Reflecting on a year of building Petrichor
I spent the last year building an offline music player for macOS that I would want to use, and I never imagined the kind of traction it would get while helping me rediscover the joy of building software.
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How (and why!) to keep your Git commit history clean
Commits are one of the key parts of a Git repository, and more so, the commit message is a life log for the repository. As the project/repository evolves over time (new features getting added, bugs being fixed, architecture being refactored), commit messages are the place where one can see what was changed and how. So it's important that these messages reflect the underlying change in a short,…
Android vs. Android
Back in the year 2003 when Android, Inc. was co-founded by Andy Rubin (with Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White), which was later acquired by Google in 2005, Google formed the Open Handset Alliance together with device manufacturers like Samsung, HTC and Sony and carriers & chipset makers like Sprint, T-Mobile, Qualcomm and Taxes Instruments. The goal was simple, to create an open set of…
Embrace the Swift
Last week was Apple’s week as it unveiled series of surprises for users and developers alike, in its annual developer conference WWDC. While most of us had our “oh-aah” moments seeing the grand unveil of OS X Yosemite, the 10th update to the OS X, and iOS 8, a more or less an incremental update to iOS 7, if we ignore the number for a moment. Some of us saw the event as a platform to brag about how…
Flat-ter with Colors
When it comes to Humans (I mean humans) interacting with computing devices, the friendship is slightly more than two decades old. From the flow of endless text in black and green colored hypothetical screens to amazing designs of today spread across any screen size you can think of, Graphical User Interfaces have come a long way on the only available canvas; screens.
Co-doing it right with GitHub
Its been a year since I’m using GitHub and all I have to say is, how the hell I was able to code earlier! Too loud? you may reconsider after reading the entire article. Unlike my earlier posts, this post is for programmers ( and also my first brief tutorial), so if you’re NOT one of us (developers/programmers/coders/nerds/geeks), thanks for visiting my blog, you may want to read my previous…
Linux User-base is below 1%: And it is Changing
Let’s set up some grounds before I proceed, and shift ourselves back in early, early Nineties of Technology. WWW was the-next-big-thing, getting “online” was cool. More than 50% of the first-world nations (as they like to call themselves) had internet access. People started spending more time in chat rooms within their own rooms, thanks to AIM and ICQ. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) was every nerd’s…
Facebook Home: More than just an App
Press has put mixed responses over Facebook Home, some say its an incredible leap of Facebook in mobile space while some say it is a disaster. Some users complained Facebook to stabilize existing facebook apps for Android and iOS first, rather than working on newer products. But Facebook Home is indeed more than just an App, a launcher or Facebook Phone as some name it.
Meet the next generation of Browser Engines: Blink & Servo
Just before two days Google announced that it is forking WebKit for using in its Chromium open source web browser (thus, everything that follows it, Chrome, Chrome OS, Android Browser and others ), naming it Blink. This initiated a great round of talks all over the web on how its going to change Chrome, and other browsers in general. So I decided to write a blog post (and probably the first ever…