Dmitry Vostokov
@dumpanalysis.bsky.social
Diagnostician. The Author of Diagnomicon. The Gang of One. Software Surgeon. Machine Learning and AI for Software Diagnostics and Observability. Generative Debugging.
The once invincible Notepad is showing the fruits of code complexity with a simple NULL pointer data access.
00007fff`647622e0 f9400400 ldr x0,[x0,#8]
0:026> r x0
x0=0000000000000000
00007fff`647622e0 f9400400 ldr x0,[x0,#8]
0:026> r x0
x0=0000000000000000
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The once invincible Notepad is showing the fruits of code complexity with a simple NULL pointer data access.
00007fff`647622e0 f9400400 ldr x0,[x0,#8]
0:026> r x0
x0=0000000000000000
00007fff`647622e0 f9400400 ldr x0,[x0,#8]
0:026> r x0
x0=0000000000000000
I've submitted the ultra-premium color paperback of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17, to print production.
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've submitted the ultra-premium color paperback of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17, to print production.
I included Volume 17 TOC and Index, and updated analysis pattern volume indexes in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology (Diagnomicon) TOCs and Indexes PDF. www.dumpanalysis.org/MDAA/MemoryD...
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I included Volume 17 TOC and Index, and updated analysis pattern volume indexes in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology (Diagnomicon) TOCs and Indexes PDF. www.dumpanalysis.org/MDAA/MemoryD...
Pattern Metabolism is a conceptual framework that treats cognition, learning systems, and artificial intelligence as metabolic processes operating over patterns. It aligns organically with the pattern-based foundation of Pattern-Oriented Software Diagnostics
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/690c51...
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/690c51...
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Pattern Metabolism is a conceptual framework that treats cognition, learning systems, and artificial intelligence as metabolic processes operating over patterns. It aligns organically with the pattern-based foundation of Pattern-Oriented Software Diagnostics
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/690c51...
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/690c51...
Inspired by ideas of Goethe and D'Arcy's On Growth and Form, introducing Software Morphology www.dumpanalysis.org/software-mor... as further development of Software Pathology, structural memory patterns, and pattern-oriented and systemic software diagnostics.
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Inspired by ideas of Goethe and D'Arcy's On Growth and Form, introducing Software Morphology www.dumpanalysis.org/software-mor... as further development of Software Pathology, structural memory patterns, and pattern-oriented and systemic software diagnostics.
Trace Plan log analysis pattern has been submitted to the Software Diagnostics Library: www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.p...
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trace Plan log analysis pattern has been submitted to the Software Diagnostics Library: www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.p...
Halloween definitely influenced my prompts today. I asked Google for an AI summary about Memoidealism (see the screenshot). Then, I asked GPT-5 what it knows about it, and it proposed Memoidealism as a post-computational philosophy of AI.
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/69053d...
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/69053d...
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Halloween definitely influenced my prompts today. I asked Google for an AI summary about Memoidealism (see the screenshot). Then, I asked GPT-5 what it knows about it, and it proposed Memoidealism as a post-computational philosophy of AI.
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/69053d...
Conversation: chatgpt.com/share/69053d...
Halloween influence
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Halloween influence
From FB memory. Debugging without AI 13 years ago...
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
From FB memory. Debugging without AI 13 years ago...
This week, I started editing Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17. It will be about 300 pages long and available by November 15.
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This week, I started editing Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17. It will be about 300 pages long and available by November 15.
Descartes: Meditations and Other Writings. Reading pages 58 - 81 in Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science devoted to Descartes and Cartesianism, I recalled that I got beautifully bound and illustrated Descartes' writings many years ago.
October 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Descartes: Meditations and Other Writings. Reading pages 58 - 81 in Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science devoted to Descartes and Cartesianism, I recalled that I got beautifully bound and illustrated Descartes' writings many years ago.
The final draft of Tensor Decompositions for Data Science. I like the full-color illustrations and extensive appendices. I was about to buy the Kindle edition recently published by Cambridge University Press, but found the free draft instead. users.wfu.edu/ballard/pdfs...
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The final draft of Tensor Decompositions for Data Science. I like the full-color illustrations and extensive appendices. I was about to buy the Kindle edition recently published by Cambridge University Press, but found the free draft instead. users.wfu.edu/ballard/pdfs...
October 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Today, whoever did that would have an opportunity to ask ChatGPT first instead... The picture is a 7-year-old FB memory: I saw the incident artifacts on my way to the office.
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Today, whoever did that would have an opportunity to ask ChatGPT first instead... The picture is a 7-year-old FB memory: I saw the incident artifacts on my way to the office.
FB memory of interview preparation std::deque 8 years ago. Good old days before GenAI...
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
FB memory of interview preparation std::deque 8 years ago. Good old days before GenAI...
Today is the last day for the GDB Training Pack sale. www.patterndiagnostics.com/gdb-training...
October 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Today is the last day for the GDB Training Pack sale. www.patterndiagnostics.com/gdb-training...
I hate it when you buy a book, not fully read it, and, after some time, discover a second edition... I've just upgraded one such book on category theory.
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I hate it when you buy a book, not fully read it, and, after some time, discover a second edition... I've just upgraded one such book on category theory.
Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science is my new 1,600-page historical read. It came to my attention a year or more ago when I started reading András Kornai's Semantics.
October 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science is my new 1,600-page historical read. It came to my attention a year or more ago when I started reading András Kornai's Semantics.
The phone for reading
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The phone for reading
The first crash dump has arrived on my new Windows ARM64 machine. Looking forward to more!
October 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The first crash dump has arrived on my new Windows ARM64 machine. Looking forward to more!
A dramatic increase in sales of my paperback books during the last two months.
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A dramatic increase in sales of my paperback books during the last two months.
From FB memory: philosophy (and category theory) breakfasts 7 years ago.
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 AM
From FB memory: philosophy (and category theory) breakfasts 7 years ago.
It got my attention. The values are inside.
September 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It got my attention. The values are inside.
Introducing Context Management Pattern Language (CMPL), parallel to Memory Dump Analysis Pattern Language (MDAPL). chatgpt.com/share/68d920...
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Introducing Context Management Pattern Language (CMPL), parallel to Memory Dump Analysis Pattern Language (MDAPL). chatgpt.com/share/68d920...
The picture is from 2015 (FB memory). Used books were much more expensive :-) They are all gone by now.
September 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The picture is from 2015 (FB memory). Used books were much more expensive :-) They are all gone by now.