20 random bookmarks
@msfjarvis@androiddev.social's personal link log, mostly revolving around tech and tech-adjacent culture.
@msfjarvis@androiddev.social's personal link log, mostly revolving around tech and tech-adjacent culture.
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.
How to create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them
Explore an archive of Doom ports showcasing how the game has been adapted to run on various devices, even those not originally intended for gaming.
Debugging Gradle tasks can be challenging, especially when you have no access to tools like Develocity or need to work offline. This post shares a couple of strategies to help you gain more insight into your Gradle build.
Or would you?
A retrospective post about how #Balatro came to be, straight from its creator. Very helpful knowledge for budding game devs to learn the process behind having their own indie hit!
Insightful post from Hillel Wayne exploring how to apply the Hierarchy of Hazard Controls they learned about from a mechanical engineer to a contrived example in programming.
Today I learned that Firefox started as an act of protest from Mozilla engineers who hated the bloated product they were being forced to create
Super interesting look into the #Steam discovery queue system and the impact it has on your game's visibility on the platform
Super interesting deep dive into why the Android calculator app is so much better than iOS', and the incredible amount of work Hans Boehm put into making it so. I have never been more interested in calculators than reading this post!
The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.
Some tips from P-Y to write handy utilities for enums like ensuring entries are sorted or that they have unique labels, in a generic fashion.
Timezones are insane
A great summary of a paper that analyzed how medical professionals teach themselves to work around security hygiene that prevents them from doing their job. It's a great look into how people working on securing systems often overlook the day to day reality of how these systems are operated.
Just beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.