So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.

Deep dive into how JVM exceptions are implemented on the compiler level

Miscellaneous collection of blogposts from people who had to debug some really strange computers.

Transcript of Mary Poppendieck's landmark presentation titled "The Tyrrany Of The Plan"

A sweet and simple guide for declarative integration of the Catppuccin themes for Gitea/Forgejo on a NixOS host.

Or would you?

A great interview with Chris Person of Aftermath, who has over the course of the past 2 years has become something of a VHS decoding savant

A great essay diving into an obscure font that is present all over New York City, and tracing its history all the way back to physical milling presses in the early 1900s. Both the information and its presentation are top notch

Gradle will always parallelize tasks to the maximum possible degree, which might not always be desirable when tasks have extreme memory and/or CPU usage and end up starving the whole build out. Aurimas shares a great trick with Gradle BuildServices that lets tasks have a maximum parallelism.

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

Timezones are insane

Super interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.

SwiftOnSecurity wrote this in 2014, about a fictional teenager named Jessica and how general purpose computing let her down. Must read for everyone in tech.

Great read on why the distinction between technical and non-technical folks is simply meant to be exclusionary, and whether the word holds any weight at all.

Just beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.