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

Yet another talk by Rich Hickey. He discusses the difference between simple and easy, why simplicity is important and how to spot the lack of it in your tools and systems.

#talk #programming

Chet Haase is about to release his book Androids: The team that built the Android operating system. In the post you'll find two chapters - The Pitch and The Acquisition.

#book #history

Here's how large screens support was improved in Google I/O app. I don't like the code, but I like that we can use those design decisions as a reference.

#app #design #tablet

I love everything about this "Jonathan Blow tries Razer BlackWidow TE Chroma v2 keyboard" video.
A couple of quotes:
- "I don't want a user experience. My preferred keyboard is one that doesn't have a user experience."
- "I don't want to sign in, what is this bullshit?"

#humor #keyboard #talk

A fascinating story about a Bumble app vulnerability that allowed to retrieve real location of users.

#vulnerability #cybersec #location

A nice tutorial on pipes and redirects in bash.

#bash #terminal

A short post on history of programming languages, systems' simplicity, and, surprise-surprise, Go.

"Somewhere between Objective-C and Swift you ended up with one framework from the past, one framework from the future, and one tangled mess in the present."

#programming #golang