Mark Hansen

I'm a Software Engineering Manager working on Google Maps in Sydney, Australia. I write about software {engineering, management, profiling}, data visualisation, and transport.

Run a website off a Google Sheets Database, with Hugo

Nov 27, 2021 11 min read Programming

Here’s how I built a website, Profilerpedia, using a Google Sheet as the backing database. Profilerpedia aims to map the profiling ecosystem and connect software with profilers and profilers with great analysis

Log backtraces at obfuscated Android methods

Nov 25, 2021 3 min read

Logging a stack trace is a useful way to tell why a method is being called. But it's not always so easy to log a backtrace. Tools like dtrace and linux-perf

Book Review: The Unicorn Project

Nov 21, 2021 7 min read

These are my notes from Gene Kim’s book The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Digital Disruption, Developers, and Overthrowing the Ancient Powerful Order [https://booko.com.au/9781942788768/The-Unicorn-Project-A-Novel-about-Digital-Disruption-Redshirts-and-Overthrowing-the-Ancient-Powerful-Order] . I enjoyed this

pprof -tagroot: Custom Labels in Go Flamegraphs

Nov 6, 2021 4 min read Profiling

pprof -tagroot lets you break down & visualise pprof software profiles by custom, domain-specific key-value pairs (Labels, aka Tags) attached to each stack sample.

Profilerpedia: A map of the Software Profiling Ecosystem

Oct 2, 2021 4 min read Profiling

I mapped out over 100 Profilers, what Profile Data Formats they output, and what Profiler UIs can visualise those formats: Profilerpedia