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Bookmarks in Power BI: how to create a clean, one-page report
Whether you’re a Power BI developer or simply build a report here and there to visualize your data, you’ve probably seen it before. Reports can get easily crowded with visuals, as space on the canvas is limited, and they end up being hard to understand and navigate. But
Frontend
How to get your cross-references in redux straight
Here at Mews, we have, as any other diligent react/redux developers, followed the redux documentation's recommendations on shaping the redux store. Thus, our state ended up being (somewhat) shaped in such a manner that it references data from one (sub)state to another. While the documentation has good reasoning
Tech
Cracking UnCrackable Android apps: step-by-step guide (part 2)
Level 2 looks and feels like CRACKME level 1, but it is more difficult to crack for two reasons: First, the place where the secret is stored. This time, it is hard-coded in native code.Second, the app also employs a technique that makes attaching a debugger to it a
Community
A different kind of Magic Mike: From hostel reception to teaching coding
Yet another extraordinary life is about to be revealed in our interview series: this time it’s Mike, our QA whiz. Before he turned his life around by finding bugs and making our system better, he gained experience in hospitality by working in hostels and Mews’ customer care. If you’
Tech
Cracking UnCrackable Android apps: step-by-step guide (part 1)
The best way to learn how something works is to break it apart - or build it yourself. I assume you’re an Android developer and you’re familiar with the later part, so let's focus on the former one by cracking two Android apps, extracting a secret String from
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Programmer’s Best Friend: The Mechanical Keyboard
Other professionals use professional tools, yet we spend our whole day in front of a $5 rubber dome keyboard. Investing in a nice mouse for gaming or productivity is nothing new, so why are keyboards neglected? It is the single most touched item of developers (especially Linux nerds with tiling
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13 reasons why Dart is worse than Kotlin
As you probably know from my previous articles and talks, I love Flutter. I really think that this is one of the best options to develop a high-quality multi-platform app. It's so easy to create custom views with complex animations – especially, comparing with the native Android View layer. The way
Engineering
Find the purpose
Three months back, I started my journey of VP of Engineering in Mews. In the following blogpost, I'd like to elaborate on my experience and discoveries so far. Build on your Experience On my path, I was fortunate to work with leaders worth following. I learned a lot from others.