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Two Truths and a Lie: Developer Edition.
We all know the classic icebreaker: three statements, two true, one a lie. Today we're playing it with a developer twist. Below are three rounds.
- Two statements are true, one is a lie
- Topics include programming origins and tech history
- Participants share personal developer experiences
My parser read past the input. AddressSanitizer stayed quiet.
I gave a deliberately broken parser three bytes. It read byte four. AddressSanitizer said nothing. Then I changed the allocation around the input.
- Parser read beyond input's fourth byte
- AddressSanitizer failed to detect error
- Fix involves allocating space for zero
Nibnib says 4bpp. The file still has a header.
My tiny nibnib file was larger than the raw RGB image I fed into it. For a 16×16 synthetic gradient, the raw RGB pixels took 768 bytes . The nibnib file took 1,220 bytes .
- nibnib file size 1,220 bytes for 16×16 gradient, compared to 768 bytes for raw RGB
- File stores dimensions and fixed palette before row data with explicit pixel pairs
- nibnib version 0.1.0 used, independent reader verified documented layout and decoder