Push Notifications on the Web (Building a PWA Crossover)

Recently, Ire Aderinokun has been dropping knowledge on how to build a Progressive Web App with push notifications, local storage and all that good stuff on bitsofco.de. In the third post of the series, she goes over how push…

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Sep 26, 2016

Wit.ai Explained — Part 2— Building a bot with Ruby on Rails

In the first part of this series, we went through some of the concepts that Wit.ai introduced in their (relatively) new Bot Engine.

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Dec 12, 2017

Tiny jsonb gotcha in Rails

If you’re using Postgres 9.4+ in your Rails application, you get to create columns in the jsonb type, which lets you store non-relational data.

To do this, you add the column in a migration as usual, like so:

add_column :users…

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Apr 5, 2017

Why I started writing tests — and other stories.

As a software developer, especially one with little experience, it’s very easy to get confused about what you should do and what you shouldn’t do.

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Jul 17, 2017

Yes, another Twitter app.

Generally, my experience with Twitter for Mac hasn’t been good. It’s probably much better these days, but my…

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Jan 16, 2018

Primer: State management (with Redux)

I recently started doing React + Redux development and Redux took some getting used to. So I…

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Sep 17, 2016

Wit.ai Explained — Part 1 — Bot Engine, Stories, and Actions

I’ve been experimenting with bots for a couple of years now and I’ve gone through IBM Watson’s Dialog API, api.ai and Wit.ai for NLU As A Service.

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Nov 7, 2016

Building a Voice Controlled Home Automation Model — Part 3— Arduino Code

This is the third part in the Building a Voice Controlled Home Automation series. You can find the first part here.

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Aug 12, 2017

Getting JSON Body from Retrofit Error (Kotlin)

Update: You can see the class we end up writing, but in Java here.

I started using Kotlin in Android, yesterday. Yes, yesterday. I haven’t even done serious Android development in a while, so I was completely lost; drowning…

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Feb 12, 2017

“Neatly” dealing with JSON.parse-d Hashes in Ruby

So you use some REST API that responds with JSON with a ton of nested objects and arrays, an example of this is the Google Maps Direction API.

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