Happy 2017! As we put 2016 in the rearview mirror, we’re all taking a look at the outlook for 2017 as I did here but I wanted to take a more personal angle here and explore what I desperately want to see from the tech community. This list is by no means exhaustive and...
Pallet Town: First Steps to Functional
I’ve been taking a deeper look at Functional Reactive Programming in the form of RxJavaand ReactJS. While I am still at the early stages of really looking at this and forcing myself to actually work in these technologies that I’m still no really sure make a lot of...
Bye MacBook, Hello Lemur!
Apple is widely believed to be releasing new Macs next week and I am celebrating this long overdue update to the MacBook Pro by replacing my existing MacBook Pro with a Linux laptop from System 76. This isn't one of those "Apple sucks posts" but I did want to go over...
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Swift on Android
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