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

I really enjoy posts like that: author spotted an unscramble-the-words task in a local newspaper and without hesitations implemented solvers for it in three languages.

#algorithm #just4fun

Check out this new experimental tool by Google. It helps to analyze dependencies of different open source libraries. Maven support is already there!

#google #oss #deps

This one is funny: "Drunk Post: Things I've learned as a Sr Engineer"

#software #developer

Interruptions are frustrating to developers, it's a fact. In this post you'll find some trivial tips on minimizing them, but you'll also find a somewhat beautiful analogy between building a picture of a piece of code in your head and building a card tower, really liked that one.

#focus #programming

That's an interesting move by Google: AppSearch alpha is out. It's kind of a document DB tailored for fast on-device full-text search.

#jetpack #library #appsearch

Well, this is huge! A number of severe vulnerabilities were discovered in apps pre-installed on Samsung devices. Possibilities are endless: from spying and reading any file to full control over the system.

#cybersec #samsung #vulnerability

@istima shared a totally insane link: this guy has decided to reach "complete electronic independence" and has built: custom assembly language, custom assembler and custom CPU scheme. Moreover, now he threatens to physically build that custom processor. JUST BECAUSE HE CAN

#talk #cpu #assembler

An entertaining talk with a brief history of different programming languages, a nice complement for your evening: "Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm?"

#talk #fp #language

And again, a short and simple post with a speaking title: "What Every Programmer Should Know About SSDs".

#ssd #hardware

Good old Rich Hickey and his "Maybe Not" talk. He reflects on all these Optional<String> and String? thingies and comes up with a rather interesting solution for Clojure: we need to use the same User entity with optional fields in different contexts with different requirements - sometimes we want a firstName + lastName User, and sometimes we need only id + address.

#talk #clojure #optional

Check out this somewhat interesting post about thread priorities in Android.

#thread #cpu

Amazing Kaspersky Password Manager vulnerability: for the standard preset it was generating the same exact password for every user each second.

#cybersec #vulnerability

Just an amazing talk about SQLite from it's creator. I can highly recommend to watch this one. Some people are just so excited to tell about what they're working on, that this excitement reaches you even through a youtube video.

#talk #sqlite #database

I haven't given a thorough inspection to this Insetter library just yet, but looks very promising. We specify which system bars should be handled with paddings and which - with margins, and it handles the rest.

#library #insets

In this post author dives into Telegram's approach to resizing images before uploading them.

#image #optimize

This one is precious. A short note titled "A day in the life of a professional software engineer".

#humor #developer

Sweet jesus in a hail storm URLs are much more complicated than I thought!

#url #http