Rust 2021: tone down the fanboyism - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown·21 Apr 2021
Since a couple of years the Rust programming language core team has a tradition of publishing a survey and gather feedbacks about various aspects of the language and the community around it.
How to Successfully Hand Over Systems
SoundCloud Backstage Blog·20 Apr 2021
In a product company, changes are inevitable so as to best support the strategy and the vision. Often during such a change, new teams are formed and other ones are restructured.
Social coding platforms are poisoning the developer's experience - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown·19 Apr 2021
Or: How removing peoples' avatars surprisingly improved my productivity and reduced my mental strain.
Pi Practice App in Compose
zsmb.coby Márton Braun·18 Apr 2021
Pi Practice App in Compose 2021-04-18 • Márton Braun This article was originally planned for 🥧 Pi Day, and it clearly ran more than a month late. However, it’s finally complete!
Migrating from Burst to TestParameterInjector
Jake Whartonby Jake Wharton·15 Apr 2021
Migrating from Burst to TestParameterInjector Square’s Burst library burst onto the scene in 2014 stemming from general dissatisfaction with JUnit 4’s built-in parameterized runner.
Someone Took Out a Loan in Your Name. Now What?
Wise Breadby Kat Tretina·14 Apr 2021
Identity theft wears many different faces. From credit cards to student loans, thieves can open different forms of credit in your name and just like that, destroy your credit history and financial...
Update on beta testing payments in Signal
Signal Blog·13 Apr 2021
As the world stands today, the future of transaction privacy does not look great. The existing landscape is dominated by traditional credit companies, who over the past decade have been steadily...
Weight Banding
Distillby Michael Petrov; Chelsea Voss; Ludwig Schubert; Nick Cammarata; Gabriel Goh; Chris Olah·8 Apr 2021
Open up any ImageNet conv net and look at the weights in the last layer. You’ll find a uniform spatial pattern to them, dramatically unlike anything we see elsewhere in the network.
Integration verbosity and good layering – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton·7 Apr 2021
07 April 2021 One of my favorite non-features from building view binding is that it lacks integration with activities or fragments.
Laying Out Pages
Web Browser Engineering·5 Apr 2021
So far, layout has been a linear process that handles open tags and close tags independently. But web pages are trees, and look like them: borders and backgrounds visually nest inside one another.
Branch Specialization
Distillby Chelsea Voss; Gabriel Goh; Nick Cammarata; Michael Petrov; Ludwig Schubert; Chris Olah·5 Apr 2021
If we think of interpretability as a kind of “anatomy of neural networks,” most of the circuits thread has involved studying tiny little veins – looking at the small-scale, at individual neurons...
Your website is history
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes·5 Apr 2021
Your website is history Posted on Everything you put on your website is old. Every website is an archive. The web is a collective history. A tweet by Stephen Hay got me thinking about this subject.
Orange, Date & Avocado Salad + Big Love April — Green Kitchen Stories
Green Kitchen Storiesby Green Kitchen Stories·3 Apr 2021
Hey, hope all is well. We are out in our country house in the Stockholm Archipelago to enjoy Easter holiday but I wanted to post this recipe before citrus fruits are entirely out of season.
AssistedInject is dead, long live AssistedInject!
Jake Whartonby Jake Wharton·31 Mar 2021
AssistedInject is dead, long live AssistedInject! After ~5 years of existing and ~4 years as an open source project, our AssistedInject library has been deleted.
Core Data Backups, Redux
The Atomic Birdhouse·29 Mar 2021
This is the second of two posts following up on my earlier post about backing up and restoring Core Data.
Apple faces Indian engineer’s bias lawsuit - The Economic Times
Economic Timesby Bloomberg Follow us Share Font Size Abc Small Abc Medium Abc Large Save Print Comment·25 Mar 2021
Apple Inc. lost an early round in a discrimination lawsuit brought in the U.S. by a female engineer from India who says her two managers -- one from her country, the other from Pakistan -- treated...
Prime Table Generator in Jetpack Compose
zsmb.coby Márton Braun·25 Mar 2021
Prime Table Generator in Jetpack Compose 2021-03-25 • Márton Braun It’s been more than 6 years since I wrote an original version of this prime table generator.
Mostly Undocumented
The Atomic Birdhouse·25 Mar 2021
Last year I wrote about backing up and restoring Core Data. Recently Arnaud Joubay messaged me to ask about it. I used a method called migratePersistentStore(...) to duplicate a persistent store.
Fleeceware apps scam $400 million out of unsuspecting users
Cult of Androidby Cult of Mac·24 Mar 2021
Fleeceware apps scam $400 million out of unsuspecting users Applications that trick users into paying huge subscription fees raked in over $400 million from the Apple App Store and Google Play...
Test Your App's Accessibility with Evinced
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)·24 Mar 2021
Disclosure: Evinced has paid for my time in writing this blog, and I have provided them feedback on the version of their tool reviewed and an early beta.
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