December 2021 - Interesting reads

Read

• Inside the Log4j2 vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) https://blog.cloudflare.com/inside-the-log4j2-vulnerability-cve-2021-44228/
• Who never had to add a progress to an upload? This article goes through different way of doing it in an iterative manner https://dev.to/zsmb13/adventures-in-tracking-upload-progress-with-okhttp-and-retrofit-1gff
• An essay against the race of always reading / listening as fast / much as possible. I found it to be a good reminder for myself https://perell.com/essay/against-3x-speed/
• Slotting in with Compose UI https://chris.banes.dev/slotting-in-with-compose-ui/
• Perfectionism vs. Excellence https://hannesdorfmann.com/perfectionism-vs-excellence/

TIL

An easy way to clean up your local branches that have already been merged to master or develop. First, list them:

git branch --merged | grep -v '\*\|master\|develop'

If all is good and all those branches can be removed, proceed with the following:

git branch --merged | grep -v '\*\|master\|develop' | xargs -n 1 git branch -d

Watch

• Good overview on the types of feature flags and strategy on how to handle them https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/10/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-feature-toggles/
• Building hardware and communicating with it through an Android App https://www.droidcon.com/2021/11/10/printed-circuit-boards-and-android-a-love-story-between-two-engineering-disciplines/

Shortcut of the month (Intellij IDEA)

Switch easily between a class and its tests using CMD+SHITF+T!

Bonus

You might not like it but this is the most optimum layout for programming https://twitter.com/xssfox/status/1466178398414245891