Thomas Watson

Post-Mortem debugging is a powerful technique that allows you to take a memory dump, when an issue occurs in your application, and later analyze it offline.

Post-Mortem debugging is a really powerful technique that allows you, through the use of several tools, to take a memory dump when an issue occurs in your application and later analyze it offline.

The talk will primarily focus on llnode and how you can use this tool to better understand why a Node.js process is behaving odd or is crashing.

2019

JSNation

Post mortem NodeJS debugging

See how a cheap $10 USB DVB-T/FM radio dongle can be hacked to receive commercial airplanes signals live and directly in JavaScript.

Commercial airplanes continuously transmit data packages via radio while flying. The protocol is unencrypted and is what allows public flight tracking websites to operate.

Thomas demonstrates how a cheap $10 USB DVB-T/FM radio dongle off Amazon can be hacked to receive these signals live and directly in JavaScript.