TIL: Sleep sort. For an array of length N we can launch N tasks that'll sleep for some time (based on the sorting key) and then emit their value. Wait for all tasks to finish and woohoo, we have a sorted array.

#humor #algorithm #sorting

Truly fascinating historical offtop: how did it happen that browsers pretend to be each other in User-Agent header. Looks like an out of control madness.

#browser #history

Latest droidcon videos are now available. Thanks to @mindw0rk for sharing the link.

#talk #event

Unbelievable! A resume with points like:
- Expert in JavaScript, ..., Mia Khalifa, ...
- Led team of 6 engineers to mine Ethereum on company servers
- Spread Herpes STD to 60% of intern team
was good enough for companies like Reddit, Dropbox, Atlassian and others.

#hr #interview #humor

What sort of sick madness is this? @ozodrukh shared this link: a lot of people are trying to figure out how to save Fragment state while using Navigation. Is it some kind of joke?

#fragment #navigation

A short post on crash that'll happen if we invoke startForegroundService and then it'll take us too long to invoke startForeground. This guy's solution is to wait for the main thread first and only then to launch the service.

#service #thread #crash

A short list of security-related things to keep in mind when we have to work with WebView.

#cybersec #webview

Offtop, but it's worth it, I promise.
In this post author explains why japanese web is so different and so outdated, compared to what we have here.

#design #localization

Talk about designing library API in Rust. Author shows how to implement something like Python's tqdm for CLI progress bars but in a more logical, restricting, and type-safe fashion. I've enjoyed it, hope you will as well.

#talk #rust #type

In Vietnam COVID pass system used weak cryptography, which allowed researchers to get private key (and ability to generate valid QR codes) using several AWS instances, 9 hours and $250. Factoring as a Service indeed.

#cybersec #vulnerability

Inspirational talk about hacks and tricks The Ancients used to run awesome and complex games on NES.
- How to save progress if all you have is a read-only storage?
- How to perform physics calculations if you don't have fractions or division?
- How to generate a random number if you don't have a generator?

#talk #gamedev

Oneliner: the rumor is Samsung is going to use Fuchsia on real devices in a couple of years.

#samsung #fuchsia #rumor

Spotted an interesting idea in a CoRecursive episode: an attempt to apply the Benjamin Franklin method of becoming a better writer to reading books about a technology X.

#learning #podcast #book

Classics. The title says it all: "Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You".

#architecture

An interesting post in Git mailing list: creator of JGit describes, what they have to do in order to make their Java implementation of Git faster and why they are still slower than C implementation.

#git #c #java

Check out this entartaining talk by one of Erlang creators. He tries to describe "The Mess We're In", shares a bunch of his thoughts and ideas, and throws a couple of punches at JavaScript part of the world, of course.

#talk #legacy

Someone really wanted to use the same color scheme across all the different tools. Meet Dracula. It supports a lot of things. IDEs, editors, terminals, you name it. They even have Thunderbird support!

#theme #tool #ide

Here's an interesting project: coding font tournament. Two snippets, a bunch of fonts, may the strongest win. Don't forget to turn "Hide font names" on, it'd be fair.

#font #tool

Sometimes I need to format some JSON, to convert seconds back and forth or ot encode-decode some URL. Usually I've been using some random "online URL encoder"s and stuff like that, but recently I've discovered this little sucker. All-in-one kind of tool, not too expensive, always at your fingertips.

#tool

Check out this brave attempt to emulate union types in Java via checked exceptions.

#java #exception #type