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Uniform list access with subscripts

Accessing values from an array using subscripts is a light and easy way to fetch list data. Kotlin brought uniformity in data access across regular arrays and Lists by allowing us to access data from a List using subscripts. But, what about our custom data models? Can they have subscripts if they mostly represent a […]

The Testaments

Book Review Author : Margaret Atwood Genre : Literary Fiction/Science Fiction and Fantasy Publisher : Penguin Random House Year of Publication : 2019 Number of Pages : 401 My Rating : 5 out of 5 This book is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. It is set fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s […]

What Is JavaScript Made Of? — overreacted

During my first few years of using JavaScript, I felt like a fraud. Even though I could build websites with frameworks, something was missing. I dreaded JavaScript job interviews because I didn’t have a solid grasp on fundamentals. Over the years, I’ve formed a mental model of JavaScript that gave me confidence. Here, I’m sharing […]

Data Structure and Algorithm applied to iOS

When asked about data structure and algorithm for an iOS development role, there is always this idea that it’s not a knowledge needed. Swift got already native data structure, right? Isn’t the rest only UI components? That’s definitely not true. Let’s step back and discuss about data structure and algorithm applied to iOS development. If […]

Strobist: SLC-0L-04: Red State, Blue State

To learn to create evocative light with flash, it helps to better understand how we experience the continuous light we see every day. To do that, you’ll need to wean yourself from auto white balance, and even to abandon familiar waypoints like your daylight WB preset. Because our goal is to learn to exist in […]

Modular iOS Architecture @ Just Eat

The journey we took to restructure our mobile apps towards a modular architecture. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog. Overview Modular mobile architectures have been a hot topic over the past 2 years, counting a plethora of articles and conference talks. Almost every big company promoted and discussed modularization publicly as a way […]

Avoiding fake italic and bold text on Android

Changing line heights in Android using LineHeightSpan has this ugly side-effect where the cursor ends up being very tall, extending till the full line height instead of just the text height. I’ve decided to go to extreme lengths to fix this over the next few days. For science. pic.twitter.com/2tWLvDq1rz — Saket Narayan (@Saketme) November 24, […]