vscode Debugging C/C++ code on MacOS Catalina - with breakpoints! Getting VSCode to debug C/C++ code with breakpoints on MacOS 10.15 Catalina
amazon A new version for amazon-asin Apparently people are using my Amazon ASIN parser, so I've published a small fix that handles a new URL Amazon URL scheme. Grab it here: https://github.com/vaiden/amazon-asin
react native React Native: Deprecated API Usage Apple warning So you've uploaded your latest build based on the React Native framework and BEHOLD - you've received a mail from Apple that reads: ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions
tools Devs to watch vol 2: Strapi The guys at Strapi are aiming at eliminating the boilerplates of creating, managing and maintaining an API. And they're good at it. Hitting that File -> New... on a new API project
iOS CocoaPods - Always Embed Swift Standard Libraries There seems to be an issue with CocoaPods and XCode 10 where CocoaPods would force *Always Embed Swift Standard Libraries* to *NO*.
devsbedevin Thoughts about Kotlin (+Brixo app is out) So the Brixo Control Android app by DevsBeDevin is available on the Play Store. This app has been a first for me: the first project I've written fully in Kotlin. TL;DR I'm
devsbedevin Announcing a Brixo partnership It is a great pleasure to announce a partnership between Brixo and DevsBeDevin. Brixo is a company educating children in becoming makers. Brixo's 100% Lego compliant electric bricks kit allows kids to build
mongodb MongoDB - find and findOne with nested array filtering. Finally! Turns out you can easily filter nested arrays in MongoDB. Here is how
ghost Sytnax highliting with PrismJS on Ghost 1.0 So I've ran the update from Ghost 0.11 to the new(?) Ghost 1.0. Apparently I'm just a sucker for hype. Everything went smoothly until I've noticed that I've lost syntax highlighting.
npm amazon-asin v0.9.2 released amazon-asin is a neat little NodeJS package that extracts Amazon ASIN/ISBN from Amazon links. It supports Amazon shortened permalinks and... that's about it. Get it here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/amazon-asin
android Avoiding TransactionTooLargeException on Android Nougat and up Judging by StackOverFlow, one of the most breaking updates for Android Nougat (7) has been the new way Android now handles saved instance states. Everytime your app is either being sent to the
node.js Using the new mongoose connect method - the right way This is gonna be a quicky about some headache introduced in mongoose 4.11.x. The headache So, you've updated your Node.JS project to the latest mongoose and suddenly you notice this
facebook More Facebook Audience madness. Is there a large fraud campaign going on? More "updates" to Facebook Audience. This time an alert was sent to app developers on July 26 via the Facebook Developer Console. This time the window for compliance is even smaller
facebook No. Facebook did not kill an AI because it created a new language. Also - look, a bird! Contrary to what the Internet might tell you, Facebook did not just kill off an AI because it created a new language. Here is what actually happened. Here be poorly drawn dragons Warning
android Using Facebook Audience? Time to almost panic Facebook has dropped quite the grenade last week. In an obscure blog post on the Audience Network blog, FB has announced some major mandatory updates that will be enforced on all clients using
android The pains of building Android React-Native from source I have a project employing React-Native. I'm building the RN module from source, so my project has the ReactAndroid module as a dependency. I was trying to upgrade the project to Android gradle
iOS Debugging iOS SSL traffic After dealing with sniffing Android SSL traffic, let's do the same for iOS. Don't forget to read the warning at the bottom! Setting up the environment We need to setup Charles Proxy for
android Debugging Android SSL traffic Intro? This topic needs no introduction. As the web moves towards an "encript everything" approach, so does the need to be able to decipher said encription grows stronger. The right tool
android Monitoring Android network traffic So I've found myself in need of some Android network sniffing. Well that's an easy one. What we need A device with Android >= 4.0 and tcpdump. Or: An emulator with Android
xcode Handling "Missing Push Notification Entitlement" AppStore error After upgrading from XCode 7.x to 8.x, while submitting our app to the AppStore, we've encountered the following error: Missing Push Notification Entitlement - Your app appears to register with the
off topic Reviewers be reviewin - The Gadget Reviews spotlight Here in DVD (the blog you're reading) its all about developing. It's never about news or product reviews. But we won't have nothing to develop on and no market to develop for without
android Android - Understanding and dominating gradle dependencies My latest post discussed gradle's dependencyInsight task. let's dive deeper into dependencies, direct and transitive, and gradle's dependency tools. Direct VS. Transitive Transitive dependency is an implied dependency, allowing your project to depend
development Android - Easily locating dependencies in Android Studio When Android Studio came to replace the old Eclipse IDE, a great sigh was heard amongst Android developers around the globe. True project dependency, where a project can inherit the code and assets
off topic Devs to watch vol 1: Ludeon Studios An (extremely) open world sandbox survival simulator taking place on a faraway planet. That's the premise behind indy developer Ludeon Studios very ambitious on going project RimWorld. You start out as a small
tools Windows - Pointing iTunes iPhone backup to a new directory My rig has a dual HD setup: SSD + HDD. I use my SSD for all of my storage access intensive purposes: IDEs, VMs, build cache, etc. So naturally I wanna move all other
