{"id":1,"date":"2012-07-08T22:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T22:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-07-09T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:27:12","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Legendary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tug.org\/mactex\/2012\/fontcache\/Debugging.pdf\">epic tale<\/a> of tracking down a very strange bug in the Mac version of the canonically nerdy typesetting tool LaTEX.  Interesting to observe how debugging happens across a large open-source team without anyone designated as tester or QA.<\/p>\n<p>(Stylistically, I find this to be a compelling use of the character-based narrative format for telling a testing story, a trope I find cloying in many software testing articles.  Perhaps it succeeds because in this case the characters are real rather than obviously invented in service of the authorial point.)<\/p>\n<p><cite>For more context, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tug.org\/mactex\/2012\/fontcache\/fix-font-cache-bug.html\">MacTex&#8217;s full story of the font cache bug<\/a><\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An epic tale of tracking down a very strange bug in the Mac version of the canonically nerdy typesetting tool LaTEX. Interesting to observe how debugging happens across a large open-source team without anyone designated as tester or QA. (Stylistically, I find this to be a compelling use of the character-based narrative format for telling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/epistemic-applications.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}