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

This is probably the best blog post I've ever seen. It describes how GPS works step-by-step. Just take a look at all these interactive visualizations. The amount of work put in simply takes my breath away. Moreover, GPS itself now looks even more impressive.

#gps #navigation

A short guide on using Perfetto to profile main thread events. Haven't tried this tool out just yet, but looks kinda promising.

#profiler #performance

Everyone in our line of work is familiar with animal pictures on the covers of O’Reilly books. Here's a short history of those covers.

#book #history

There's a new personalization feature in Firebase Remote Config. This thing uses ML to find the best value of some key for each particular user to optimize a particular metric.

#firebase #ml

Arrow announced their Analysis. It's a plugin for Kotlin compiler that is able to analyze flow of your code and to perform deeper-than-usual checks.

#lint #compiler #plugin

Cowabunga, dogs!
This post is just too good to try to describe it. Most tech content is bullshit. There's bullshit everywhere. Follow the white rabbit to get the rest.

#programming

A fascinating post. It took only 4 months to deliver the 1st version of STEPN. The devs shared what problems they'd encountered. Not as specific as we'd like, but nevertheless.
Let's thank @istima for the link.

#gps #blockchain #gamedev

Well, Kotlin 1.7.0 is out. Feels like an intermediary release. Smells like teen spirit. I wonder, where this T & Any syntax in generics will lead us to.

#kotlin #language

Sit back, relax, and check out this story about a guy who got the job at Microsoft because he got lucky and the problem he was given at the 1st interview has been already known to him.

#story #microsoft #interview

"Writing for interfaces" video from WWDC. Wait, what?! WWDC? Here? Believe me, I'm as shocked as you are. Nevertheless, they describe some sort of a framework on how to approach writing texts in your interfaces. Who knows, maybe your next soon-to-be-forgotten pet project will benefit from watching this short video?

#talk #design #text

There are rumors that Google is going to make all Android 13 devices use EROFS as file system for read-only partitions. This thing is supposed to work faster than EXT4 and to take less space. It was developed by a guy named Xiang Gao while he was working for Huawei. Their devices were used to test the whole thing on production, by the way.

#os #kernel #huawei

Astrologists proclaim week of indie game devs. All Android dev related posts have fled while screaming in horror.
We'll start slowly: one, two, three short videos by our good old jdh who's working on a game about a robot. That wants to plant plants. In a world, where no plants have left. Underground.

#talk #gamedev #cpp