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Adding speech recognition to your Jetpack Compose Android app — The Minimum Effort Guide

NB — 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 19

Adding speech recognition to your Jetpack Compose Android app — The Minimum Effort Guide

Jun 19

Chris Ward

Installing Jupyter Notebook on Termux on Android with one command

tldr…

Jun 7

Installing Jupyter Notebook on Termux on Android with *one* command

Jun 7

Chris Ward

Some 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 24

Some words about my attempt to get on the EU Parliament ballot, and what next…

Mar 24

Chris Ward

Debugging 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, 2022

Debugging and fixing a *huge* Jetpack Compose performance problem in my Sudoku-solver app.

Sep 6, 2022

Chris Ward

Let’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, 2022

Let’s explore coroutines with octopuses [Part 1 of ?]

Mar 27, 2022

Chris Ward

Let’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, 2021

Let’s ban Apple and Google from Pride until they finally let us fuck.

Aug 19, 2021

Chris Ward

The struggle of election campaigning with ADHD hypersensitivity

The 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, 2021

The struggle of election campaigning with ADHD hypersensitivity

Jul 9, 2021

Chris Ward

Deserialising like a pro — Getting to grips with Moshi’s JsonReader

May 29, 2021

Deserialising like a pro — Getting to grips with Moshi’s JsonReader

May 29, 2021

Chris Ward

The 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, 2021

The Mietendeckel “rent cap” may have been illegal, but those celebrating its demise are in for a…

Apr 16, 2021

Chris Ward

A 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, 2021

A fully digital vaccine passport system in the UK? It won’t happen.

Apr 6, 2021

Chris Ward

Chris Ward

he/him

Mobile Engineering Manager in Berlin kidding myself I'm still an Android Dev. ADHDer. Posts mainly about tech, politics and mental health.

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