About a problem with popular open source projects. We're using them for free, we do often require support, but we're not always ready to pay.

#curl #oss #library

On our latest peer lab something frightening has come out. Java Generics are Turing Complete. I'll just leave it here...

#java #generics #paper

Stumbled upon this nice github repo: a collection of posts describing how to implement something. BitTorrent client? Be my guest. Cryptocurrency? Easy. Your own shell? You're welcome.

#programming #language #repository

Google reports that with each year there are less and less severe and memory safety vulnerabilities in Android, and rather unequivocally nods in Rust direction.

#cybersec #vulnerability #rust

Several books on how various open source projects are built or how to implement their core parts by yourself.
You can buy them or enjoy for free on their website.
Let's thank @dtrabo for the link.

#book #architecture #oss

One of Chrome devs shares some stories about the beginning and growing up of the project.

#google #browser #history

Oh wow, it turns out K-9 Mail has joined Mozilla. We'll have open source Thunderbird on Android. Let's cheer for them!

#mozilla #mail #app

Dwarf Fortress is a legendary game that has always been "for geeks" and anti-user-friendly. Finally, the devs decided to build a more human-oriented version!

#game #dwarffortress

Let's keep it relaxed, let this week be a week of podcasts.
In this episode Guido van Rossum talks about python, programming, IDEs and many other things.

#podcast #python #talk

Episode with John Carmack. I've really enjoyed his ideas on running things under debugger at first by default and on collection size assertions. These are probably not always practical in terms of Android dev, but I think they're nice anyway.

#podcast #gamedev #talk

A bunch of funny and clever prompts for ChatGPT. I've really enjoyed "Act as ‘Character’ from ‘Movie/Book/Anything’". It doesn't really know all the nuances of a fictional universe, however. "Act as <position> Interviewer" was really boring, on the other hand. I wouldn't like to be interviewed this way.

#ai #chat

For fans: the making of Dune II - a legendary game, one of the 1st RTSs. I really enjoy it on Miyoo Mini from time to time :)

#history #gamedev

I'm a huge fan of BOTW, and in this video my man did a great analysis of how modern rendering and lightning work, and performed a hell of an investigation of a known glitch. Really impressive, highly recommend to check it out!
Let's thank @Istima for the link

#gamedev #graphics #talk

Wow, this looks nice! AdbOrc - a tool that allows you to build a virtual device farm of a sort with your fellow devs. Usecase: there's a bug that is only reproducible on QA's device and you can't access it physically, they share access through this thing, you connect and do your little nasty thing.

#adb #tool

YAML is a truly broken poor thing. You'll find some of its quirks in this post. Highly recommend to check it out. I'm surprised that all of this still works somehow.

#yaml #json #format

Awesome talk by JSON discoverer. How it all started, who were the competitors, and so on. A bunch of funny stories included. You won't regret watching.

#json #format #talk

First, they tell you that reading assembly is easy. Then they tell you that
- RAX register is 64 bits
- EAX is lower 32 bits of RAX
- AX is lower 16 bits of RAX
- AL is lower 8 bits of RAX
- AH is higher 8 bits of AX
- Writing to them works as expected, but writing to EAX will zero out the rest of RAX
- There are a bunch of different registers, e.g. RAX, RCX, RDX, RBX. Yep, not ABCD, but ACDB. It's the order they're stored in
- (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

#cpu #assembler #compiler

Just for the sake of laugh: WTFJS talk about funny JS quirks.

#talk #humor #js

Two nice posts from Lyft on how to track CPU and memory consumption in production.

#performance #cpu #memory

Old (ancient even) talk by Vitalik Buterin on game theory, value of things and how it all connects with blockchain. No bullshit, so to speak.

#talk #blockchain