20 random bookmarks

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

2025-10-29

90.

Debugging Stories

github.com/danluu/debugging-stories

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

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.

2025-08-28

80.

Frame of preference

aresluna.org/frame-of-preference

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

2025-08-27

79.

Forklifts Require Training

www.zacsweers.dev/forklifts-require-training

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

2025-06-13

76.

Teaching Tech Together

teachtogether.tech/en/index.html

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

2025-05-01

71.

Escape (de)Velocity - Artisanal Debugging of Tasks

www.liutikas.net/2025/05/01/Escape-Velocity.html

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.

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!

2025-03-11

64.

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 2)

ploum.net/2024-12-16-linux_desktop2.html

2025-02-20

57.

What is the post launch Discovery Queue – How To Market A Game

howtomarketagame.com/2025/02/19/what-is-the-post-launch-discovery-queue

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

2025-02-19

56.

Someone has to save the Film and TV that Studios won't

aftermath.site/ricky-jay-defector-archive-preservation

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

2025-02-16

55.

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."

chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

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!

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!

2025-01-28

50.

DeepSeek: The Greatest Growth Hack of All Times meets its David in a Chinese Quant

centreforaileadership.org/resources/deepseeks_narrative_attack

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.

2025-01-14

49.

Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

blog.gitbutler.com/why-is-git-autocorrect-too-fast-for-formula-one-drivers

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

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.

2024-11-28

42.

Beyond Bcrypt

soatok.blog/2024/11/27/beyond-bcrypt

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

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.

2024-07-05

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.

2024-07-02

11.

On Burnout, Mental Health, And Not Being Okay

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/on-burnout-mental-health-and-not-being-okay

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