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Rapidly improving Play Store rating with an Android in-app review prompt helper (from 2.2 to 4.7 in 2 weeks!)
I recently worked on an app, Seatfrog, that had been rated between 1 and 2 stars for months, despite no major issues. The solution? In-app rating prompts!
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Generating a SQLite word dictionary (with definitions) from WordNet using Python
I recently needed a SQLite dictionary with word, type, and definition(s). Turns out, it was easy enough to make my own!
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What on earth is an Octocat!? Exploring all 150+ variations of GitHub's mascot
If you’ve used GitHub for any length of time, you’ve probably seen their odd “Octocat” logo. This cute little cat also has a lot of bizarre variations, here’s an explanation of them all!
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How to automatically add WebP post banners to Jekyll for faster load times
Most modern browsers can handle the smaller & speedier WebP versions of images, yet generating them manually can be a pain! Here’s how to do it automatically in Jekyll.
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My experience with the GitHub Foundations Certification process
Did you know GitHub offer paid certifications? They do! The first of these is “GitHub Foundations”, offered for free to students, here’s my somewhat rocky experience of studying & taking the exam.
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How to force update (& test) your Android app using Google's in-app update library
Earlier this year, I needed to add the ability to force update users of an app. Whilst I’ve used custom solutions in the past, Google has a standardised “in-app updates” library that does all the essentials for you!
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A possible fix for intermittently hanging Android builds on GitHub
I recently experienced an Android project’s GitHub build workflow sometimes taking 10 minutes… but sometimes freezing and eventually being killed after half hour by GitHub! The cause? Requesting too much RAM.
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How to bulk download all past versions of a webpage, parse the data in Python, and save to CSV
I recently needed to download hundreds of past versions of a StumbleUpon webpage, parse the HTML, and output the data into a CSV for further analysis. Here’s how to do it!
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Building a Jekyll / Liquid calendar with custom events
I recently created a full-year calendar displaying custom events from Jekyll posts in the Liquid language, here’s how it works and how to use it!
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A post-mortem of "BountyHour", an unfinished microcontracting marketplace using Next.js, tRPC, and Prisma
Like every developer, I have plenty of ideas, most of which never get beyond the planning stage! BountyHour was one of them that made it into proper development, and was then abandoned. So, what happened?
