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Nodu is a minimalist personal development app that helps you stay focused on long-term goals, day by day. Every morning you decide what you will do and what you will not do by swip…

I'm surprised to see Kotlin in your list. Google has stated they are increasingly moving Android development to a Kotlin-first ideology. New official libraries produced by Google f…

Nodu is a minimalist personal development app that helps you stay focused on long-term goals, day by day. Every morning you decide what you will do and what you will not do by swip…

I found out about Arctype a while ago when I started writing for their blog about SQL, a topic I really enjoy. I'd recommend checking out their product if you spend a lot of time i…

The worst part: if the person sends you a text while you're scrolled up it will jump all the way to present time.

Author here. I have sent/received 643,576 messages since 2009 which totaled 590MB. To my knowledge media is never stored in the SQL database (for iMessage).

While web browsers on iOS are unfortunately just re-skinned Safari, you actually are able to create/download totally custom keyboards. A while back I created a custom keyboard to t…

TerraStride, Inc | Portland, OR / Remote | Full-time | Android Engineer TerraStride is an established Portland startup making web and mobile mapping applications for outdoor enthus…

Not a recruiter but a co-worker who asked me "Do you know what an algorithm is? We might need one."

While I had a positive experience with the Uber app software-wise (app functioned seamlessly landing in Mumbai from U.S.A.), Uber as a service was not really comparable to what it …

I've gone back and forth on this in respect to database tables and ultimately prefer singular. If the table is named "profile", I think it's obvious that it can store more than 1 p…

I was in Death Valley last weekend. Drove there from SF with Model Y, ended up renting an ICE car to explore the park, especially since we were staying 1.5 hours from the center of…

I interviewed at Discogs about 3 years ago (after discovering they were local to me in Portland, OR). Seemed like a great group of people working there!

Yeah, wasn't trying to say this was an example of graph. Maybe it is slightly outside what would be considered "standard" relational DB use case? My impression of recursive CTE's i…

In the past I used recursive CTEs in Postgres to calculate the BOM of a product. Products consisted of "parts", and each "part" had a cost and could consist of any number of other …

Returning from Singapore I was asked if I had any "rare feathers"... I said no but was still taken aside and searched.

I worked for Best Buy (Geek Squad) as well, about 12 years ago. I had the same experience. Even if they were going to pay me for the time, it felt wrong that they told me I was not…

TerraStride | Android Engineer | Fulltime | U.S. Remote + Portland, OR | http://terrastride.com TerraStride is an established Portland startup making web and mobile mapping applica…

If you're on desktop Safari, the only way to select the maximum 2 years option is to resize the window vertically (smaller) until the dropdown becomes a drop-up.

The SDK is crashing. It's likely crashing because the service changed, but it's causing actual crashes on iOS and Android devices which rely on the SDK.

I experienced this long before I ever saw it on the internet. For me it's especially bad if there is a hole and something small is stuck in it. Even as I type this I remember a spe…

Gatekeeping may not be the best word, and I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say. OP is not merely pointing out a deficiency: they are suggesting that there is a declin…

Yes, clearly I am not advocating that anyone of any experience should be allowed to do any job. OP is positing that there is a decline in software quality because of developers who…