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Hi, We just open-sourced a project to learn Jetpack Compose for Android by Examples. Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI. Project Link: Jetpack-Compose-Android-Examples You will be learning: How to build UI using Jetpack Compose in Android? How to display a Text and apply various styles to a Text? How to display […]
Your browser does not support theaudio element. Download In episode 1 of Fragmented we talked about Testing. 200 episodes in, we decided it’s a good time to do a state of the union for mobile testing. We talk with Valera Zakharov who’s a Staff Engineer at Slack and considered one of the experts in the […]
Your Money Working Harder ShareThis Over the last decade, the rising cost of new and used cars have driven up the amount of the average car loan. To make up for this, auto lenders have started offering longer car loans that let consumers borrow more with a lower monthly payment. The State of the Automotive […]
Wise Bread Picks A key financial decision people struggle to make is how to allocate savings for multiple financial goals. Do you save for several goals at the same time or fund them one-by-one in a series of steps? Basically, there are two ways to approach financial goal-setting: Concurrently: Saving for two or more financial […]
Book Review Author :Delia Owens Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher : GP Putnam’s Sons Year of Publication: 2019 Number of Pages: 368 My Rating : 4 out of 5 I picked this up with a bit of hesitation. In spite of the great reviews that it got, I must say the title made me expect something […]
HEY uses a branch deploy system that I’ve written about here on SvN and talked about frequently on Twitter. Plenty of other companies have implemented their own version of branch deploys (typically under a different name), but this was my own implementation, so I’m proud of it. First, a primer on how it works: Our […]
Earlier this year, we announced that Basecamp was committing to getting to carbon negative for our cumulative history and moving forward. Today, I want to share an update on that commitment. Note: I edited this post on Nov 5, 2020 to include the prices paid for all carbon offsets and explain a little more about the […]
Hey there! I had the pleasure to talk at Swift Heroes Digital on October 1, 2020. The talk “Scalable Modular iOS Architecture” is about the unfolding of a multi-year iOS vision at Just Eat, restructuring the whole app from the ground up to make it modular and global across various markets. I also covered some […]
Peeking at command-line ANSI escape sequences 28 October 2020 Command-line programs use color to convey additional information and to look pretty. For example, compare the output of ls with and without the –color flag: The color helps convey information in this compact output that would otherwise only be available in more verbose forms (-l). In […]
We’ve run a private security bug bounty program since 2014. Invited testers reported numerous security vulnerabilities to us, many of them critical. We investigated and fixed the vulnerabilities they reported and thanked them with cash rewards. Before 2014, and concurrently with the private bounty program, we ran a public “Hall of Fame” program where we […]