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.
Gwen Lofman's living collection of links that has some incredibly good stuff.
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.
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.
Oracle provides some incredibly powerful hardware for free and this post explains a very straightforward and easy to follow way to get set up with NixOS on their servers.
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.
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.
Simon Willison draws on his past experience working on event management websites to explain the real world problems that arise when you try to keep time for humans, along with actionable advice to minimize both your own and your users' suffering.
I've wanted to have consistent OpenGraph images for my website for a long time but did not want to involve any expensive-to-run services. The approach outlined here worked perfectly for what I needed.
Great vulnerability research but the highlight is definitely the hand-crafted interactive mock ups of Google websites
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.
Another great deep dive from the Netflix team on real-world problems they face as a primarily Java-oriented shop.
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.
Probably the most in-depth history of the events that led to the creation of Git by Linus. Great read!
Businesses prioritizing shareholder value over everything else seems to have become the norm, but I didn't know how this insane sounding behavior started and this is a great history lesson on it.