Yale Road is the main road at my alma mater — it represents the dreams and anxieties I had in my late teens and early twenties regarding everything the future held for me. The past year, things have been great. I now work for an amazing software development company through…

I'm going through a weird phase in my life. A health condition which may or may not be serious has me thinking seriously about meaning. My ENT thinks it's nothing — I got a z-pak, some anti-histamines and some Valium. …

My business partner and I couldn't get in touch with our billionaire investor a few months ago. A fund he co-created, which invested in us (and several others), had been making an exploratory play in our region — it recently got shut down and so was our indirect link with…

Firebase Storage is a cloud storage service offered by Google's Firebase — Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform. For various reasons, you may want to know how much storage space is being used by a particular user. …

Few things are quite as exciting as submitting a new app, that you've poured your heart and soul into, to the Apple App Store. The submission represents goals, dreams and possibilities about your future that may have captured your imagination for years. Sometimes though, the excitement of these new possibilities…

Nowadays, when you speak about desktop development, people look at you like you're some kind of Luddite. Despite the hype with mobile, the honest truth is that the most productive and complex work is still being done on desktop (or through browsers that run on desktop). I love Java, Swift…

Isn't it funny how we spend most of our lives playing it by ear after crafting some of the most elaborate and detailed plans of how we will deal with life events? Some of our wisdom comes from previous life experiences, some of it from culture and family but I…

Push is an incredible and necessary feature in any mobile application. Amazon's AWS provides a push service for mobile through it's amazing Simple Notifications Service (SNS). I personally found implementing push on iOS with Swift and SNS a bit difficult, largely because there is no simplified, step-by-step documentation on the…

In a way, Generation Z (the generation of people born after 1995) is better suited for this f*cked up 2017 world — well, at least better than us millennials. I’m in my early thirties but I’m still clinging on to the liberalism that permeated the world before I became fully…