Today I learned that Firefox started as an act of protest from Mozilla engineers who hated the bloated product they were being forced to create

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

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

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++

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.

Beautifully written and illustrated video explaining shar's journey of creating a frog pond idler game

Timezones are insane

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.

Super interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.

Another great deep dive from the Netflix team on real-world problems they face as a primarily Java-oriented shop.

Surprisingly bullshit-free breakdown of all the considerations that went into creating a brand new front page carousel component for the JioCinema apps.

Great read on understanding the incentives behind software development.

Great 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.