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.
A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
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.
For one of my network storage PC builds, I was looking for an alternative to Flatcar Container Linux and tried out NixOS again (after an almost 10 year break). There are many ways to install NixOS, and in this article I will outline how I like to install NixOS on physical hardware or virtual machines: over the network and fully declaratively.
Very neat explanation of how databases work hard to keep your data safe. I was surprised to learn about the failure mode of reading from page cache twice and the database convincing itself that the data has been written out even though it really hasn't.
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
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
The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.
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.
Beautifully written and illustrated video explaining shar's journey of creating a frog pond idler game
Great vulnerability research but the highlight is definitely the hand-crafted interactive mock ups of Google websites
Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.
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.