20 random bookmarks

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

2025-09-21

87.

The day Return became Enter

aresluna.org/the-day-return-became-enter

A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

2025-08-28

81.

Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical

www.bowerbyte.com/posts/blocky-planet

Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.

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

2025-05-09

72.

Can It Run Doom? An Archive of All Known Ports

www.canitrundoom.org

Explore an archive of Doom ports showcasing how the game has been adapted to run on various devices, even those not originally intended for gaming.

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.

2025-04-23

69.

You wouldn't steal a font

fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

Or would you?

2025-03-11

63.

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1)

ploum.net/2024-10-20-20years-linux-desktop-part1.html

2025-03-07

62.

The Balatro Timeline

localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh

A retrospective post about how #Balatro came to be, straight from its creator. Very helpful knowledge for budding game devs to learn the process behind having their own indie hit!

2025-03-04

61.

The Hierarchy of Hazard Controls

www.hillelwayne.com/post/hoc

Insightful post from Hillel Wayne exploring how to apply the Hierarchy of Hazard Controls they learned about from a mechanical engineer to a contrived example in programming.

2025-02-20

58.

The origins of Firefox

vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114037556786892479

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

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

2025-02-16

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!

2024-12-07

46.

Writing down (and searching through) every UUID

eieio.games/blog/writing-down-every-uuid

2024-12-01

45.

Kotlin trick: writing shared Enum utility code

whtwnd.com/p-y.wtf/entries/Kotlin trick: writing shared Enum utility code

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.

2024-10-30

41.

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones

Timezones are insane

2024-09-10

30.

You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?

web.archive.org/web/20240910052425/https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/3647311-paper-you-want-my-p0

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.

2024-07-06

16.

Properly Testing Concurrent Data Structures

matklad.github.io/2024/07/05/properly-testing-concurrent-data-structures.html

2024-07-04

13.

Generative AI, Which Is The Future Of Art, Cannot Draw A Map Of The United States

aftermath.site/generative-ai-map-of-the-united-states

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.

2024-06-19

5.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again