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Mar 9, 2021

Exploring Web Automation with Dynamic Code

Selenium is a fantastic tool for automating your browser — and it can be used not only for writing functional tests, but also to automate mundane tasks such as downloading bank statements. However, very often, automating a web page involves a complex sequence of tasks (often including signing in) which…

Selenium

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Selenium

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Jun 15, 2019

DYI 2-in-one credit/fidelity card

Do you have a fidelity card you use often? How about a credit card? Did you ever wish you didn’t have to take both cards out whenever making a purchase? Here is a low-tech way to combine the two together so that you can leave your fidelity card at home. This guide assumes that you: …

Payments

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DYI 2-in-one credit/fidelity card
DYI 2-in-one credit/fidelity card
Payments

4 min read


Apr 24, 2019

Using CocoaPods on Windows

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects. With over 60 thousand libraries, it is the most popular repository of its kind, impacting over 3 million apps (quoting the official site). Traditionally, the CocoaPods only targeted macOS, which made sense as it was meant to work with…

Cocoapods

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Cocoapods

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Nov 9, 2018

Streamlining intents with Kotlin coroutines

Launching activities on Android is complicated. What makes it more complicated is the fact that they are asynchronous by nature, with results being handled elsewhere, namely in the onActivityResult() method. Here is an example (in Kotlin) of how one can launch an activity that picks an image file, and handle…

Kotlin

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Kotlin

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Jan 18, 2018

Adding a shortcut to a random Wikipedia article to your iPhone home screen

I love Wikipedia. I might go there to read up on a fact, and stay for hours browsing linked articles. I respond to Jimmy Wales’ appeals and donate every year. I correct mistakes when I see them. In short, I’m a fan. Wikipedia has a cool little feature for exploring…

IOS

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Adding a shortcut to a random Wikipedia article to your iPhone home screen
Adding a shortcut to a random Wikipedia article to your iPhone home screen
IOS

3 min read

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David Air

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