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A lesson in humility

I grossly underestimated integrating a third party SDK into our iOS app based on Kotlin/native. And by grossly I mean not just 2x or 5x…

6 min readSep 17, 2022

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A lesson in humility

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How to generate structured data with GPT-3 and make it 10x more useful

Nowadays, everyone seems to do stuff with OpenAI’s GPT-3/ChatGPT. But how much more useful would it be, if OpenAI’s text completion APIs…

6 min readFeb 12, 2023

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Yet another case for working remotely?

I’ve been working remotely for 6 years straight now. And no matter what my co-founder thinks, I could surely never (?*) go back to regular…

10 min readOct 14, 2022

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Yet another case for working remotely?

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Labeling GitHub auto-merge pull requests

You can’t see on GitHub’s PR overview at a glance whether a PR was marked for auto-merge or not. Let’s fix this!

3 min readSep 17, 2022

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Labeling GitHub auto-merge pull requests

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CoordinatorLayout Behaviors- Change elevation of a View upon scrolling another one

Consider this: You need a button to change its elevation depending on the scroll state of a RecyclerView (in fact any ScrollingView): the…

3 min readJun 23, 2019

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CoordinatorLayout Behaviors- Change elevation of a View upon scrolling another one

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Zero elevation — zero click handling

Setting zero elevation on clickable elements causes them to not being clickable anymore. I haven’t yet investigated whether this is a bug…

2 min readJun 16, 2019

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Zero elevation — zero click handling

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Bring some zen to your shell

Sifting through the web I stumbled upon a little API called zen which is provided by the guys over at GitHub. The API returns a random…

2 min readApr 9, 2019

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Bring some zen to your shell

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Missing signing config when debugging release builds

2 min readMay 13, 2018

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Missing signing config when debugging release builds

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Using String placeholders with data binding

1 min readApr 27, 2018

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How to access a list of resources via data binding

1 min readApr 13, 2018

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How to access a list of resources via data binding

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Sven Bendel

Sven Bendel

Senior Android Engineer @Photoroom. Founder. Crowdfunding addict. Trying hard to do the right thing and failing more often than not. https://proven.lol/286e9b

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