I write about all kinds of topics I find interesting and worth sharing.
Having been relegated to working from home during the pandemic, I’ve been looking at more opportunities to get out. I live further away from the city, so most locations require commuting. Driving a car for these felt unnecessary, while transit is time-consuming. After reading about eBikes recently, I pulled the trigger. It has bridged the gap between biking, driving, and transit for me.
I recently picked up the Cocktail Codex. The book outlines how there are only six families of cocktails: the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip. This got me thinking - are there similar templates for services?
Mid way through my first semester, I decided to build a gaming PC. While building my own PC likely wasn’t cheaper, I enjoyed the flexibility they could offer. This post walks through how I upgraded the system over the years.
Last year, I upgraded to one of the newer Kindles. My 2012 Kindle Touch was starting to show its age. However, since the display was still functional, I was interested in seeing if I could repurpose it.
Diving into the new Converter API in Retrofit 2.
Introducing Train, a Go library to make it easy to write HTTP client middlewares.
Gzip is a compression format widely used in HTTP networking. With gzip we saw over 10x reduction in the POST request body to upload our batched event data.
Static factory methods are extremely powerful in Java. Here’s how factory functions are effective in Go.
Introducing Reactive SharedPreferences for Android.
A simple mechanism to avoid memory leaks.
A minimal JSON databinding implementation on Android.
Be sure to protect clients from passing invalid inputs.