this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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Why? I got a new job and, for a lot of reasons, it's the first time I'm really motivated by my coworkers. I want to understand this small but relatively complex codebase, and the bookmarks/breakpoints system is not good when you need to discover a lot of topics in a short amount of time (a few months usually when you get a new job).
I'm currently fixing bugs, and while it's going great so far, some bugs are more complex and may require me to understand the whole "flow" of the architecture, but it's different for each bug. I work in the medical field and I have to juggle with a few bugs at the same time before anything is validated, that's why I wanted to take notes of what I deemed interesting while debugging.
Also I often switch branches which explains why breakpoints have to be changed all the time. Breakpoints and Doxygen don't show in a simple way how the code can go from step 1 to step 2 to step 3.