zsmb.coby Márton Braun15 Feb 2019
Retrofit meets coroutines 2019-02-15 • Márton Braun Jake Wharton’s retrofit2-kotlin-coroutines-adapter has been the go-to solution for bridging the coroutine world with Retrofit for a little while.
overreacted4 Feb 2019
Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks February 4, 2019 If you played with React Hooks for more than a few hours, you probably ran into an intriguing problem: using setInterval just...
overreacted26 Jan 2019
Why Isn’t X a Hook? January 26, 2019 Since the first alpha version of React Hooks was released, there is a question that keeps coming up in discussions: “Why isn’t <some other API> a Hook?” To...
zsmb.coby Márton Braun16 Jan 2019
Data classes aren't (that) magical 2019-01-16 • Márton Braun Any time someone is advertising Kotlin as the savior for Java developers, data classes are in the top 3 reasons they list, as being a...
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan5 Oct 2018
When people use Dank, one of the terms they use to describe it is fluid. The app makes a good use of motion to indicate changes on the screen, but I think one of my favorite reasons why the app...
Random Thoughts4 Oct 2018
.NET Core introduced FixedTimeEquals which I have personally found to be very helpful. It’s a small method, but given the kind of code I tend to write, I was writing it a lot from project to...
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan14 Sept 2018
When Google released Inbox for Android some 4 years ago, their UI was rad. I was obsessed with the navigation transition, where emails expanded from their list item when clicked, pushing all other...
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize19 Aug 2018
written and illustrated by Alania Caridad Hinckson ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A simple, heartwarming read-aloud story sure to become a comforting bedtime favorite.
Distillby Alexander Mordvintsev; Nicola Pezzotti; Ludwig Schubert; Chris Olah25 Jul 2018
A powerful, under-explored tool for neural network visualizations and art. Neural networks trained to classify images have a remarkable — and surprising! — capacity to generate images.
The Atomic Birdhouse25 Oct 2017
I have a love/hate relationship with regular expressions. I love them because they’re great for examining text to find useful information and, often, to change the text in some way.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan29 Jun 2017
While going through the codebase of a former client, I found that I was using four different ways for showing HTML on Android.
Distillby Gabriel Goh4 Apr 2017
Here’s a popular story about momentum [1, 2, 3]: gradient descent is a man walking down a hill. He follows the steepest path downwards; his progress is slow, but steady.
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize16 Jan 2017
by Sidura Ludwig ; illustrated by Sophia Vincent Guy ‧ RELEASE DATE: yesterday A quiet, loving introduction to a key Jewish holiday.
Jesse Shawl4 Jan 2017
Cacheing API Calls I recently made a few upgrades to updog.co which have decreased the Time To First Byte dramatically. Before: After: Wait, What?! How?!
The Atomic Birdhouse10 Nov 2016
Over the past year or so I’ve been trying out Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) as a possible alternative to Dropbox. It’s gradually improved to where I think I can rely on it.
The Atomic Birdhouse6 Nov 2016
This post is based on a lightning talk I gave at CocoaConf San Jose a couple of days ago. It’s that time of year– the time when summer time, or “Daylight Saving Time” as we for some reason call it...
Distillby Augustus Odena; Vincent Dumoulin; Chris Olah17 Oct 2016
When we look very closely at images generated by neural networks, we often see a strange checkerboard pattern of artifacts.
Saket Narayanby Saket Narayan11 Sept 2016
There are two ways of “linkifying” URLs in a TextView. First, as an XML attribute: <TextView ... android:autoLink="phone|web" /> and second, programmatically: TextView textView = (TextView)...
The Atomic Birdhouse4 Aug 2016
One of the cool things UIStackView can do for you is make it easy to dynamically update your app’s user interface while it’s running, with smooth animations and not a lot of code.
The Atomic Birdhouse25 Feb 2016
Just use NSDate, right? The obvious choice for handling dates in iOS and OS X apps is NSDate. It’s obvious, right? It’s got “date” right in its name, doesn’t it? And that’s the thing about NSDate.
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