Hello, and welcome to my blog! I am Dan.
This all started with me messing around on a lazy weekend, one thing led to another, and now I guess we are here! I write (and rant) about programming, Linux, technology, and whatever else crosses my mind.
Feel free to look around, if you’re not sure where to start, how about these? 👇
How to properly offer your Compose mobile apps more rendering freedom by enabling edge-to-edge mode, and then how to deal with the gotchas. In this article we’ll be looking at my attempt at a Material3 UI in Compose Multiplatform, the issues I faced, and the workarounds I ended up using to overcome them.
Read more... 2024-04-25 2623 words 13 min programmingSelf-updating software is sometimes viewed as a feature, but to me, it’s just annoying. A rant about this practice and a plea to stop this trend.
Read more... 2024-03-31 965 words 5 min technologyBackend unit tests tend to be tedious to write, difficult to maintain, and costly to execute, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Here’s how I leverage the power of Kotlin to make writing integration tests for Ktor backends a breeze, while also keeping them 🔥 blazingly fast 🚀.
Read more... 2024-03-24 3490 words 17 min programming