Should I quit blogging?
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier24 Mar 2020
When I started this blog in 2012, it was at first to share solution to technical problem I encountered on my daily work, to give back to the community.
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top 12%Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton18 Mar 2020
18 March 2020 I want to remove Google as a single point of failure in my life. In the first blog post on this subject I detailed my setup for backing up Google Photos and Google Drive contents onto...
Coroutine Cancellation 101
zsmb.coby Márton Braun4 Mar 2020
Coroutine Cancellation 101 2020-03-04 • Márton Braun This article assumes that you already know the basics of coroutines, and what a suspending function is.
JSON vs Property Lists, Revisited
The Atomic Birdhouse3 Mar 2020
In a previous post I wrote about How JSON compares to Apple property lists and the obstacles to converting data between them. That was a while ago but the post is still accurate, as far as it goes.
Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton19 Feb 2020
19 February 2020 I want to remove Google as a single point of failure in my life. They have two decades of my email. They have two decades of my photos.
Migrating our component library to the Material Button
Overflow - Buffer Resourcesby Joe Birch14 Feb 2020
Header Photo by Pearse O’Halloran on Unsplash For our Android clients we have a small component library which is used to shared common visual elements across the different Android applications that...
Extracting 100% of Data From a Stubborn, Dying ZFS Pool – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton12 Feb 2020
12 February 2020 In 2010 I built a home server with five 2TB drives. It ran Solaris and ZFS for the redundancy and data checksumming to ensure no data could be lost or corrupted.
Android Live Regions
Mobile A11yby a11y@mobilea11y.com (Mobile A11y)11 Feb 2020
Live Regions are one of my favourite accessibility features on Android. They’re a super simple solution to a common accessibility problem that people with visual impairments can stumble across.
Start your A/B testing journey with SwiftUI
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier10 Feb 2020
Start your A/B testing journey with SwiftUI Last year, I shared a solution to tackle A/B testing on iOS in swift.
95%-ile isn't that good
Dan Luu7 Feb 2020
Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist.
Learn How to Light.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)6 Feb 2020
Hot-Shoe Go-To: The Godox TT600 How best to put this? The Godox TT600 is, objectively, a screaming bargain.
Localization with SwiftUI, how to preview your localized content
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier19 Jan 2020
Localization with SwiftUI, how to preview your localized content With SwiftUI being recently introduced, I was curious if we could take advantage of SwiftUI preview to speed up testing localization...
Better logging with Emoji
The Atomic Birdhouse17 Jan 2020
Apple’s developer tools provide a rich variety of debugging aids. Sometimes though, it’s useful to do things the old fashioned way.
SwiftUI - What has changed in your MVVM pattern implementation
Benoit Pasquierby Benoit Pasquier12 Jan 2020
SwiftUI - What has changed in your MVVM pattern implementation Introduced in 2019, Apple made UI implementation much simpler with With SwiftUI its UI declarative framework.
Goodbye, Clean Code — overreacted
overreacted11 Jan 2020
Goodbye, Clean Code January 11, 2020 It was a late evening. My colleague has just checked in the code that they’ve been writing all week.
Kotlin Inject
Chris Keenan Codesby Christopher Keenan9 Jan 2020
TL;DR Inject is a new Kotlin multi-platform library that is a wrapper around the javax.inject annotations so that they can be used in Kotlin common code.
The Woman in the Window
Wokereadby Wokeread31 Dec 2019
Book Review Author : A. J. Finn Genre : Psychological Thriller Publisher : Harper Collins Published : January 2018 Number of Pages : 390 My Rating : 5 out of 5 The Woman in the Window is a...
MISS MORTON TAKES THE WATERS | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors22 Dec 2019
by Catherine Lloyd ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An entertaining read with plenty of motives, diverse characters, and an enjoyable look at Victorian-era Bath.
POST MORTEM | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Finalists About the Kirkus Prize22 Dec 2019
by David Lagercrantz ; translated by Ian Giles ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 25, 2026 A well-plotted tale with echoes of Sherlock Holmes.
On let vs const — overreacted
overreacted22 Dec 2019
On let vs const December 22, 2019 My previous post included this paragraph: let vs const vs var: Usually you want let. If you want to forbid assignment to this variable, you can use const.