Optimizing the Fun Away
I recently got Beltmatic, a minimalist math-themed factory game. This is how I played through it.
Read more... 2024-07-01 1529 words 8 min gamingThe Future Is Self-Hosted
What started as a nerdy interest turned into a hobby now seems like a necessity. I firmly believe that everyone interested and capable, or willing to learn, should set up a home lab. Here’s why…
Read more... 2024-06-05 1111 words 6 min technologyTheme-Aware Edge-To-Edge In Compose
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 programmingPlease Stop Updating Yourself
Self-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 technologyParallel Integration Tests With Ktor
Backend 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 programmingBe Cool About Type Safety
I very often praise Kotlin for its powerful and flexible type system, and bash on JavaScript for its lack thereof. But I want to show that, while it is personal preference (even if a popular opinion), there are actual merits to having a good type system. While Kotlin and JS are used as examples here, these points can be extrapolated to most languages.
Read more... 2024-03-20 4121 words 20 min programming