Because concurrency is hard, and most people think admitting that means admitting you’re a rubbish developer. Let’s change that record… I’ll be entirely honest. People that fully understood concurrency in Android were always considered God-Level to me — A status I’d never be able to obtain. So I just sat…

Sexual puritanism from Silicon Valley Big Tech isn’t just closing down your wank avenues, it kills thousands of careers overnight. It’s time to take a stand for sex positivity. And so, another one bites the dust. OnlyFans has decided to follow Tumblr’s famously successful business model of banning literally the…

The overhanging dread, the crippling belief that you are an intruder on someone’s property simply by opening the garden gate, and the fear that something dreadful will happen every time you knock a door is a staple of ADHD-driven hypersensitivity among politicos. Before diagnosis, I thought I was just a…

If you’ve ever done JSON deserialising (that is, taking a string of JSON and transforming it into an object in your Android app), you’ve almost certainly used the Gson library at some point. And there’s a good reason — it was easy to use and it largely served us well…

Yesterday morning, the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany ruled that the Mietendeckel — the centrepiece of the Red-Red-Green left-wing Berlin state government’s programme — was in fact illegal and immediately void. Those with an ideological stance on the project immediately took to Twitter. The left decrying that those with wealth…

Barely a year ago, as the world adapted to the “new normal” of pandemic lockdown, governments started considering how best to manage and track exposure of individuals to the virus in an attempt to contain it as much as possible. …

Content warning: Mental illness, suicide. Just over a year ago I walked into my GP Surgery in Berlin, approached the reception desk and handed the assistant my phone. Written in my messaging app was the note: “I’m really sorry to burden you with this, but I think I’m going to…

It seems odd to be writing this. Only a year ago I was revelling in Berlin’s cheap booze, sampling every beer in sight and stocking up on the strangely tasty 3 euro bottle of red from the local shop. Did I consider myself an alcoholic? Not really. “I enjoyed a…

Oh bless you. Anybody that quotes “thought crime” because they have their moronic unscientific bigoted views challenged is not rational, nor a Humanist. But thanks, random profile.