AN INSPIRED ENGINEER

Writing.

Notes from the space between theory and a working system.

How adbtop Watches an Android App Without Touching It

adbtop shows CPU, memory, frames, network and battery of an Android app in your terminal. No root, nothing added to the app. This is how it works inside, and the bugs that made me stop trusting my own charts for a while.

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ChatGPT Starts Working on Your Message Before You Hit Send

I recorded all my keys and all the requests in one ChatGPT session. My first letter was sent after about 20 ms, then my draft was sent again every 45 seconds, and each request reserved a server for me for 60 seconds.

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