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Devs Be Monitoring home network with Raspberry Pi and Netdata

Working from home has raised the importance of monitoring my internet connectivity. This is how I use Raspberry Pi and Netdata to monitor my connectivity and ISP.

vscode

Debugging C/C++ code on MacOS Catalina - with breakpoints!

Getting VSCode to debug C/C++ code with breakpoints on MacOS 10.15 Catalina

tools

Devs to watch vol 2: Strapi

The guys at Strapi [https://strapi.io/] 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

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*.

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 [https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/android-building-from-source.html] , so my project has the ReactAndroid module as a dependency. I was

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 >= 4.

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

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