20 random bookmarks

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

2025-09-12

86.

links ~ glfmn.io

glfmn.io/links

Gwen Lofman's living collection of links that has some incredibly good stuff.

2025-03-11

65.

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)

ploum.net/2025-03-08-linux_desktop3.html

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.

60.

Avoid the nightmare bicycle

www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/03/03/the-nightmare-bicycle

Short and to the point post about designing things with a little trust in your users to intuit a relatively easy model rather than papering over the slightest complexity with things that erase the mental model of the underlying concepts.

2025-02-08

53.

Install NixOS on a Free Oracle Cloud VM

mtlynch.io/notes/nix-oracle-cloud

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.

2025-01-14

49.

Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

blog.gitbutler.com/why-is-git-autocorrect-too-fast-for-formula-one-drivers

Fun dive into the history of Git's autocorrect feature

2024-12-31

48.

Raymond Chen's 2024 linklog

devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241231-01?p=110698

A great round up of interesting stuff, mostly centered around C++

2024-12-14

47.

JVM Anatomy Quirks

shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks

An ongoing mini-series documenting specific, often niche parts of the JVM. They're all pretty short and to the point, and the author encourages to treat them as chapters in a book as they reference each other quite often.

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.

2024-11-29

44.

Storing times for human events

simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/storing-times-for-human-events

Simon Willison draws on his past experience working on event management websites to explain the real world problems that arise when you try to keep time for humans, along with actionable advice to minimize both your own and your users' suffering.

2024-10-06

40.

Generating OpenGraph images for Hugo sites at build time

aarol.dev/posts/hugo-og-image

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.

2024-09-19

32.

Using YouTube to steal your files

lyra.horse/blog/2024/09/using-youtube-to-steal-your-files

Great vulnerability research but the highlight is definitely the hand-crafted interactive mock ups of Google websites

2024-08-15

26.

A font with built-in syntax highlighting

blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-highlighting

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

2024-08-01

25.

A Story About Jessica

harihareswara.net/posts/2024/a-story-about-jessica-by-swiftonsecurity

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.

2024-07-30

24.

Java 21 Virtual Threads - Dude, Where’s My Lock?

netflixtechblog.com/java-21-virtual-threads-dude-wheres-my-lock-3052540e231d

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

2024-07-10

19.

How Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras

edition.cnn.com/2024/07/09/business/airbnb-hidden-camera-invs/index.html

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.

2024-07-06

17.

The history of Git

blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git

Probably the most in-depth history of the events that led to the creation of Git by Linus. Great read!

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

2024-07-01

10.

The Shareholder Supremacy

www.wheresyoured.at/tss

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.

2024-06-10

3.

So you want to build a browser engine

robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html