20 random bookmarks

@msfjarvis@androiddev.social's personal link log, mostly revolving around tech and tech-adjacent culture.

2025-11-04

91.

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspective

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

2025-09-08

82.

Series: Learning GPUI

blog.0xshadow.dev/series/learning-gpui

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

2025-08-10

78.

Mary Poppendieck's The Tyranny Of The Plan

chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of-the-plan

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

2025-06-20

77.

NixOS, Gitea/Forgejo, and Catppuccin

d.moonfire.us/blog/2023/05/13/nixos-gitea-forgejo-and-catppuccin

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

2025-03-22

66.

When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via ssh

tinyhack.com/2022/09/16/when-you-deleted-lib-on-linux-while-still-connected-via-ssh

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

2025-03-04

61.

The Hierarchy of Hazard Controls

www.hillelwayne.com/post/hoc

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.

60.

Avoid the nightmare bicycle

www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/03/03/the-nightmare-bicycle

Short and to the point post about designing things with a little trust in your users to intuit a relatively easy model rather than papering over the slightest complexity with things that erase the mental model of the underlying concepts.

2025-02-15

54.

The hardest working font in Manhattan

aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan

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

2025-02-01

51.

Visualizing all books in ISBN space

phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space

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!

2024-12-31

48.

Raymond Chen's 2024 linklog

devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241231-01?p=110698

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

2024-12-14

47.

JVM Anatomy Quirks

shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks

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.

2024-09-19

32.

Using YouTube to steal your files

lyra.horse/blog/2024/09/using-youtube-to-steal-your-files

Great vulnerability research but the highlight is definitely the hand-crafted interactive mock ups of Google websites

2024-09-10

31.

How to Monetize a blog

modem.io/blog/blog-monetization

Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.

2024-08-30

28.

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes

A great read about a bunch of smart hackers who converged around the One Million Checkboxes game and started hiding secret messages inside it, their eventual discovery by the game's creator and everything they accomplished while the game was still up. Honestly made me a tiny bit emotional.

2024-07-26

22.

Restic Backups on NixOS

www.arthurkoziel.com/restic-backups-b2-nixos

Super simple and straightforward guide to setting up backups on your NixOS machine via https://restic.net

2024-07-10

19.

How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras

edition.cnn.com/2024/07/09/business/airbnb-hidden-camera-invs/index.html

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.

2024-07-06

16.

Properly Testing Concurrent Data Structures

matklad.github.io/2024/07/05/properly-testing-concurrent-data-structures.html

2024-07-05

14.

Kowloon Walled City: An Illustrated Guide

aftermath.site/kowloon-walled-city-cross-section-illustrated

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

2024-07-04

13.

Generative AI, Which Is The Future Of Art, Cannot Draw A Map Of The United States

aftermath.site/generative-ai-map-of-the-united-states

2024-06-17

4.

Are we really engineers (Part 1)

www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers