Chris WardAdding speech recognition to your Jetpack Compose Android app — The Minimum Effort GuideNB — pretty much the entirety of the content (or the inspiration of it) of this post comes from this Youtube video by Indently. Give them…Jun 191Jun 191
Chris WardSome words about my attempt to get on the EU Parliament ballot, and what next…So, I didn’t make it onto the EU ballot with my wonderful LD party colleagues.Mar 24Mar 24
Chris WardDebugging and fixing a *huge* Jetpack Compose performance problem in my Sudoku-solver app.A small adjustment and a bit of extra knowledge made a night-vs-day performance difference.Sep 6, 20225Sep 6, 20225
Chris WardLet’s explore coroutines with octopuses [Part 1 of ?]Because concurrency is hard, and most people think admitting that means admitting you’re a rubbish developer. Let’s change that record…Mar 27, 20224Mar 27, 20224
Chris WardLet’s ban Apple and Google from Pride until they finally let us fuck.Sexual puritanism from Silicon Valley Big Tech isn’t just closing down your wank avenues, it kills thousands of careers overnight. It’s…Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021
Chris WardThe struggle of election campaigning with ADHD hypersensitivityThe overhanging dread, the crippling belief that you are an intruder on someone’s property simply by opening the garden gate, and the fear…Jul 9, 2021Jul 9, 2021
Chris WardDeserialising like a pro — Getting to grips with Moshi’s JsonReaderMay 29, 2021May 29, 2021
Chris WardThe Mietendeckel “rent cap” may have been illegal, but those celebrating its demise are in for a…Yesterday morning, the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany ruled that the Mietendeckel — the centrepiece of the Red-Red-Green…Apr 16, 2021Apr 16, 2021
Chris WardA fully digital vaccine passport system in the UK? It won’t happen.Barely a year ago, as the world adapted to the “new normal” of pandemic lockdown, governments started considering how best to manage and…Apr 6, 20211Apr 6, 20211