In my previous post where I outlined the goals for this project of mine, I briefly mentioned my thoughts on how to structure the code in order for it to work on as many platforms as possible. In this post, I intend to dive in a little deeper on the architecture of the app to … Continue reading Cross Platform Apps the Hard Way – Part 2: The Architecture
Cross Platform Apps the Hard Way – Part 1: The Idea
Nowadays, there are many different ways to build a cross-platform app, including React Native, Xamarin, and Flutter, to name a few. These each come with their own pros and cons, but they all serve the same purpose: allowing you to create “native” cross-platform apps relatively painlessly and cheaper than building out native apps specific to … Continue reading Cross Platform Apps the Hard Way – Part 1: The Idea
Simple Markdown Goes Dark
Version 0.7.0 for Simple Markdown brings some major changes to the app. Most notably, and likely most requested, is DARK MODE. With Android Q’s built-in implementation coming soon, I figured it’s about time to finally get to it. It’s something that’s been on the roadmap for a while but now it’s finally complete. With the … Continue reading Simple Markdown Goes Dark
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
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 ls command that I’ve configured for quickly viewing my repositories remotely. This is quite limited though, in that it only shows me the names of the repositories, without any further details or even … Continue reading View Your Repositories Remotely with GitWeb
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 to some remote server to … Continue reading A Simple Self-Hosted Git Server
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 the application.properties file, which I had also defined with a @PropertySource annotation. Why wasn’t Spring prioritizing my configuration files correctly? What I was attempting to accomplish was shipping my jar with some default configuration … Continue reading Spring Boot Config Priorities
Using Dockerized MySQL for Local Development
Working with a database is pretty much a given for most of the projects I’ve worked on lately, which means that in order to get any work done locally, I’ve had to install a MySQL server, configure it, add the users and databases for each project, and grant the permissions accordingly. Because I didn’t want … Continue reading Using Dockerized MySQL for Local Development
Blog Platform Hopping
Within the community of Linux users and fans, there’s a term called “distro hopping”, which refers to the act of constantly jumping around between different distributions, or “distros”, of Linux. A few examples of popular distributions are Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), or Fedora. Back in the days when I ran Linux on … Continue reading Blog Platform Hopping
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