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https://billhillapps.com/ Mostly from the time I was actively building and maintaining mobile apps. It's slightly outdated, but I'm still proud of the metro-style design.

> it added additional delays to the entire system Yes, obviously. And that hurts statistics. That's like killing sick cattle to be able to say that 100% of yours are healthy.

As per my other comment, Swiss trains (especially SBB) are not as pleasant as they get credit for. I get a lot that "you know, in other countries it's much worse", and it reminds m…

I'm a heavy public transport user in Switzerland, and even though it's almost a meme how reliable the trains are, reality is different. Yes, they operate in a way that make the sta…

Banks have stupid rules probably made by people who don't understand the matter. A relative recently got victim to phishing and gave away some of his banking details (fake e-bankin…

I've done it before on a personal project and I was pretty obsessed with user experience. For example, I changed the way buttons work (because they were natively links with Cordova…

That's still a bit risky as Arizona might just change its time zone definition on a whim. I'm an engineer on one of the big calendaring applications, and it's mind-boggling how oft…

Neat. I built something similar but web-based for Java years ago: https://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/projects/DoodleDebug

Well, among other things. Native APIs are another thing that comes to mind, but those can be bridged more easily I suppose.

Well, to have a perfect-ish solution, you'd have to build a framework with UI elements that map to native elements on each platform. Behavior and styling (e.g. positioning of eleme…

A few years back I looked around what options exist for building a cross-plattform app. It should support mobile platforms (at least Android and iOS) as well as the web, properly. …

Years ago I built the same kind of app for Windows Phone 8. I can't find any reference online anymore, though I still have the git repo. It was motivated by my girlfriend stating t…

Meta: This website has one of the worst and most ridiculous cookie opt-out mechanisms. You are expected to read through a wall of text and follow complex instructions to manually o…

Sometimes I have a song stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning, so I started tracking it. There's no text, just a music video occasionally. Not sure if it's interesting to …

I think the numbers in reality are a bit worse. I recently lost my wallet, noticed about a minute later and went back - it was already gone. Later someone found it in a trash can, …

I wonder how/where the author gets connection time information. Each country, and sometimes each public transport company, seems to have their own system, sometimes hard to access …

A couple years back at university, I created DoodleDebug[1,2], tackling some of your mentioned issues. It can be thought of as a graphical version of System.out.println(). There is…

I recently introduced proper minification and tree-shaking to my Cordova app and noticed it only reduced size by ~23% (after 2+ years of active development, so quite some code). Lo…

Selecting a list of airports, or an area, or city with distance range would be nice. From where I live, there are multiple airports about the same distance away, and I don't care m…