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Thanks. As I was developing FlowTracker, a lot of the work was driven by making tracking of specific example programs work. I knew what result I was aiming for, but it was hard to predict what lower level mechanisms needed to be supported to make a specific example work. That often depended on internal implementation details of the JDK or libraries being used where the data was passing through. But the HTML element l…
I didn't make it to that element of the demo because I don't need a tool to help me find which file HTML text strings are from or that HTTP headers come from my web server. So I would recommend putting that "wow" element earlier in the demo.
Re: Show HN: FlowTracker – Track data flowing through Java programs
#31Or maybe split the demo into shorter demos/gifs where each highlights a specific part. Very cool project, should get more attention.