Harsh Shandilya

Android developer, Kotlin fanatic and wannabe Rustacean

Recent posts

Jul 30, 2020
Android Password Store 1.10.2 patch release — Long form release notes for the Android Password Store v1.10.2 patch release
Jul 23, 2020
Android Password Store 1.10.1 patch release — Long form release notes for the Android Password Store v1.10.1 patch release
Jul 23, 2020
Why upgrade Android? — (Mostly) everybody agrees that Android upgrades are good, but how very crucial they are to security and privacy often gets overlooked. Let's dig into that.
Jul 22, 2020
Android Password Store July release — Long form release notes for the Android Password Store July release
Jul 17, 2020
Making a Bluetooth adapter work on Linux — Getting a USB Bluetooth dongle to function properly on Linux proved to be somewhat of a trip, which I'm documenting here.
Jul 5, 2020
Simple tricks for faster Rust programs — Rust programs are pretty fast on their own, but you can slightly augment their performance with some simple tricks.
May 8, 2020
How Cloudflare proxies CNAME records — Everybody probably understands how Cloudflare proxies A/AAAA records, but how it proxies CNAME records is also pretty interesting. Let's dive into how that happens and why it can often break other products that need you to set CNAME records.
Apr 13, 2020
Switching my email to Purelymail — I recently moved from forwarding my email through Google to hosting it through Purelymail.com. Here are some thoughts about the process and the motivation behind it
Mar 6, 2020
Dagger the easy way - Part 2 — Let's extend the "scope" of these tutorials :)
Feb 9, 2020
Sunsetting Viscerion — The Viscerion experiment that started more than a year ago is now coming to an end. Here's what's happening.