December 2023 Reading List

Every minute a good article pops up on the world wide web. There are so many of them that no one can ever read ’em all, so I personally rely on mailing lists and community digests to filter it down to the most important writings.

Here’s some stuff that caught my attention in the last months of 2023. Some of it isn’t new at all, but first got on my radar just recently.

Share this blog post if you like this digest, let me know which articles you liked the most, and I’ll continue writing this series.

Read it later

Writing to think

The article, which inspired me to write more for my blog, and also finally commence this series.

How Lego builds a new Lego set

I’ve already shared that I’m a huge Lego fan. No surprise, I enjoyed the article on The Verge with a peek behind the scenes of the creative process.

Google OAuth is broken (sort of)

Sometimes pretty serious security holes are trivial to exploit.

Terrapin Attack

SSH is also vulnerable, however, its severity is low because it should be a MITM attack with many prerequisites. The in-depth description of the vulnerability by Ars Technica is also worth reading.

Hardware microphone disconnect

Good to know: MacBooks physically disconnect microphones when the lid is closed.

App of the Month

Velja

A simple yet powerful browser picker. I wanted to write my own, but discovered this. It works exactly like I want it.

Be sure to check out other apps made by Sindre Sorhus. There’s a lot of them.

GitHub Highlight of the Month

JetBrains/jewel

Earlier this year Sebastiano Poggi and Chris Sinco of Google gave a talk about the Jewel Compose Multiplatform library at DroidCon.

Fun fact about the library: it was yours truly who gave it the name and made the initial commit in the internal Git repository. Unfortunately, our ways parted shortly after. Jewel was introduced in the JetBrains Toolbox App, but quickly outgrew it. Its reincarnation in the Toolbox is now called Crystal.

Once upon a time on Wikipedia

Ship of Theseus

I’m fascinated by the philosophical concept of Ship of Theseus. The Wikipedia article has been edited 1792 times since its introduction in 2003, and no single phrase from the original edition remains.

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