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.
Deep dive into how JVM exceptions are implemented on the compiler level
So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover theyve ever had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed. You could be the best workplace theyve ever had, with challenging work, rewards…
A historical publication written during the early 1940s amid World War II, "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" serves as a unique historical artifact that illustrates grassroots resistance efforts and the belief in the collective power of ordinary people during wartime.
A work in progress tutorial for GPUI, Zed editor's underlying GUI framework.
A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
How to create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them
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.
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!
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
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!
Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature
SwiftOnSecurity wrote this in 2014, about a fictional teenager named Jessica and how general purpose computing let her down. Must read for everyone in tech.
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.
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.