I’m a pretty liberal dude but I ended up in Charlotte, NC–out of all places–and my really good friend here is not. Discussing politics with him has been a touchy subject and something I’ve had to manage a lot, but I’m done tiptoeing around the issues. I’m also done showing…

This example shows how a ViewModel can provide data to an Activity on the main thread, while the actual fetching operations run on IO and CPU threads with a coroutine. Coroutines allow us to run multithreaded code easily. Below, I have two functions that run on different thread pools, pass…

There are a lot of tutorials out there that explain a tricky example first and then explain the different parts needed for coroutines. This tutorial starts with the different parts and puts it all together at the end, so bear with me. …

I want I want I want, but.. Can I afford? — I know what you’re thinking: another budgeting blog? Really? Hasn’t Forbes.com, or Mr. Money Mustache, or the Mad Fientist said it all already? Well, perhaps not quite. The info here is a simple take on personal finance for young adults getting out of school, anyone who wants to put hard…

Why do I care? — Intro This game was part of the International Champions Cup (ICC), which is a series of friendly/exhibition games between elite European teams in preparation for their regular season. The cup runs from July 20 through August 11 and features 18 teams, playing in 22 different venues across Europe, the United States…

What the hell happened? — As expected, the second and third tier players came out and got some play time to let the stars rest up and warm up the bench, especially on Liverpool’s side. However, Dortmund had some up and coming talent that showed Liverpool who’s boss. First half Each team made a shot, but only…