Category: Tech

  • Closing 2019 – Beyond Android

    Since I started going around for conferences in 2015, I mostly attended Droidcons. Over time, I realized that I was building a weird sort of bubble and patterns started to emerge: Android vs iOS 💣 My library vs your library 🔥 My stack vs your stack My MVVM vs your MVI RxJava Vs Coroutines 😡…

  • GDG Geneva — July event

    GDG Geneva is a small GDG, but we try hard 😊 Last Monday we had our July event, and, despite the tremendous heat, spent more than one hour talking about MVP on Android. I prepared a small Android app to demonstrate how we can create an app that fetches data from a backend and shows…

  • Installing Git Cola on OSX

    There are tons of Git GUIs out there, ready to be installed with a couple of clicks. However, over the years I have always used Git Cola because it seems to be the only one providing one specific feature I use very often: Stage Selected Lines Many GUIs provide only something like this: Stage Diff Hunk Hunks…

  • Text replacement, ASCII emoji and Slack

    Humans are creatures of habits and programmers… well, even more! Working remotely, I spent lots of hours interacting with people using a keyboard: https://giphy.com/gifs/EtB1yylKGGAUg/html5 Not like that! I mean typing! Nowadays, typing emotions is a common thing: we use emojis. They are everywhere: Slack and Facebook have them. Not Twitter (Yeah, I know! I just…

  • My first Devoxx

    Last Sunday my first Devoxx journey began, when I landed in the cute Antwerp. First thing in the morning: taxi to the Kinepolis Event Center. 5 minutes in the queue and I had my Devoxx badge! My talk about RxJava was at 18:05, so I had plenty of time to attend other talks and meet…