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I don't know how Signal works but it is possible to send a silent encrypted push notification that the app can decrypt and show as a local notification.

Ólafur Arnalds is another one to check out!

The datagenetics blog has a pretty deep dive into this question! http://datagenetics.com/blog/july32015/index.html

We use React Native for our apps and React for desktop - I'd say about 95% of the Android/iOS code is shared and we're able to share a lot of business logic between mobile and web.…

I find that a useful way to look at this is to compare the time you would spend on that to the growth you would get by spending time elsewhere. For example if it takes 1 week to ad…

Possibly like me you have plugins disabled - it looks like it doesn't start until you enable Flash.

I've been thinking about something similar to this - particularly for me in relation to when bands bring out new albums or new TV series come out. I was thinking I'd probably tackl…

Definitely not! But we use it for testing locally, during which time we don't write pyc files which means we're less likely to have issues with that when we deploy to production.

We've started running our runservers with pythondontwritebytecode=1 - I haven't noticed enough of a performance impact to change it back and it saves us remembering to delete pyc f…

The Guardian app (possibly UK only...not sure) redirects directly to the article if you click No and then remembers that you did that and redirects you directly from then on. Defin…

Most people use ad networks and ad networks generally don't provide a way to get the ads on the server side. That would also be more complicated than sticking an iframe/script tag …

I think the important thing to take away from articles like this is that the cloud isn't the only way (not that you should then title the article "Why the cloud isn't for your star…

I'm not sure about the automation of creating servers in the web interface (it gives you a key that you have to put in the configuration file) - installing the service is easy thou…