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Had to rebuild the blog again due to a roadblock of old dependencies. Why do we do this to ourselves?
Optimistic UIs are full of little lies that attempt to make the web feel more responsive and real-time. The truth can be predicted. Most of the time.
It's hard to build cloud-synced collaborative apps if you genuinely care about user privacy. Most apps are not private by default by design. They should be.
Pain is relative. Things are getting better.
It sometimes feels inevitable that code over time will eventually break itself, but this isn't quite true.
I always found Twitter less of a burden than other networks, with higher signal to noise.
I've not played many gigs this year, so I've not spent as much time practicing as I did last year.
Testing Android applications has a reputation for being more difficult than it should be. Testing plain Java code on the other hand should be relatively easy.
I’ve been developing for Android on and off for just over a year now.
There’s something in this idea of building things for yourself.
Towards the end of February—just over 4 months ago—I installed Android Studio and set out trying to build my first Android app.
A big collection of resources, tutorials and libraries I found useful for getting started quickly with Android.
Some of the reasons I’ve decided to start learning Android development instead of doubling down on JavaScript and the open web.