Răzvan Filea

22 • Self-taught programmer. Used to make MC Native Mods now I mainly make Android Apps • Kotlin • Jetpack Compose • C++ • Rust

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

Resource Pack Converter v2.0 is now out with support for 1.19 Resource Packs!
To download it join our Discord server:
https://t.co/x9flnm8mwj

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

Just logged back in after a really long time. Is anyone still here or can I safely delete my account?

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

Alright
All this bullshit of a platform is enough for me

[10x'er @10x_er]

how to be a low impact personality hire:

- take sick days close to deadlines
- come back and say “you’re catching up”
- burn another week by “recovering”
- updates need to include words like “scoping out” and “getting things setup”
- make sure to be the driver of small talk before all meetings

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[DHH @dhh]

This is Parkinson's Law squared. A manager with idle time on their hands will often fill it with work that pulls others off their tasks. Resist this mode for as long as humanely possible.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

Turns out, if you teach an entire generation of programmers to “never reinvent wheels”, you get an entire generation of programmers who are unable to invent new & better wheels, or who are incapable of maintaining the wheels that already exist

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

@Minecraft This is such a nice QoL! More games should have this

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

#linux #opensource

[@[email protected] @kdecommunity]

You heard Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all you art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

[1/3]

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

helloWorldFromCpp https://t.co/xyECsiFG4M

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

Couldn't agree more

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Sunday rant.

For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to free you up to think harder about the data structures to use, not leave things comically inefficient. This context is always skipped when it’s uttered.

Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature.

If you are in engineering, here is a fantastic anecdote. I refer to this account often. It’s a bit subtile, but the implications are massive-

It’s an account of how SQLite became 50% faster, not by doing one specific thing but hundreds of small ones.

SQLite is everywhere today because of this work.

https://t.co/krLFFps2up

We need the engineers in all companies fight for this more. Product leads are not the right owners of the end performance of the software. This needs to be encoded in the professional pride of the software engineering discipline. Leaders in companies need to encourage it and hold engineering accountable. It’s simply not ok to fritter away the performance of the products for random reasons.

Every user of your products cares exactly as much about latency as engineers do when typing in their terminal. They just don’t have the words to describe what they don’t like about the experience and neither should they.

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

@tomshardware Shifted completely to Linux
#noads

[@[email protected] @kdecommunity]

Look! No ads!

Take back control. Choose Plasma.

https://t.co/9GVT4YJ2UP

(Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: https://t.co/5vwJvCdnQg)

#Windows #Windows11 #Plasma6 #Microsoft

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.

@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"

[@[email protected] @kdecommunity]

Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more...

https://t.co/zEw1WjDbC7

#Plasma6

[Daniel Ek @eldsjal]

After sitting with our legal team to parse through the fine print of Apple's DMA announcement (that took a while), which is, at best vague and misleading, I wanted to share my thoughts. 

While Apple has behaved badly for years, what they did yesterday represents a new low, even for them. See more info here: https://t.co/2lznqwYujY

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Develop an app for Windows or macOS: compile, distribute single binary.

Develop an app for Linux: compile against 42 differing world states, support 27 year old shared libraries, distribute unique binary per permutation. Or, build everything static and get flamed. 🤕

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

@xtremepentest Team Linux

[Răzvan Filea @theluckycoder]

I just completed "Trebuchet?!" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2023 using Rust https://t.co/hmT6FPepBQ #AdventOfCode

[Signal @signalapp]

Announcing PQXDH! The first step in post-quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol, PQXDH protects your Signal calls & chats from potential future threats of breakthroughs in quantum computing. And it's already rolling out to Signal clients everywhere.

https://t.co/feHqLXGJBE