For more than a decade I have been thundering against a lot of the bad practices that have permeated the software development industry, one such practice is to blindly trust code when using third party libraries, frameworks or packages. For about the …

dmitriid: After years of neglect Apple updated their Books.app on MacOS.

Tracking the James Webb Space Telescope

We are announcing an update to the Speedometer benchmark.

nikitonsky: When you have enough space for ellipsis but not enough for a single letter “e”

nikitonsky: The in-place popup might not be such a good idea if it gets in a way of using other controls

nikitonsky: Why the fuck is someone’s retweet in my notifications? I’ve seen it already in Home feed. What a mess, I have a feeling Twitter have no idea what they are doing, just showing random stuff in random places and hoping it’ll stick

dmitriid: LinkedIn, “the world’s largest professional network”, cannot even imagine that people may actually know when they start at a new company. And that this date may in fact be in the future.

JavaScript relies on garbage collection (GC) to reclaim memory.

JavaScript relies on garbage collection (GC) to reclaim memory.