FlowTracker
Dev tools
debugging tracing
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How HN took it
14 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.61.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive, blown away by the demo, especially HTML-to-SQL tracing
From 4 comments
Blown away by the demo tracking an HTML element back to the SQL statement that added that value to the database. I can totally see a future where tools like this are the first…
BoppreH on HNVery cool! I love the demo video and I could definitely see how this would be useful when diving into an unfamiliar codebase.
michaelmior on HNVery impressive!
kitd on HNVery very impressive.
apnew on HN
Useful for debugging and understanding unfamiliar codebases
From 3 comments
Very cool! I love the demo video and I could definitely see how this would be useful when diving into an unfamiliar codebase.
michaelmior on HNThis looks really cool, I think this could have saved me some time hunting bugs when I was working with Spring in the past.
yellow_lead on HNThanks for this! Been trying to get this work with VSCode with a project I'm trying to make sense of. Having to take a pause on it right now, but looking forward to getting it…
BadJo0Jo0 on HN
Objections
Demo leads with the less useful HTML element example; suggests reordering or splitting into shorter demos
From 2 comments
I didn't make it to that element of the demo because I don't need a tool to help me find which file HTML text strings are from or that HTTP headers come from my web server. So I…
Noumenon72 on HNOr maybe split the demo into shorter demos/gifs where each highlights a specific part. Very cool project, should get more attention.
noisy_boy on HN
Requests
Integration with Gradle builds
From 1 comment
Hmm would love to connect this to our gralde builds :)
larusso on HN
Support for C# or .NET
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool! Do you think something similar is possible for c#, too?
hansoolo on HN
Questions
Whether the tool is the same as a paper on dynamic SQL injection detection in Java
From 1 comment
If I recall there was a paper on a similar tool that was used for finding SQL-injections dynamically in java programs. Is this the same tool?
peterpost2 on HN
Alternatives named
FlowStorm (Clojure)
From 1 comment
Cool! I wrote something on the same spirit but for Clojure, called FlowStorm http://www.flow-storm.org/ For instrumentation, instead of an instrumenting agent it uses a fork of…
jpmonettas on HN
Phosphor dynamic taint tracking
From 1 comment
This is incredibly cool. I love how good the tooling is in the java/jvm ecosystem. Last time I was this blown away was with jitwatch ( https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/jitwatch )…
ysleepy on HN
Java Flight Recorder
From 1 comment
This is awesome! Reminds me of Java flight recorder!
exabrial on HN
.NET Aspire and EventPipe tooling
From 1 comment
There's an event system that is integrated into all kinds of bits in the standard library and surrounding ecosystem, which plugs into all kinds of high level tools:…
neonsunset on HN