Text replacement, ASCII emoji and Slack

Humans are creatures of habits and programmers… well, even more! Working remotely, I spent lots of hours interacting with people using a keyboard: https://giphy.com/gifs/EtB1yylKGGAUg/html5 Not like that! I mean typing! Nowadays, typing emotions is a common thing: we use emojis. They are everywhere: Slack and Facebook have them. Not Twitter (Yeah, I know! I just…

ADB over WiFi

A few days ago, I built a device holder to place as many devices as possible on my desk without losing my sanity (https://medium.com/@hamen/first-hardware-project-of-2016-device-holder-4ef25670c507). One more step in that direction is solving the charging issue: N devices, with turned on screen, wifi and gsm data vs Powered USB Hub Poor USB Hub cannot win against…

2015: my quantum leap

First week of 2016, lots to do, but what about 2015? I’m still working remotely and this helped a lot from a logistic point of view: I relocated in France with my fiancee. Writing I started this blog and I’m putting a fair amount of energy into it, but the most important event is definitely…

Back in Krakow for the Droidcon

After almost ten years, I was in Poland again last week. Ten years ago I was an Erasmus student; last week I was a speaker at Droidcon Krakow! The venue Every Droidcon feels like a family reunion to me, but the funny part is that the family is continuously growing in size, every time we…

My first Devoxx

Last Sunday my first Devoxx journey began, when I landed in the cute Antwerp. First thing in the morning: taxi to the Kinepolis Event Center. 5 minutes in the queue and I had my Devoxx badge! My talk about RxJava was at 18:05, so I had plenty of time to attend other talks and meet…

Could you do remote working?

When I started working a few years ago, I was a common junior programmer in a common huge open space. It was fun: lots of people hanging around, cool projects, lots to do. It didn’t last. Something went wrong at some point. I couldn’t focus, my productivity was decreasing. I started working more hours to…

Ricetta per Pancake

Da qualche tempo sto facendo colazione con i Pancake. Sono nutrienti e non hanno ingredienti esoterici come le merendine commerciali. Ingredienti per una persona “affamata” 100g di farina 1 cucchiaio di zucchero 1 cucchiaino di lievito 1 pizzico di sale 1 pizzico di cannella 125ml di latte 1 uovo intero 1 cucchiaio di olio di…