Big boys want discuss big toys! Big boys want build big toys! Big boys start Mobile Native Foundation. Very nice!

By the way, check out the discussions page, it’s somewhat interesting to read.

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#community #mobilenativefoundation

Check out this new library from Square - Curtains. It’s a bunch of Window-related APIs to make some very unpleasant things a little bit easier.

#library #window

Looks like an important thing: the 1st release of Projector is out. This tool allows us to stream IDE from a powerful server to a weak client.

#ide #intellij

The title of this post speaks for itself: “What every developer should know about TCP”. Nothing mind-blowing, just a nice reminder.

#network #tcp #http

The king SOLID is dead, long live the king SOLID!
By the way, “Ignite-style talk – 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide, auto-advancing” sounds like a nice and fun talk format.

#solid #oop

HTTP is old, and over the ages lots of strange and interesting things had found it’s way into protocol. You’ll find more details in this post. Teaser:
- no-cache header actually means do cache
- What are the 1XX codes used for?
- Every websocket depends on the same UUID 258EAFA5-E914-47DA-95CA-C5AB0DC85B11. What?

#http #network #protocol

A deep dive into how do emoji gliphs work by tonsky.

#emoji #unicode

Very exciting story: someone has found a way to significantly speed-up load time of GTA Online. That's how our suboptimal code can bring huge inconvenience to lots of people.

#gamedev #optimize #algorithm

Good news everyone! ki (kotlin interactive shell) is out. This tool is really awesome: it has completions, syntax highlighting and even knows how to import 3rd party dependencies!

#kotlin #shell #terminal

A bunch of links to new and updated Android 12 APIs. Widgets updates, SplashScreen API, and some other UI-related things have immediately attracted my attention.

#android #os #update

What's wrong with my font size? I'm using the same font and the same size across multiple editors, but it still doesn't look the same. Thanks to tonsky (yes, again!) now we know what's wrong.
This actually reminds me of that old anecdote about Space Shuttle booster rockets and two horses' back-ends.

#font #ui #text

Non-empty Kotlin collections is something very obvious, something on the very tip of the tongue. This post describes one possible way to implement them.

#kotlin #collections

Esoteric programming languages are different. Some are frightening, like Madness. Some are funny, like FiM++. But I've never seen anything as disgusting as Folders. There are no source code files in Folders, just Windows folders hierarchy, and this hierarchy defines our program.

#humor #esoteric #language

A strange but rather entertaining post: proof that Vim keystrokes are Turing-complete.

#vim #cs

The idea to show explicitly in a return type that function can fail is not new, yet still not mainstream either. In this post author shows us how to implement such Result monad in Kotlin. The implementation itself is not perfect (in which universe val reason: String is enough to describe an error?), but good enough.

#fp #monad #kotlin

Fetching updated string resources without re-building the app is kind of an understandable desire. However, implementing this thing is surprisingly hard. Check out the frightening log of this journey in the post.

#strings #resources

.flatMap, .filter and .reduce are nothing new these days. In this post you'll learn the .traverse. All these functional thingies are always interesting and fancy, but do they make our code more readable? I'm not sure.

#fp

There are a lot of different open source licenses out there, and it's kinda important to understand them. This resource will help you with that. The author explains popular licenses line-by-line, so that even regular people could understand all the conditions.

#oss #license #law

A repo with a bunch of links that'll help you to understand how the Kotlin compiler works.

#kotlin #compiler

An old post which is best described by it's title: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets. Enjoy!

#text #unicode #encoding

I've never had that need, but yes, we can use Glide to load images for our WebView. Author mentions that it significantly improves performance. I wouldn't take it for granted, but would try to measure it.

#webview #glide #image