One of the challenges we have at Freetrade is running workflows regularly, automatically, and reliably. These workflows keep the price charts in your app up to date, generate your monthly statements, reconcile transactions and much more, so it’s important that they run on time. To make sure that happens, our…

There’s a habit at #droidcon for speakers to share their slides on Twitter. Here’s one place to find the slides from droidcon London 2019! Pushing Dynamic Features Your Users Want, As Quick As They Want Them Having a Voice on Android: How hard can it be? Idio~ma~tic Kotlin Get Happy, Get Known, Get Paid Supporting Each Other — Growth for Juniors and Seniors Measure What Matters with Jetpack Benchmark

I initially wrote this comparison for a friend when he asked me for an opinion on React Native vs. real native apps. I figured I might as well publish it, so here it is! Context: There’s Android and iOS. …

tl;dr Switch to a local proxy server (dnscrypt-proxy) using DNSCrypt. It’s been a dream since my first university year (fall 2016) to use whatever DNS server I wanted, without eduroam’s restrictions. In particular, I wanted to use Google’s DNS (until I found Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 …

tl;dr Won 3rd place at a hackathon with Liber, a product for people to make automatic investments. In 48h we coded a fully working app with real UK bank accounts, deposit & withdrawal, face biometrics, and live Bitcoin price updates. As President of HackaSoton (hackathon-focused tech & entrepreneurship student society…

Yesterday I participated in UKIEPC (a subregional contest to select teams that should go to ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest) with my team of 3 hackers. Our code names were Elliot, Angela, and Mr Robot; and the team name—you guessed it— was `fsociety`. We weren’t allowed to use internet or…

While working on our newest app, we knew we had to make it one-of-a-kind. There are tons of similar apps, but we want to be different. Better. So we’re focusing not only on UI and UX, but also on your privacy. Data, data, data… You know already… everybody wants your data. Well, not…

I’m working on my second coursework for the COMP2209 Programming 3 module at University of Southampton, which is all about functional programming principles and Haskell. …

Back in September, Vlad and I attended MallorcaJS. Vlad spoke about the future of interaction—Conversation Interfaces—while I talked about the technical bits of building a chat bot. There was also a talk from Logitravel/Bluekiri, from our dear friend Iñaki. Here are the slides for my presentation: Needless to say, on the day of the presentation we were as excited as our friend Iñaki :) Thanks MallorcaJS and Logitravel for the opportunity!