Human and Developer
I was looking to upgrade my rooted Android from 4.4.2 to 4.4.3 when I ran into an interesting error: "/system/app/BrowserProviderProxy.apk" has unexpected contents That made sense – I needed to do some dev work with the old version of the Browser app, so I backed up those files and installed Browser.apk. So I popped into adb shell to restore the files. Without thinking, I deleted the files.…
I decided to read a book not related to programming at all, just to help get some outside perspective. I decided to read about sales. After a little bit of Googling, I came across The Four Kinds of Salespeople: How And Why They Excel - And How You Can Too by Chuck Mache . The book talks about the four (and only four) types of salespeople: The Performer, The Professional, The Caregiver, and The…
I’ve only recently come out of my burnout, despite it happening years ago. It sucks. It sucks bad. But looking back, I can see many of the causes crystal clearly, that weren’t so apparent at the time. Here’s a list: 1. Think about your project and only the project Let’s face it. Business wants you to make the best product you can “for our customers”. You put off…
I want to start this blog off with a topic that I hold really dear to me. I listen to music for most of my waking hours. Especially since I’m working from home now, I need something going on in the background. So I listen to Spotify for basically the entire time. I was listening to the playing “Cozy Evening” when I caught a Craig Cardiff song – Dirty Old Town. It’s a…