Previously at Dropbox, Realmac Software. UCL Computer Science alumnus.
What Hacker News says?
There is a means to do that: http://ddeville.me/2013/06/ruby-like-nil-messaging-in-object... I have a feeling it wouldn't work well in practice if you made the handler raise an exception. As the author notes, you're not the only one sending messages, and Cocoa will probably crash your program with a nil message send sooner or later. But you might be able to use it to find out where it's happening, at least.
Comment linking /2013/06/ruby-like-nil-messaging-in-objective-c/
on “Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X”Submitted Kernel Debugging with LLDB and VMware Fusion as a story · 53 points
HN discussionYou could do that anyway. It will take a bit of looking into but go ahead and attach a debugger to your virtual machine and set breakpoints anywhere you want, even in kernel code. http://ddeville.me/2015/08/using-the-vmware-fusion-gdb-stub-...
Comment linking /2015/08/using-the-vmware-fusion-gdb-stub-for-kernel-debugging-with-lldb
on “TLS Attack: TeLeScope Reads Virtualized Systems' TLS Communications”Submitted Interprocess communication on iOS with Mach messages as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the VMware Fusion GDB Stub for Kernel Debugging with LLDB as a story · 2 points
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