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prof18··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
plug for FeedFlow http://feedflow.dev/
prof18··on Ask HN: Those who use an Android and macOS, how do you manage sync?
To quickly transfer files I'm using https://www.ubidrop.com/
prof18··on Migrating old artifacts from JCenter to MavenCentral
Yeah, I agree. The process is not so easy and this can cause barriers to entry.

And that's why 5 years ago I've published my first libraries on JCenter. Back then I was still at the university, never worked yet in the field and JCenter seemed to me the least painful path.

prof18··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
Nope. Because I truly believe in community and open source. I'd not be able to sleep on night and I'd prefer to shut it down rather than selling.
prof18··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
I'll never do that, because I've done it without any kind of profit in mind. I've done it just to help people and the community.

I think that if the app is open source, it's harder to hide such behavior.

prof18··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
The problem is that not all the people knows that. And I don't know why Google does not "advertise" it.

Anyway, for my parents' old phone I built one simply QR Reader without any crap. If you need one -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prof18.sec...

prof18··on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
QR Reader are load of everything. I went mad to find one a decent one for my parents’ android phone and apparently it doesn’t exists. So in a weekend I’ve created one without any kind of tracking, ads, permission, whatever. Here it is if you guys need one ->

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prof18.sec...

prof18··on Malware on My Android Phone
QR Reader are load of everything. I went mad to find one a decent one for my parents’ android phone and apparently it doesn’t exists. So in a weekend I’ve created one without any kind of tracking, ads, permission, whatever. Here it is if you guys need one -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prof18.sec...