AR version of Space Invaders by Google. I thought AR on Android is dead, but it seems they're still trying to hang in there. Cool that it's doable on a phone now. I've played a similar game on Microsoft HoloLens, it was another level of hardware, compared to mobile.

#gamedev #ar #google

You've probably heard about Outline VPN. Here's a cool thing: they've released SDK that can be used directly in a product. It means that users will be able to continue using censored app without their own VPN.

#google #network #vpn

Not even close to IT, moreover, it's a longread, but it worth your time, I promise. An excellent systemic dive into the industry of small credit card debt collectors in the US.

#bank #finance #debt

Capslock by Google. Tool to check your dependencies for unexpected file and network access, arbitrary code execution, etc. One of the goals is to fight supply-chain attacks. Only available for Go at the moment, but they promise other languages later.

#google #cybersec #vulnerability

This one is just for fun. A game. Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer. Take a look at the photo, have you seen this person?

#humor #game #language

On challenges of testing a sensor-based indoor positioning SDK. They've recorded a bunch of real sessions and found a way to use them instead of real sensor data for tests. @Dryupa is the author of the post. Long time ago he attended our very first offline peerlab ❤️

#android #sensor #test

Ein Volk, ein Standard, ein RCS! Google keeps pushing Apple towards fixing chatting with Android users via iMessage. This time they've made a funny video. Thanks to @dtrabo for the link.

#humor #google #apple

Can't even add anything here, the title pretty much speaks for itself: A one-sentence summary of each new JEP from JDK 21

#java #jdk

Men^W Humans will literally do anything instead of going to therapy. FLAT ORIGAMI IS TURING COMPLETE. Don't try to fully comprehend the paper, your sanity is much more important, just enjoy the little pieces.

#science #math #cs

I don't know what's going on with Google Testing Blog, maybe it's a code for "help, I've been kidnapped", but their position on readable code is somewhat controversial, to put it mildly. My man here has done an excellent analysis.

#google #code #refactoring

There's an old snippet on StackOverflow that converts byte count to a human-readable string. This snippet became rather popular and ended up in many codebases. And of course it had bugs.

#bug #stackoverflow #history

Complaining about YAML is a good tone. This page covers many of its quirks once again. And here someone works on a strange alternative.

#yaml #format #rant

There's been a lot of Bun hype in JS community lately. It's marketed as a faster all-in-one node alternative. Here you'll find a deliberate post about why it's not all that great.

#js #rant #talk

No insane hacks or venomous vulnerabilities here, just some guy weren't able to access internet on a Southwest flight and decided to check what data he can get from Wi-Fi portal.

#wifi #network #aviation

Great job on highlighting the problems of editing text on mobile. I've always struggled with it. In case you're not in the mood for reading, just watch this demo of the approach they propose.

#text #keyboard #mobile

New post by Nikita Tonsky about unicode, UTF-8, etc. Great job as always! Highly recommend to read it.

#text #encoding #unicode

It's hard to say what this talk is about. Let me sum it up like this: "there's a lot of complexity in tech around us, we're all struggling, don't worry, it's okay to understand only a part of the whole thing".

#talk #tool #programming

One more funny talk, only 10m this time, check it out: Where Does My Computer Get the Time From

#talk #time

Wow! It's like Game of Life, but a bit more nuts! Works on CUDA. Watch a beautiful demo here. Code is on Github.

#game #art #gpu

A nice dive into how one of the simple versions of CRDT works.

#cs #network #datastructure