20 random bookmarks
@msfjarvis@androiddev.social's personal link log, mostly revolving around tech and tech-adjacent culture.
2025-11-06
Game design is simple, actually
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actuallySo, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.
2025-11-04
JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective
purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspectiveDeep dive into how JVM exceptions are implemented on the compiler level
2025-09-12
links ~ glfmn.io
glfmn.io/linksGwen Lofman's living collection of links that has some incredibly good stuff.
2025-09-09
The Gentrification of Video Game History
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08aeVery well written post explaining the reality of gaming in the Global South and how the US-based media knowingly and unknowingly participates in its erasure.
2025-09-08
Series: Learning GPUI
blog.0xshadow.dev/series/learning-gpuiA work in progress tutorial for GPUI, Zed editor's underlying GUI framework.
2025-03-11
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1)
ploum.net/2024-10-20-20years-linux-desktop-part1.html2025-02-16
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."
chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-appSuper 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!
2025-02-08
Install NixOS on a Free Oracle Cloud VM
mtlynch.io/notes/nix-oracle-cloudOracle 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.
2025-02-07
Stifle Hungry Tasks using BuildService
www.liutikas.net/2025/02/06/Stifle-Hungry-Tasks.htmlGradle will always parallelize tasks to the maximum possible degree, which might not always be desirable when tasks have extreme memory and/or CPU usage and end up starving the whole build out. Aurimas shares a great trick with Gradle BuildServices that lets tasks have a maximum parallelism.
2025-02-01
Visualizing all books in ISBN space
phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-spaceHighly 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!
2024-12-07
Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuidThe creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.
2024-12-01
Kotlin trick: writing shared Enum utility code
whtwnd.com/p-y.wtf/entries/Kotlin trick: writing shared Enum utility codeSome 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.
2024-09-10
How to Monetize a blog
modem.io/blog/blog-monetizationAnything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.
2024-08-15
A font with built-in syntax highlighting
blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlightingSuper interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.
2024-07-05
"Technical" skills
sashalaundy.com/writing/technical-skillsGreat read on why the distinction between technical and non-technical folks is simply meant to be exclusionary, and whether the word holds any weight at all.
Kowloon Walled City: An Illustrated Guide
aftermath.site/kowloon-walled-city-cross-section-illustratedKinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.
2024-07-04
Generative AI, Which Is The Future Of Art, Cannot Draw A Map Of The United States
aftermath.site/generative-ai-map-of-the-united-states2024-07-02
On Burnout, Mental Health, And Not Being Okay
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/on-burnout-mental-health-and-not-being-okayJust beautifully written. I would recommend reading this even if you are in a good place mentally.