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Setting up the blog

Which blogging platform to choose? Choices I could have picked: * a free hosted solution like Medium or Blogger * a paid solution like WordPress.com or Squarespace * a self-hosted solution using an open-source project like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla A quick search shows that WordPress is the dominant blogging platform today. Not

Why I write

I've been writing software for a long time. Over the years I've learned new concepts, languages and tools. Software development is a broad field that evolves fast, and I will forever be a beginner in most of it. Even though writing software is my job, I have struggled to keep

Beginning Android – Authentication

Now that the skeleton of the app is made and it is pushed to the Alpha channel, it is time to build real functionality. In the previous post, we discussed how to set up a new Android app, sign it and publish it to the Play Store in a closed

Beginning Android

To start my journey learning Android, I chose to make a revolutionary app... A todo app!! Fine, it's actually been made before. You can try out a few dozen ones on the Play Store. Still, none of them satisfied my requirements: * free and ad-free * location reminders * phone notifications * day of