Thought Box

Thought Box - Sharing ideas

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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

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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

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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…

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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…

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devops,  automation,  ci

The First Way

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

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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.

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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?

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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.