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

A work in progress tutorial for GPUI, Zed editor's underlying GUI framework.

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

Great post explaining how the software engineering industry has been walking into a potential labor collapse by alienating junior engineers.

How to create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them

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.

Some clever tricks you can employ to salvage an essentially un-salvageable machine. I learned a lot of new things from this!

Super interesting look into the #Steam discovery queue system and the impact it has on your game's visibility on the platform

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

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!

Highly interactive and beautiful view of some 100,000 books, it's hard for me to describe what makes it so great to me. Seeing is believing!

Great read on the state of the AI industry post the release of DeepSeek R1, which has shattered the idea of AI training only being available to the biggest players in the field.

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

A great round up of interesting stuff, mostly centered around C++

An ongoing mini-series documenting specific, often niche parts of the JVM. They're all pretty short and to the point, and the author encourages to treat them as chapters in a book as they reference each other quite often.

Great write up on password hashing techniques and their pros and cons

Airbnb has always felt sketchy about how they try to avoid responsibility for hosts but the deposition sheds light on just how deep this runs. Turns out not even sexual assault perpetrators are deemed as unsafe enough to be banned from being hosts on Airbnb.

Kinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.

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