January 2022 - Interesting reads

Read

• Trashing legacy code is easy, understanding the reason is harder https://www.heltweg.org/posts/who-wrote-this-shit/
• The current state of Deno https://byteofdev.com/posts/deno/
• Finally an easier way to read and write files on Android? https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/s29x2i/update_on_modernstorage/
• Dark Web - Justice League https://analyst1.com/blog/dark-web-justice-league
• Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/hiring-a-diverse-engineering-team/
• Accountability in Software Development https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/accountability-in-software-development-375d42932813
• Fascinating details behind the strategy of Facebook and the Metaverse https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/30/facebooks-meta-mission-was-laid-out-in-a-2018-paper-on-the-metaverse.html
• Becoming a Better Writer in Tech https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/becoming-a-better-writer-in-tech/

TIL

Did you know about the find and replace functionality of Intellij IDEA that also supports regex? You can even go further with the structural search and replace! Good to know for the next time manual work is needed over hundreds of files. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-replace.html

Watch

• Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUmx-dlYS34

Shortcut of the month (Intellij IDEA)

CMD+E in the commit dialog will pop-up the last commit messages!

Bonus

• Fascinating video on the process of creating a game using real-world geographic data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLqXFF8mlEU