#debugging

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midden: Heap Dumps from the Command Line

Midden is a single-binary heap dump analyzer for the JVM, written in Rust. Tested against two deliberate leaks and checked against MAT, it found both and got the sizes right, from a shell prompt rather than a workstation, and very quickly.

The Wrong Boundary

Junior programmers mess up paradigms because they think they're more experienced than they actually are. They end up blaming the system for not working the way they think it should. I trusted the wrong thing, just like a junior programmer: I assumed my tests were wrong, my results were wrong, that I was wrong, and I was - but the error was in the location of the problem.