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Building a gesture driven Reddit app

An exploratory talk that showcases how Android can deliver a beautiful experience to the user using material design principles and various framework APIs like gestures and spans. This talk walks the user through a collection of concrete examples of custom UI components and their implementations in my gesture driven Reddit app, Dank. Recreating Google Inbox’s […]

Fragrance Loophole vacation episode 186

Author: Perry Romanowski Published: June 14, 2019 We’re on vacation this week but instead of skipping the week we thought we’d give you some insight on the fragrance loophole and what it means from a cosmetic chemists and formulator’s perspective. Follow the Brains Thanks for listening. Hey if you get a chance can you go […]

Apple is Listening – Marco.org

June 9, 2019 ∞https://marco.org/2019/06/09/apple-is-listening Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017. They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user. The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs solved by […]

Making Direct Messages Reliable and Fast

Over the last few years, Instagram Direct has grown to be a core part of sharing content and experiences with your close friends on Instagram. This isn’t a privilege we take lightly; it’s incredibly important that we deliver each message as reliably and as quickly as possible. The Internet transfers data at the Speed of […]

An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot … fatter. While I think it’s irrational […]