For a couple of years now, I've been working on a self-hosted family budgeting application called Twigs. Seeing as I'm an Android developer, I spend most of my days writing Java and Kotlin. Thus, it seemed like a good idea to stick with the languages I'm most comfortable with for …
Articles in the Tutorials category
Converting Google Calendar Links to iCal
Recently I stumbled upon a Google support thread that outlines how to convert a Google calendar link into an iCal subscription link. The reason this is so important is that it allows you to subscribe to a Google calendar via any other sort of caldav client including Nextcloud or the …
Reading Files from a Tar Archive
TIL you can quickly read files from a tar archive with this command:
tar xOf <tar-file> <file-you-want-to-read-here>This works even if the file is compressed. You can get a list of all the files in the archive by running this:
tar tf <tar-file>Adding C Code to your Android App
Create a new project, or download the zip file/clone the repo from here. I've chosen to start with a new project targeting API 15 and up, including Kotlin support and the AndroidX libraries.
Side note: you could just create a C++ project at the Activity selection screen. That's not …
App Shortcuts in iOS 13
App Shortcuts (also known as Home Screen Quick Actions), are the nice little popups that allow users to quickly jump into a specific section of your app, as seen in the screenshot below.
Apple has a really nice guide on how to implement these in your own apps, but the …
Quickly Sending Code as a Git Patch
The other day at work I was helping a coworker troubleshoot something remotely, and we eventually decided to split up and troubleshoot individually to try and cover more ground. He hadn't pushed his changes from his branch and I didn't want to completely drop what I was doing on my …
Swift Combine's Result.Publisher
Coming from a background in Java/Android development, I’m fairly familiar with working in RxJava and the reactive style of programming. Without getting into the details of said style, there’s a particular operator you can use called
Observable.just(), which allows you to wrap a single value in …View Your Repositories Remotely with GitWeb
If you've been following my blog, you probably saw the post where I outlined my personal git server setup. In it, I showed off the
lscommand that I've configured for quickly viewing my repositories remotely. This is quite limited though, in that it only shows me the names of …A Simple Self-Hosted Git Server
If you're writing code for any purpose, I sincerely hope you are using some kind of source control. I personally am only really familiar with Git, and as such it is my go-to tool for keeping track of my code. Nowadays, there are plenty of hosts for pushing your code …
Spring Boot Config Priorities
Recently, while working on a job, I ran into an interesting problem with Spring Boot: the configuration files I had defined using the
@PropertySourceannotation were being overridden by theapplication.propertiesfile, which I had also defined with a@PropertySourceannotation. Why wasn't Spring prioritizing my configuration files correctly …
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