jetpack compose

Branching out to Jetpack Compose talk

I had the pleasure to give alongside Chris Banes our joint talk "Branching out to Jetpack Compose" for the first time in this year's droidcon San Francisco and droidcon London. It was super fun to do another joint talk again, after my last one with César. This time it took

android

How we write UI at Twitter for Android

I gave a talk at 360|AnDev this year about how we modernized our UI architecture at Twitter, and a glimpse on how it looks like to write UI with it. Actual talk recording, where I talk about past, present and future of writing UI at TwitterPreparing the talk was

vpn

VPN + Ad blocking on the go

Using WireGuard VPN and Pi hole for better, safer, private navigation.

games

My EXAPUNKS solutions!

I have been playing the amazing EXAPUNKS game lately, and having a ton of fun. Writing some assembly-like ultra limited language is how I started coding when I was a kid, so this game brings me back! Also the whole 90s hacking scene theme, oof, goosebumps. I still haven't completed

code

My editor font of choice

The year 2020 has started with an interesting tweet by Gabriel Peal, trying to canvas which custom fonts developers use for Kotlin development. Some people in the Android community answered and as you would expect, the answers are varied. What font do you use for coding (Kotlin)? I always stuck

android

"Scaling Dagger: DI in a modular world" @ Droidcon Madrid 2019

A few days ago I had the pleasure of giving a talk alongside César Puerta [https://twitter.com/CesarDielo] about some DI related stuff we have been working at Twitter in the last couple of years. Managing your DI setup while your codebase scales and the modules keep growing is

vacation

Battery charging

You need to be careful with the burnout. There are times where it's just not worth squeezing all that's left in you to get things going: the diminishing returns pile up. In my case, I am already familiar with the signs. I get mad easily, I dread in my stomach

tech

The tech Stockholm syndrome

Your company is not your identity, your worth is not valued by the KPIs you meet, and working more than 40hrs (arguably should be less, sweet spot being around 35 for me) only leads to burn out and disappointment.

games

Gris is amazing

Gris, a game by the Spanish developer Nomada Studio [https://nomada.studio/], is a jewel. It even proved to be too hot for Facebook to handle [https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/7/18172757/gris-trailer-facebook-rejected-sexually-suggestive-content] . I am enjoying it quite a lot on my Switch. It's a masterpiece of the

pihole

Make your internet life better with Pi-hole

Ever since I routed all my local traffic through Pi-hole, my internet life has been much better. No ads, neither on browsers or more closed experiences like PWAs. No tracking. All of that, plus the extra benefit not getting the annoying "Please disable your ad blocker" notifications here and there.

switch

Hooked on Dead Cells

Lately I'm playing a lot on my Nintendo Switch, more specifically, the amazing Dead Cells game. If you like metroidvanias or roguelites, give it a try! It's a great for commuting, or even unwinding after a long day of work. That is, if you like to slash everything that moves

blog

Updated to Ghost 2.1.0

Well, I haven't been writing much lately. Which is understandable, given how much I suck at being consistent with site updates. But I found a bit of time to update to the latest version of Ghost. It was a bit of a pain, because so much time it passed since

android

"Video Docking at Twitter" talk at Londroid

Around May I gave a talk at Londroid about what I was building on Twitter at the time: our video docking (picture in picture) framework. Building video docking @Twitter [https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] with @mrmans0n [https://twitter.com/mrmans0n?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/

android

Drebin, a binder framework

Drebin [https://github.com/mrmans0n/drebin] is a binder framework for Android's RecyclerView. The name comes from the Lt. Frank Drebin. First, because Leslie Nielsen is godlike. And second, because Drebin is an anagram for Binder. The binders are defined as stateless templates, can be easily injected if you are

revamp

Revamp, tiny and opinionated MVP framework

I noticed I never talked here (or anywhere for that matter) about my take on MVP, called revamp [https://github.com/mrmans0n/revamp], that I started coding/using almost 2 years ago. It is a tiny framework that has been pivotal on the development of my personal apps. It comes

twitter

The Flock

Soooo last month I left Facebook. Took some time off, cleansed my epic burnout and got on my feet again. I really, really needed that. And then, after a few weeks, I started working on Twitter. The choice was a bit of a no-brainer for me. The team I am

keyboard

Back to mechanical

I've been lately trying to improve my work tools, so I got new toys to play around with. The first one is a WASD custom keyboard [http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/], with Cherry MX blue switches. They are a bit noisy for the office but the guys around me got used

game

Life is Strange is awesome

Just completed Life is Strange this afternoon and I have the urge to preach about how good it is, how beautiful (and beautifully done) it is, and how deep and well written the story is. Loved the music, the art, the pacing of the game, the twists... Such a great

smartadapters

Improvements in Smart Adapters 1.2

The 1.2.x version is the multi mapper release. And what does that mean? After receiving some feedback and dealing with some user problems, there was an issue that was coming up again and again: what if we wanted one object class to be mapped to to more than

summer

A summer to remember

This summer has been very meaningful and a lot happened to me, both personally and professionally. My relationship status changed from "In a relationship" to "Married", for which I am very happy because it happened with my best friend and the love of my life. It's so cool that they

facebook

¡Hola, Facebook!

So, guess what? I got a new job! I will be joining Facebook on August. I have been interviewing a lot for the last months after the unfortunate news, and I finally got a job. I liked them after talking with their recruiters and interviewers. They have really cool projects

code interviews

My approach to Code Interviews

We all dislike them, and there is always this debate going on about whether they are really useful or not for getting the right candidates. But it's undeniable that today, if you want to land a kickass job, you have to master the art of the Code Interview. I had

android

To hell with adapters, with Smart Adapters

What I have dreaded for ages in Android was having to deal with Adapters in my ListViews. The code is always boring and pretty much the same all the time, and whenever it feels different, it means that the cells are getting too complicated... the adapter's LOC grow more and

android

Bye-hoo

Today is my last day at Yahoo. These months have been really fun; I've learned a lot and got to meet very cool people along the way! I wish you guys the best in your new adventures too! I will throw some pictures for nostalgia's sake 😂

ruby

Localio enters 0.1.x family

I had to push a new update to Localio a few days ago, and it was one with breaking changes. The version number left the 0.0.x era, and now welcomes the 0.1.x family. The offender was Google Drive: Google announced a while ago that its Documents