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Lessons learned from handling JWT on mobile

Implementing Authorization on mobile can be tricky. Here are some recommendations to avoid common issues. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog. Overview Modern mobile apps are more complicated than they used to be back in the early days and developers have to face a variety of interesting problems. While we’ve put in our […]

The Tattooist of Auschwitzt

Book Review Author : Heather Morris Genre : Biographical Fiction Publisher : Echo/ Bonnier Publishing Australia Year of Publication : 11th January 2018 Number of Pages : 194 My Rating :4 out of 5 The Tattooist of Auschwitz has been on my ‘to-be-read‘ list for a while. To be honest, it has stayed so long […]

Resources | Mobile A11y

This is a personally curated list of resources I have used and think others may find helpful too. I’m always looking for new high quality mobile accessibility and inclusion resources to add here. Please share any you find with me via email or Twitter. Code Android iOS Adopting Voice Control A great, concise, overview on […]

Writing clean models using extensions

Models in Kotlin with data classes are already leaner and cleaner than their Java counterparts. Abstracting away all those getters, setters, toString() and copy() method with a single keyword makes our models reflect the only thing they should be concerned about — holding data. As I was exploring Swift for a project, I came across […]

Joker Cinematographer On Light & Color

Watching the movie Joker, I felt repeatedly that I was watching a film that Greg Heisler could have lit. The use of color was unique, sophisticated and fearless — almost a character unto itself. In this outstanding 15-minute short produced by Vanity Fair, Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher dissects his own use of light and color […]

Review: Accessibility for Everyone – Laura Kalbag

Laura’s introduction to web accessibility jumped out to me because it’s available as an audiobook. Being dyslexic I struggle to read, so prefer to listen to audiobooks where available. Unfortunately, most technical books aren’t available as audiobooks for a couple of potentially obvious reasons. Hearing code or descriptions of diagrams and illustrations read aloud may […]

A11y is not accessible | Mobile A11y

Accessibility is a long word. It’s not the simplest of words to read or to spell, so it seems like a word that would be a good candidate for abbreviation. The common abbreviation of accessibility is a11y. We take the A and Y from the beginning and end of accessibility, and 11 for the number […]