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Picasso and the price of experience

When people ask me to deliver a campaign or some other piece of work fast but complain at the fee, it always reminds me of this anecdotal…

Jan 23, 2024

Picasso and the price of experience

Jan 23, 2024

The thin line between experience and ageism

It seems puzzling that the very quality that’s cherished while recruiting a person becomes a burden when the said person blows out more…

Dec 8, 2023

The thin line between experience and ageism

Dec 8, 2023

4.1 Design Copycats — App Store error and how I solved it.

I got this error on version 1.0 and 1.1 of my latest app I submitted. They helpfully attached the cause of the error which happened to be…

Nov 26, 2023

Nov 26, 2023

Does only ‘side bar menu’ icon show on iPad when you run your app?

While I was working on my recent iOS app with a Navigation Stack, I ran into this issue where only the side bar menu showed when I ran it…

Nov 19, 2023

Does only ‘side bar menu’ icon show on iPad when you run your app?

Nov 19, 2023

How to expand/collapse text in SwiftUI

I learnt a few intersting bits of coding hacks while building my recent SwiftUI app (dedicated to my favourite Arsenal manager, Arsene…

Nov 16, 2023

How to expand/collapse text in SwiftUI

Nov 16, 2023

My 7th iOS app, One Arsene Wenger, is up for downloads.

This is my tribute to Arsene Wenger, arguably Arsenal’s most successful manager. I started following the club in 2001 because of his…

Nov 9, 2023

My 7th iOS app, One Arsene Wenger, is up for downloads.

Nov 9, 2023

Chat GPT? That’s so December ‘22.

I tried Chat GPT when it was launched and was suitably impressed.

Jul 28, 2023

Chat GPT? That’s so December ‘22.

Jul 28, 2023

Floccinaucinihilipilification and why you shouldn’t use it.

There’s a general rule that states that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. The long word in the title and other…

Dec 8, 2022

Dec 8, 2022

So you’ve been fored. What now?

It happens to all of us. Heck, it happens to the best of us. From the mere cog-in-the-wheel employee in a faceless organisation to…

Apr 22, 2022

Apr 22, 2022

“The days of good English are went”

That’s a graffiti message I remember reading from a collection of writings on the wall (so to speak) compiled by Nigel Reese.

Mar 4, 2022

Mar 4, 2022

Life through the colour bias-cope

While it may seem tenuous at first, the connection between skin colour and suppression, and the consequent issues such as social injustice…

Oct 12, 2021

Oct 12, 2021

My latest iOS, IAmGrateful, is now on App Store

I just launched my latest app on the App Store, called IAmGrateful.

Jul 26, 2021

Jul 26, 2021

How to add Core Data to an existing

May 15, 2021

May 15, 2021

Some of the best programming courses online, paid and free.

I’m a self-taught developer with 5 iOS apps in the App Store and one Android app in Google Play Store.

Nov 27, 2020

Nov 27, 2020

An app for diabetics by a diabetic is on the App Store

I recently launched my 5th iOS app, this one’s for diabetics. As the tagline says, it’s an app for diabetics by a diabetic.

Oct 15, 2020

An app for diabetics by a diabetic is on the App Store

Oct 15, 2020

An overdue tribute to LKY

That’s Lee Kuan Yew for those not familiar with Singapore or its epic journey from a third world colonial outpost to a bustling first…

Mar 23, 2019

An overdue tribute to LKY

Mar 23, 2019

Life without Arsene Wenger, LKY and Steve Jobs.

Every once in a while, our little world is blessed with a leader. A leader with a vision who becomes so entwined with the entity he…

May 23, 2018

May 23, 2018

Zero to first app in a year (give or take 2)

TL;DR My first app on the App Store! TL version: For a long time I had wanted to do an app, a quote app to be specific, for this great sage…

Jan 9, 2018

Jan 9, 2018

Exposing your AWS access keys on Github can be extremely costly. A personal experience.

Recently, I was doing a Ruby on Rails course on Udemy that involved opening an AWS S3 service and creating some buckets for develpement and…

Oct 15, 2017

Oct 15, 2017

Kannadasan and Bob Dylan II

Aug 10, 2017

Kannadasan and Bob Dylan II

Aug 10, 2017

Guru

Guru

Author| Senior freelance writer| Novice iOS and Android Developer| Interests: Classical guitar enthusiast|Pottery | https://about.me/gurun

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