Thought Box

Thoughtbox - An open box of thoughts.

From macro to micro cover image
algorithm,  problem solving

From macro to micro

There’s this interesting idiom in English: to miss the forest for the trees. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: to not understand or…

Nesting React Components in Native UI cover image
react-native,  kotlin,  swift,  multiplatform

Nesting React Components in Native UI

React Native has support for creating Native UI components which are implemented using the native ui frameworks, and exposed as react-native…

Kotlin Multiplatform under the surface cover image
kotlin,  multiplatform,  kmm

Kotlin Multiplatform under the surface

The mobile development community always had many alternatives for creating cross-platform apps. Since the days of webview-based solutions we…

A Continuous Integration approach for Kotlin projects cover image
automation,  kotlin,  android

A Continuous Integration approach for Kotlin projects

Continuous integration Continuous integration is one of the words that you often hear nowadays. I remember not really getting it when I…

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kotlin,  automation,  gradle

Publishing an obfuscated kotlin library

Being an android developer, I’ve heard about code obfuscation pretty early in my career. Since it’s preconfigured in android’s gradle plugin…

Continuous Kotlin Static Analysis cover image
kotlin,  automation,  devops

Continuous Kotlin Static Analysis

What is it anyway? Static analysis is a way to find errors and other issues in a source code without actually executing it (hence, static…

The First Way cover image
devops,  automation,  ci

The First Way

The idea behind the First Way is that by identifying, measuring, and improving the flow of work through our value stream, we can optimize…

A primer cover image
devops,  automation

A primer

Recently, I’ve been trying to improve my understanding of good CI and CD practices and I often saw this word: . I mean, I thought I sort of…

Type safe scripts cover image
kotlin,  automation

Type safe scripts

Ever had a hard time trying to make sense of a bash script? What if you could replace that with kotlin?

A Twitter-Telegram bot in Kotlin cover image
kotlin,  bot

A Twitter-Telegram bot in Kotlin

How to use kotlin to build a bot to send Twitter videos to you via Telegram.

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docker,  automation,  testing

Setting up MockServer

Using MockServer to test in isolation.