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Fix for Perfetto's Failed to Fetch Error

How to fix the "Could not load local trace TypeError Failed to fetch" error in Perfetto UI

Revisiting Compose Perf-Land in 2025

Revisiting Jetpack Compose performance patterns and assumptions in 2025 to see what has changed - performance - jetpack-compose

Why and How I am building a smarter TODO app.

Solving a personal itch by creating a non-boring TODO app.

Power of Two with Bitwise

Efficiently detect powers of two using bitwise operations in Kotlin with a simple AND trick.

Learning Basic Electronics By Building FireFlies

From missing real fireflies to learning basic electronics and building my own blinking "fireflies"

Boundary Check vs Try-Catch

Performance comparison between boundary checking vs try catch

Google Sheet as Remote Config for Microcontrollers

How I used Google sheet as a remote config source for microcontrollers

Large PR SOP

How I organize my PRs when building large features

Compose Performance - Finding Regressions

How to find performance regressions in your Jetpack Compose code using Perfetto and Diffetto

That Weird Compose Crash

One day, while debugging a weird crash in Compose ConstraintLayout...

Caveman Debugging in the Modern Age

How to use live-templates in caveman debugging, aka. printf debugging

Why fullMode hates Gson so much?

When fullMode is enabled, some of the Gson usage crash the app. This is an investigation into how and why it happens.

Why r8 preferred BMW over Audi?

An analysis on one of the r8 optimisation called fullMode

How to protect your Ktor Slack bot

A how-to guide on how to protect HTTP-based Ktor Slack bot (using HMAC)

How Reverse Engineering Saved Me ~87% Cost on Car Mods!

How I saved ~87% on car mods by reverse engineering a React Native app and modifying it to work with a cheaper OBD2 reader.

How I Automated Video Editing Using FFmpeg

Frustrated by the time-consuming process of video editing, I decided to automate the task using programming and tools like FFmpeg.