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

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

Timezones are insane

A great summary of a paper that analyzed how medical professionals teach themselves to work around security hygiene that prevents them from doing their job. It's a great look into how people working on securing systems often overlook the day to day reality of how these systems are operated.

A somewhat dated but still quite useful list of things to look out for when diving into building distributed systems

A great read about a bunch of smart hackers who converged around the One Million Checkboxes game and started hiding secret messages inside it, their eventual discovery by the game's creator and everything they accomplished while the game was still up. Honestly made me a tiny bit emotional.

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.

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.

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.

Kinda wild to me that such a city could ever have existed outside the pages of Science Fiction.

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

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.

Being able to make slides with Compose sounds fun!