Best of Tech News — September 2022
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codeguru·4y
Best Video Game Development Tools
Video game development tools continue to evolve, allowing users to create games that are more enjoyable and eye-catching than ever. Some can help you collaborate and manage projects with your team, while others work wonders for creating animations, characters, and more. With Evercast, your team can share comments and feedback, use on-screen drawings to make visual notations and have access to time-stamped notes.
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Community Picks·4y
How I built and published a Flutter app in 48 hours
A couple of years ago, I built and published a Flutter app in 48 hours. It's a time tracking app which lets you track your time across different activities, and set daily/weekly/monthly goals per activity. For state management, I used "vanilla" Flutter; a combination of FutureBuilders, StreamBuilders and ValueListenableBuilders.
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The Register·4y
Japanese boffins build solar-powered cyborg cockroach
Japanese boffins build solar-powered cyborg cockroach with a tiny Arduino-based backpack. When stimulated with an electrical current, the researchers were able to get the cyberroach to turn either left or right. Commands are sent wirelessly to the Arduino system in the backpack, which then moves the bug.
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Why Creating Tech Debt Is a Necessary Evil
Use tech debt as a tool to validate value instead of an issue that limits your product growth. I don’t think developers must beg Product Managers to prioritize tech debt issues. I believe everyone should have a single goal: improving people’s lives. When the goal is clear, you can evaluate how your actions contribute to it.
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thoughbot·4y
Automate React Native App deployments
For iOS, these are the steps to archive and upload a new build to TestFlight via the App Store Connect. The process for Android deployment involves a series of steps such as generating an upload key using keytool. Running one command on your terminal or the CI can deliver instant updates to all the App users without submitting an App update. But there are few cons to using Expo,
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Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers
Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Google over browsers over browsers. Mozilla says there are alternatives, such as its open-source Firefox. Google strong-arms Android smartphone makers into bundling Google's software suite – including Chrome – and competing browsers are given the cold shoulder. This is important given the high use of both PC and mobile browsers.
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RUBYLAND·4y
10 Best Tech Podcasts in 2022 (as Chosen by the Rails Community)
The Maintainable Software Podcast is full of conversations on improving your software project's maintainability. This week's podcast is a weekly chat chronicling the journeys of two entrepreneurs building software companies. The Changelog, a series of discussions with innovators in the software development industry, remained #7 in our 2020 survey.
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Honeypot·4y
A Female Developer's First 5 Years in Tech
Lena Hierzi is developing an app for relaxation as she helps blaze new paths for women in tech. She is the co-founder of the upcoming app Proof of Meditation, which incentivises users to get into the habit of med Constant learning. Diversifying the male-dominated developer scene will benefit not only women but the entire working force.
