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

Check out this visual Clojure REPL. Have no idea why would I need something like this at the moment, but it looks impressive for sure.

#talk #tool #clojure

OMG, e-book readers are vulnerable! JS execution, filesystem reads, network access - you can do bad bad things there. It seems that humanity has failed.

#talk #cybersec #book

I'm basically obliged to share this video, two of my passions meet - chess and programming. Some guy is building the game itself and some basic AI for it.

#talk #gamedev #ai

On our last peerlab we've been trying to understand how suitable is DALL-E for pet project graphics generation. There's a story of generating graphics for a game in this post. So, somewhat suitable.

#image #ai #ml

Listen on a port - what does it mean? This post tries to help you build mental model of these interactions. Really love this narrative style with characters, their relationships, etc.

#socket #network #port