20 random bookmarks
@msfjarvis@androiddev.social's personal link log, mostly revolving around tech and tech-adjacent culture.
@msfjarvis@androiddev.social's personal link log, mostly revolving around tech and tech-adjacent culture.
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.
Deep dive into how JVM exceptions are implemented on the compiler level
Gwen Lofman's living collection of links that has some incredibly good stuff.
Very 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.
A work in progress tutorial for GPUI, Zed editor's underlying GUI framework.
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!
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.
Gradle 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.
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!
The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.
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.
Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.
Super interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.
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.