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The Kotless Serverless Framework provides desired functionality for the Kotlin ecosystem. A couple months ago I wrote an article about an idea for Kotlin “Server-less” Functions. Unbeknownst to me, JetBrains was working on a similar project called Kotless. While not precisely what I had envisioned, this project does seem promising. For more information about Kotless, […]
Author: Perry Romanowski Published: December 30, 2019 Happy New Year! We take a look at some of the hottest trends in the beauty industry in 2019 including clean beauty, CBD, Indie beauty and waterless beauty. Then we give our predictions for the hottest trends coming in 2020. We’ll get back to answering beauty questions in […]
In the first part of this series, I discussed some of the core concepts surrounding embedded Linux, with the ultimate goal of empowering you to be able to build inexpensive embedded Linux systems. This part will look at some of the many, many devices you can use to develop with. I’ll also discuss some of […]
Kotlin, by design, doesn’t allow a non-null variable to be left uninitialised during its declaration. To get past this issue, Kotlin’s lateinit allows us to declare a variable first and then initialise it some point in the future during our program’s execution cycle. The concept is simple, but when we try to access an uninitialised property, it’s […]
It’s the last podcast of the decade and we’re looking back on the 2010s, and 2019, and looking ahead to 2020. What were the biggest tech fails of 2019? What were the best apps? What were the best games? And what will 5G look like in 2020? It’s exciting and it’s all here on the […]
In the previous article we detailed our test framework implementation. This was a high level look at the approach we take to running our tests. However, many small details have been added to the framework in order to make it as stable as possible. This article details the most important ones. A constant battle with […]
As iOS developers, a lot of our work involves taking models from a server, and transforming them to be displayed on an iPhone or iPad. This sounds like a job for some declarative architecture. 🤔 If you ask 3 programmers how to define MVVM, expect to get 7 different responses. — ✨ Joe Fabisevich™ ✨ […]
If you haven’t checked out Part I, I recommend reading it because if you don’t, none of writing below will make sense! Three Unanswered Questions 1. What happens when the views you want to configure are more complex? My recommended approach is to construct a one-time use struct, specifically for displaying in that one place. […]
During my time on the React team, I’ve been lucky to see how Jordan, Sebastian, Sophie and other tenured team members approach problems. In this post, I’m distilling what I learned from them into a few high-level technical principles. These principles aren’t meant to be exhaustive. This is my personal attempt to formalize observations about […]
On today’s episode we’re going to be answering your beauty questions about Quality of ingredients versus price of the product? The Curly Girl Method and Parabens? What it’s like to work in the cosmetics industry Do you have to wait after applying Vitamin C? Beauty Science News stories Is your old makeup is contaminated? Here’s […]