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Introduction to Android: Contexts, Intents, and the Activity lifecycle
August 22, 2019•1,809 words
A basic overview of the main components of an Android app and how they interact with each other and the Android system
Joining Freenode IRC: A Guide
August 22, 2019•993 words
Basic (but detailed) instructions for setting up a Freenode IRC account through various clients
Continuous Integration with Travis CI for Android
August 22, 2019•2,475 words
An in-depth tutorial explaining how to set up Travis CI to deploy signed builds to Google Play. Among other things
Uttering Hello — The Site's First Post
June 29, 2019•1,029 words
An introduction to Unicorn Utterances, including a mission statement and general roadmap
When performance guarantees hurts performance - std::visit
December 22, 2018•1,096 words
The performance of came up in a discussion, and my first thought was that from reading generated assembly code, it's a jump table, so it should be...
How to speak at a conference
November 29, 2018•1,142 words
A former colleague of mine recently described the steps to speak at a conference as: Write a proposal and (optionally) a talk outline. Get accepted...