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Two meta-skills that help a programmer grow more than just practicing their coding. Thinking about thinking, and focusing on focusing. — Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) July 26, 2017 How To Think About Thinking and Focus on Focus Don’t focus on finding the perfect to-do list app. Once found, you still have to light the spark […]
This is a blog post by Jasdev Singh, originally published on jasdev.me. I’m re-posting here since it’s directly tied to me taking over his project, Public Extension. Firing off the first tweet for @PublicExtension on October 9th, 2015 was a rush. I was on the tail end of my batch at the Recurse Center, after […]
Andrew: Hey, everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, and I’m struggling with something. This interview is not like usual interviews that I do. Usually, you guys know, I interview entrepreneurs about the step by step, where they got their ideas, […]
Every day at a startup is an exercise in getting to tomorrow. Some days it’s easier, some days it’s harder, but if you don’t make it until tomorrow, there won’t be a next week, month, or year. This is why building a long-term foundation is incredibly important. If you keep making it to tomorrow without […]
Do you know what’s common between the blinking cursor, hyperlinks and text highlighting in TextViews? They’re all implemented using spans. Spans are tiny objects that Android uses heavily across the framework. If you’ve worked with text styling such as bold or italics, then you’re already familiar with the basic usages of spans. But they are […]
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post, I guess in general, but also a blog post about video games. Video games are probably the single thing most attributable to my career as a programmer, and everything else I’ve done professionally after that. I still feel video games are one of the best […]
The Colorado Springs Gazette just did a nice feature article about BombBomb, the place where I write apps these days. The best part (for me) is that the lead photo shows Conor McCluskey (our CEO) showing off an iMessage extension I wrote for the company’s app. Source link
Instagram prides itself on having a lean app. But as the number of engineers and features grows, so do the challenges to size. We start to face issues like: increase in application size downloaded from an app store increase in cold start time, and more generally, increased time to interaction with different surfaces inside the […]
The Instagram community is bigger and more diverse than ever before. 800m people now visit every month, 80% of whom are outside of the United States. As the community grows, it becomes more and more important that our app can withstand diverse network conditions, a growing variety of devices, and non-traditional usage patterns. The client […]
I have a love/hate relationship with regular expressions. I love them because they’re great for examining text to find useful information and, often, to change the text in some way. I hate them because once you get beyond basic matching, they descend into bizarre write-only code that gives me flashbacks to my days writing Perl. […]