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Resources | Mobile A11y

This is a personally curated list of resources I have used and think others may find helpful too. I’m always looking for new high quality mobile accessibility and inclusion resources to add here. Please share any you find with me via email or Twitter. Code Android iOS Adopting Voice Control A great, concise, overview on […]

Writing clean models using extensions

Models in Kotlin with data classes are already leaner and cleaner than their Java counterparts. Abstracting away all those getters, setters, toString() and copy() method with a single keyword makes our models reflect the only thing they should be concerned about — holding data. As I was exploring Swift for a project, I came across […]

Joker Cinematographer On Light & Color

Watching the movie Joker, I felt repeatedly that I was watching a film that Greg Heisler could have lit. The use of color was unique, sophisticated and fearless — almost a character unto itself. In this outstanding 15-minute short produced by Vanity Fair, Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher dissects his own use of light and color […]

Review: Accessibility for Everyone – Laura Kalbag

Laura’s introduction to web accessibility jumped out to me because it’s available as an audiobook. Being dyslexic I struggle to read, so prefer to listen to audiobooks where available. Unfortunately, most technical books aren’t available as audiobooks for a couple of potentially obvious reasons. Hearing code or descriptions of diagrams and illustrations read aloud may […]

A11y is not accessible | Mobile A11y

Accessibility is a long word. It’s not the simplest of words to read or to spell, so it seems like a word that would be a good candidate for abbreviation. The common abbreviation of accessibility is a11y. We take the A and Y from the beginning and end of accessibility, and 11 for the number […]

Become A Tennis Improvement Machine – Essential Tennis Podcast #338 | Essential Tennis Podcast – Instruction, Lessons, Tips

Do you truly have what it takes to reach your next level of tennis? Today’s special guest, Bob Litwin, shares what he has discovered during his incredible journey from losing every national level match for over three years to winning 25 US National Championships, becoming ranked #1 in the world and many more impressive accomplishments. […]

A Smart Feature Flagging System for iOS

How the iOS team at Just Eat built a scalable open-source solution to handle local and remote flags. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog. Overview At Just Eat we have experimentation at our heart, and it is very much dependent on feature flagging/toggling. If we may be so bold, here’s an analogy: feature […]