I maintain an open source app called Simple Markdown. One of the things I’ve been working on for it lately is getting some CI server setup to be able to automate the testing and packaging of the app. I’ll still handle the publishing myself but I’d like to speed up the rest of the process. Anyways, … Continue reading Is it Safe to Store your google-services.json in a Public Git Repo?
Category: Quick Thoughts
Reflecting on my Career
This month, I’ve started a new position as an Android Engineer at American Express, and I found myself reflecting on how I got here. I have no college degree, and didn’t participate in any coding bootcamp or anything like that, so I figured I’d share my story in case it’s helpful to anyone else out … Continue reading Reflecting on my Career
Getting More into Blogging
I follow quite a few blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels related to software engineering, and a common theme I’ve noticed between several of the producers of the more inspirational content I follow is that they recommend doing something to get yourself out there, be it maintaining a blog, speaking at conferences, starting a podcast, etc. … Continue reading Getting More into Blogging
Testing Your Android Apps for Chromebooks – When You Don’t Have One
While I don’t have a Chromebook, I recently bought a Samsung Dex, which for those of you who aren’t aware of what that is, it basically allows you to take your Samsung phone, dock it, connect a mouse, keyboard, and external monitor, and use the phone as if it were a desktop computer. Seeing as … Continue reading Testing Your Android Apps for Chromebooks – When You Don’t Have One
Simple Markdown January Updates
I barely managed to squeeze these updates into the end of January, despite a busy post-holiday season for me. Simple Markdown is still not polished enough for me to call it a 1.0 release yet, as there are still plenty of rough edges to smooth out, and a few new features I’d like to add. … Continue reading Simple Markdown January Updates
WebView Memory Leak
A few months ago, I published an app called SimpleMarkdown, which, as you can probably guess from the title, is a markdown editor. I had a strange bug that I couldn’t quite figure out no matter how much I searched it and eventually I had to put it on the back burner as I got … Continue reading WebView Memory Leak

Say Time for Chrome
tl;dr – Say Time for Chrome in the Chrome Web Store One of the features of macOS that I really appreciate is the ability to have the Mac announce the hour. I find it incredibly helpful to stay on schedule and keep track of time. Unfortunately, on Windows and Linux, this isn’t as simple to … Continue reading Say Time for Chrome

Progressive Web Apps
For the longest time, I’ve wanted to get into Android development. While I haven’t yet taken the time to learn Java and get to it, I have been looking into progressive web apps. They’re actually rather exciting. Essentially, they seek to make web apps feel like native apps, to improve the user experience and increase … Continue reading Progressive Web Apps

Vim and Vundle
For the longest time, I have neglected to put my vim configuration under some sort of version control. I suppose it’s not been a top priority for me to maintain the configuration that I’ve taken so much care to set up until now. Since I started using vim about a year ago, I’ve really only … Continue reading Vim and Vundle