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A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell


Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…

Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely. Basic debugger use and navigationIn the clip I also showed the process of stepping through threads, spawning source view, setting and toggling breakpoints, inspecting registers and modifying target variables. Not because of the relaxing task of debugging code or exploring software state itself, but for the absolutely atrocious terminal thrashing interface even with mitigation layers such as pwndbg.

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