Balancing Engineering Ambition with Product Realism Introduction In July of 2023, Etsy’s App Updates team, responsible for the Updates feed in Etsy’s mobile apps, set off with an ambitious goal: to revamp the Updates tab to become Deals, a home for a shopper’s coupons and sales, in time for Cyber Week 2023. The Updates tab […]
The Swift website provides nightly builds of the Swift compiler (called toolchains) for download. Building with a nightly compiler can be useful if you want to check if a bug has already been fixed on main, or if you want to experiment with upcoming language features such as Embedded Swift, as I’ve been doing lately. […]
This article first appeared in Inc. Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build […]
This article documents how I created my own custom screen saver for macOS, built almost entirely in Kotlin, using the powers of Kotlin Multiplatform to target macOS. The inspiration for this project was the KotlinConf 2023 idle video, which had Kotlin’s logos through the ages bouncing around the screen, in the style of classic DVD […]
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The event will offer a driving experience for owners of Ferrari’s first ever supercar in the stunning surroundings of the Italian Dolomites between October 1st and 5th 2024. The Ferrari GTO event is the second edition of the Legacy Tour, following up on the F40-themed maiden outing in 2023. The F40 Legacy Day event saw […]
Sketch Renders and photos from the design development process of the Rolls-Royce Arcadia Droptail one-off. Check the article here. Source link
Software engineering book recommendations The following is a list of software engineering books I’ve read that I felt had a strong and lasting positive impact on my career. It’s not a list of everything I enjoyed (that would be impossible to list down), but rather a special list of resources that taught/helped me so much […]
This is a library that allows pure Java / Kotlin modules or libraries using SLF4J as their logging framework to bridge on the Google Android platform in combination with Jake Wharton’s Timber logging utility. It’s based on the patrickfav/slf4j-timber project with a modern take using Kotlin and the latest version of SLF4J (currently v2.0.6). Usage […]
The talk, in English, will be held at the IAAD. headquarters in Corso Regio Parco, 15 – Turin, starting at 6:30 PM local time. The event will be accessible to a limited number of enthusiasts and students from other universities and institutions. Admission is free but registration is mandatory. “9649 Design Talks” is the first […]