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This article is a write-up of a talk I gave at MinneBar 2022. Instead of reading this, you could also watch the recording or view the slides. The title of this talk is “maintaining software correctness.” But what exactly do I mean by “correctness”? Let me set the scene with an example. Years ago, when […]
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This article tells the story of how Stream’s Android team refined our progress tracking process during file uploads in the Stream Chat Android SDK. Our original implementation to track file upload progress worked, but it had some in-code usability and UX issues that we wanted to clean up. The following account gives an up-close look […]
Within the Stream Chat Android SDK project, we use the Kotlin binary compatibility validator plugin to keep track of all the changes we make to our public API. This is a first-party plugin by JetBrains, though it’s still experimental (it’s an incubator project by JetBrains on GitHub). In this article, you’ll learn what the plugin […]
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android There are many paths to a career in technology. Shobana Krishnamoorthy, Senior Software Developer Lead at Microsoft, talked about her time growing up and learning to code with limited access to a computer. We also talked about her work and trajectory as a Software Developer Lead. At the […]
Shortly stepping back from coding for a week and reading about the community, I realized it how easy it is to be crushed by anxiety: I see so many great things happening every day, things I want to be part of, but at the same time getting anxiety to be good enough. This is my […]
There is a believe that any software developer must contribute or have a side project to work on. Even if it’s great to have, I think there is something bigger at stake doing that. As a software developer, I’ve been following for years the development community as close as possible. Especially mobile development. I discovered […]
I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But along the way I never felt that being a programmer was this unambiguously great-for-everyone career field with zero downsides. There are absolutely occupational hazards of […]