Thought Box

Thought Box

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AI,  android,  gemini

Putting the Genie in the bottle

How the AI Edge SDK let's you run Gemini locally.

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AI,  gemini,  android

Gemini on Android, The story so far

How LLMs went from hype to a core Android OS component in less than a year.

Kotlin DEVEX is not great, but Amper could fix it. cover image
kotlin,  python,  devex

Kotlin DEVEX is not great, but Amper could fix it.

A call to embrace the CLI for Kotlin development.

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AI,  side-project,  kotlin,  android

Sketch, refine, rinse and repeat

Building an AI Audio Guide - Part 3

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side-project,  documentation,  planning

Planning and documenting a side project

Building an AI Audio Guide - Part 2

From idea to code cover image
AI,  side-project,  kotlin,  android

From idea to code

Building an AI Audio Guide - Part 1

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automation,  gradle,  architecture

Grounding Beliefs

How to automate architecture docs

From macro to micro cover image
algorithm,  problem solving

From macro to micro

There’s this interesting idiom in English: to miss the forest for the trees. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: to not understand or…

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react-native,  kotlin,  swift,  multiplatform

Nesting React Components in Native UI

React Native has support for creating Native UI components which are implemented using the native ui frameworks, and exposed as react-native…

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kotlin,  multiplatform,  kmm

Kotlin Multiplatform under the surface

The mobile development community always had many alternatives for creating cross-platform apps. Since the days of webview-based solutions we…

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automation,  kotlin,  android

A Continuous Integration approach for Kotlin projects

Continuous integration Continuous integration is one of the words that you often hear nowadays. I remember not really getting it when I…

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kotlin,  automation,  gradle

Publishing an obfuscated kotlin library

Being an android developer, I’ve heard about code obfuscation pretty early in my career. Since it’s preconfigured in android’s gradle plugin…

Continuous Kotlin Static Analysis cover image
kotlin,  automation,  devops

Continuous Kotlin Static Analysis

What is it anyway? Static analysis is a way to find errors and other issues in a source code without actually executing it (hence, static…

The First Way cover image
devops,  automation,  ci

The First Way

Automating the Value Stream to Solve "It Works on My Machine" Issues and Improve Code Quality.

A primer cover image
devops,  automation

A primer

Get ready to level up your understanding of DevOps! This guide covers the basics of DevOps, including its definition, the concept of a value stream, and the three ways to approach DevOps practices.

Type safe scripts cover image
kotlin,  automation

Type safe scripts

Ever had a hard time trying to make sense of a bash script? What if you could replace that with kotlin?

A Twitter-Telegram bot in Kotlin cover image
kotlin,  bot

A Twitter-Telegram bot in Kotlin

How to use kotlin to build a bot to send Twitter videos to you via Telegram.

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docker,  automation,  testing

Setting up MockServer

Using MockServer to test in isolation.