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Programming Reading Material

Two Kotlin/data science articles from Yours Truly!

Kotlin developers who want to get into data science: these articles are for you! They’re about using Jupyter Notebook, but with Kotlin instead of Python. Why should Pythonistas make all the big bucks? Read the articles, which appear on RayWenderlich.com (the premier mobile development site, and it’s where I learned iOS and Android dev) in […]

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Hardware Tampa Bay

Screwbox: My go-to for Mac repairs in Tampa Bay

The quick summary: If you’re in the Tampa Bay area and need your Mac repaired, Steve Bush of Screwbox will come to where you are, pick it up, repair it, and bring it back to you. I needed repairs done on my 2014-era MacBook Pros, and Steve did a fantastic job fixing them — and […]

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Mobile Podcasts

Recommended Android developer podcasts for 2021

If you’re a regular podcast listener and an Android developer (or an aspiring Android developer), you’ll want to check out these podcasts. Not only are they informative, but they’re also active, or in other words, they’re still in the process of making more episodes. Add them to your playlist and deepen your Android knowledge! Android […]

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Career What I’m Up To

How I landed my job at Auth0

  The opportunity I first became aware of opening for a “Senior R&D Content Engineer” at Auth0 on August 18th. You can see the job description here. I did my research — because of course I did my research — and Auth0 turned out to be a very interesting opportunity for a number of reasons: […]

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Current Events Hardware Players Tampa Bay

Win a System76 Thelio Linux desktop in The Mad Botter’s Fourth of July contest!

Mike Dominick’s Tampa Bay-based consultancy The Mad Botter — which develops automation/integration software — has a Fourth of July contest for high school or university undergrad students where the prize is one of System76’s gorgeous Thelio desktop Linux systems! This is an election year, and The Mad Botter’s contest is an election contest. Contestants are […]

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Programming

Converting a number from a numeric form into words in just four lines of Swift

 Until I started working on a video tutorial for Apple’s Combine framework (coming soon to raywenderlich.com!), I had no idea that this existed. Open a Swift playground in Xcode and enter the following code: let formatter = NumberFormatter() formatter.numberStyle = .spellOut let number = 87654 let spelledOutNumber = formatter.string(for: NSNumber(integerLiteral: number))! print(“\(number) spelled out […]

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Current Events Players Programming Reading Material Tampa Bay

Local hero: Mike Dominick and his tech podcast, The Mike Dominick Show

Mike Dominick, who runs The Mad Botter — which develops automation/integration software — moved to the Tampa Bay area three years ago. It’s been my experience that Tampa Bay techies don’t do things halfway, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that in addition to the day job, he also has a technology- and open source-focused […]