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My Mac mini fits one model. I run five.
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Marcos Placona — developer relations leader and consultant, building small local-first apps. More about me.
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Technology
Boost Your Website Domain Rating with Redirects and Bot Control
Learn how to boost your website's Domain Rating (DR) with Cloudflare Workers by setting up 301 redirects and controlling Googlebot for better SEO performance.
Android
Modern Android Development: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException
How to deal with android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException in modern Android applications
Android
Modern Android Development: The problem of sources
Below is my series proposal for fixing the problem of too many sources of information and advocating modern Android Development one gist at a time.
Android
Building a video recording application in Android with CameraX
In this post you will learn how to build a video recording application in Android using CameraX
Android
Android Jetpack and Lifecycles
This post highlights the benefits of using Android Jetpack and the Lifecycles components to guarantee integrity of your view's data
dotnet
OSX Pro Tip for .NET Environment Variables
This post will take you through the steps of using environment variables from within you Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac
Android
Building a beautifully smart form in Android using RxJava
I don't think I know a single Android developer who's not stoked about Reactive Programming with RxAndroid right now. I totally dig the idea of…
Android
Picasso - Same URL but different content
I love using Square's Picasso library whenever I need to load images into my Android applications. It lets me load images from the internet into…
Technology
How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt and CloudFlare on Centos
I took it upon myself to converting a couple of my domains to use Let's Encrypt in order to offer a secure connection to them. If you haven't heard…