"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

A week is a week. Here's the next video in that jdh series on custom game engine. Almost an hour of explanations on how this thing works. I've found several new ideas. But mostly I've been terrified on how they do things in C++. Disgusting. But again, maybe that's the way these things are done, dunno. Moreover, it's a pet project, jdh does anything he wants.

#talk #gamedev #cpp

Awesome stuff!
The Grug Brained Developer.
A long post about different aspects of our job written in a "Hulk angry" style.
Almost any line could be an amazing quote, I've picked these:
- "grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused"
- "Microservices: grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too"
- "javascript developers call very special complexity demon spirit in javascript "callback hell" because too much closure used by javascript libraries very sad but also javascript developer get what deserved let grug be frank"

#programming #humor

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Pain. Because how else would you call the process of manually merging multiple Linux Kernel patches? BitKeeper was after. Didn't make it. Then Git was built. And here we are.
You'll find the story of Git origins in this post. What VCS existed back then, what was wrong with them, what did Linus want, why did he pause Kernel development at some point and build a tool that is used by the majority of developers today.

#git #history

Boy, do I love such talks! Chet Haase and Romain Guy have met once again and are happy to present apex - an experimental UI toolkit. It really is just a toy, but it's always nice to see how such systems could be built from scratch (not finished C:). It's also worth mentioning that they've used entity component system which you could've seen in one of the gamedev videos several posts ago.

#talk #ui #framework

Text version of "Maintaining Software Correctness" talk by Dan Lew. There's no novelty there - knowledge, docs, automated cheks, etc. However, I really like the way this info is structured and explained. Nice job!

#docs #lint #test

There is this new color harmonization thing in material. It allows you to use your colors, but to "shift" them a little bit towards colors extracted from user's background. Looks nice!

#material #design #ui

A short guide on how to reuse code for Gradle Kotlin DSL files. It's easy to do that in Groovy, with Kotlin things are a bit more complicated.

#gradle #kotlin #build

Have accidentally spotted this bad boy: a short overview of books and lectures one could use to self study math. You know, just in case you haven't suffered enough during your university times.

#talk #math

Google announced a new open source project: Now in Android app. It showcases how all those hipster technologies could be used. Really hope the code is not their usual piece of garbage.

#app #google #oss

One more useless piece of knowledge: which bytes are sent / received when we press keys in a terminal.

#terminal #keyboard

Wow, nice, I didn't even know about that! You can plug-in pretty much any external tool into Intellij w/o any plugins.

#ide #tool #intellij

We've been using this approach for a long time, but it turns out, there's a smart-ass name for it: Stacked PRs. In short: instead of submitting one fat pull request with your feature, you submit several small dependent PRs. It works well with github, however there are still some things to be done manually. Author highlights, which parts we'd probably like to perform automatically or in an easy way, and which tools could potentially help us with that.

#git #tool

Quite an interesting post on reference counting vs. garbage collectors.

#gc #memory

Droidcon Berlin '22 recordings are now available. Go check them out, maybe you'll like something :)

#event #talk

Check out this project. They're trying to build location system on top of blockchain and to avoid all the problems of GPS or radio protocols.

#gps #location #blockchain

In this post you'll find a bunch of cases where Docker can be very useful in unobvious ways. You can use it as a compiler, as a tool for cross-arch compilation, or even as Make alternative!

#docker

1983. FORTRAN is for hipsters. Drum memory computers. And Mel. A Real Programmer. Check this story out.

#humor #story #history