A bunch of quotes from respectable programmers from the Coders at Work book.

#book #programming

Outstanding bug! Someone has spotted a ~49.7 days period in the count of used CPU cores. Spoiler: integer overflow. Go read what has actually happenned!

#time #programming #bug

@Harmonizr has dove into investigation: why on Earth does ripple refuse to round it's corners? Check out his journey log on twitter.

#drawable #bug

Frightening yet very interesting overview of different problems you will face trying to adapt your product to different languages.

#language #localization

Epic fuckup: ads network was installing apps directly to users' devices using certain system-level apps, even when the users tried to close the ad banner. Highly recommend to check the post and the comments.

#vulnerability #cybersec #ads

In this post author reasons about how does it happen that developers pass novice and advanced beginner levels in terms of dreyfus model, then reach expert beginner and stop learning.

#developer #learning

Check out this post on building a type safe bundleOf function. The bundleOf part here looks to me like we're trying to solve an imaginary problem, but the trick itself is kind of nice.

#bundle #type

There are many peculiarities in our line of work. This here is an attempt to parse XML with regular expressions. You can look at it like it's a regex deep dive, but I prefer to just stare and silently become horrified.

#regex #xml

Mike @Harmonizr never stops sharing awesome things with us. Rounded corners for bottom sheet? Or no? Just check out the comment and scan through the thread.

#humor #design #material

Do you remember Android Asset Studio by Roman Nurik? Back in the day I've used that thing a lot. I'm curious, does anyone use it these days? So, there's a new project by Roman: IconKitchen, app icon generator. Check it out.

#icon #design

TIL: Sleep sort. For an array of length N we can launch N tasks that'll sleep for some time (based on the sorting key) and then emit their value. Wait for all tasks to finish and woohoo, we have a sorted array.

#humor #algorithm #sorting

Truly fascinating historical offtop: how did it happen that browsers pretend to be each other in User-Agent header. Looks like an out of control madness.

#browser #history

Latest droidcon videos are now available. Thanks to @mindw0rk for sharing the link.

#talk #event

Unbelievable! A resume with points like:
- Expert in JavaScript, ..., Mia Khalifa, ...
- Led team of 6 engineers to mine Ethereum on company servers
- Spread Herpes STD to 60% of intern team
was good enough for companies like Reddit, Dropbox, Atlassian and others.

#hr #interview #humor

What sort of sick madness is this? @ozodrukh shared this link: a lot of people are trying to figure out how to save Fragment state while using Navigation. Is it some kind of joke?

#fragment #navigation

A short post on crash that'll happen if we invoke startForegroundService and then it'll take us too long to invoke startForeground. This guy's solution is to wait for the main thread first and only then to launch the service.

#service #thread #crash

A short list of security-related things to keep in mind when we have to work with WebView.

#cybersec #webview

Offtop, but it's worth it, I promise.
In this post author explains why japanese web is so different and so outdated, compared to what we have here.

#design #localization

Talk about designing library API in Rust. Author shows how to implement something like Python's tqdm for CLI progress bars but in a more logical, restricting, and type-safe fashion. I've enjoyed it, hope you will as well.

#talk #rust #type

In Vietnam COVID pass system used weak cryptography, which allowed researchers to get private key (and ability to generate valid QR codes) using several AWS instances, 9 hours and $250. Factoring as a Service indeed.

#cybersec #vulnerability

Inspirational talk about hacks and tricks The Ancients used to run awesome and complex games on NES.
- How to save progress if all you have is a read-only storage?
- How to perform physics calculations if you don't have fractions or division?
- How to generate a random number if you don't have a generator?

#talk #gamedev