My Dagger Story

Dagger is not the easiest tool to get on board with but it’s almost worth the effort. Here’s the story of my journey to not hating Dagger.

January 11, 2020 · 5 min

Server-side analytics with Goaccess

Analytics platforms are often overwhelming and a privacy nightmare – here’s how to bring analytics to the backend with very simple tooling

December 17, 2019 · 3 min

#TeachingKotlin Part 3 - Caveats coming from Java

Part 3 of #TeachingKotlin covers some subtle differences between Kotlin and Java that might affect your codebases as you start migrating to or writing new code in Kotlin.

December 16, 2019 · 2 min

Deploying Hugo sites with GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions are awesome! Learn how to use it for continuous delivery of your static sites.

December 4, 2019 · 2 min

Publishing an Android library to GitHub Packages

GitHub recently rolled out Packages to the general public, allowing the entire develop-test-deploy pipeline to get centralized at GitHub. Learn how to use it to publish your Android library packages.

November 21, 2019 · 5 min

Why I went back to the Gradle Groovy DSL

I was an early adopter of the Gradle Kotlin DSL, deploying it to multiple Android projects of mine, but lately it has been more trouble than I could care for. Here are my grievances with it.

October 25, 2019 · 3 min

#TeachingKotlin Part 2 - Variables

The second post in #TeachingKotlin series, this post goes over Kotlin’s variables and their attributes, like visibility and getters/setters.

September 30, 2019 · 3 min

#TeachingKotlin Part 1 - Classes and Objects and everything in between

Part 1 of my #TeachingKotlin, this post goes over Kotlin classes, objects and how things like finality and staticity vary between Java and Kotlin.

September 23, 2019 · 5 min

#TeachingKotlin - Kotlin for Android Java developers

Kotlin’s been great for me – and millions others, as evident by its explosive growth. Long-time Java developers may feel hesitant to give it a shot. This series aims to smoothen this transition, letting people know what benefits they might reap from Kotlin, and what differences should they be careful about.

September 20, 2019 · 2 min

Tools for effective Rust development

Rust is an amazing systems language that is on an explosive rise thanks to its memory safety guarantees and fast, iterative development. In this post, I recap some of the tooling that I use with Rust to make coding in it even more fun and intuitive

September 7, 2019 · 3 min