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I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this…

I built this free searchable/sortable normalised nutritional facts database. I made it for the users of my App to quickly find how many calories ingredients have for their meal plan. It's very interesting to see the…

Me and my wife have been meal planning for the last 5 years. We used google keep. It was working for us, but during the years we needed to streamline the process. We tried other methods but nothing worked, so I spent…

I got tired of uploading sensitive assets to random websites just to make them smaller. Especially when those files end up in apps used by millions of people. I wanted a faster, safer way to optimize images and videos…

I built an iOS app called HabitCrush to help me (and hopefully others) quit bad habits (like procrastination, porn, junk food, or over-eating..) It is like an inverse habit tracker. The idea is simple: name the bad…

In 2013, I couldn’t find a decent interval timer for my workouts on the Android Market (Google Play wasn’t even called Google Play yet!). Could you believe that? Typing 'interval timer' returned nothing! So I decided to…

In the last few months I was trying to up my presence on x (twitter), mostly by sharing my app dev experiences. I quickly noticed that just about everyone shares screenshots framed with a gradient background as if they…

I have never smoked myself, but I know a lot of people that smoke and want to stop. This is for them. While researching the topic on various peer reviewed papers I was impressed how many parts of the body heal when a…

I am a software developer and in the last few months after recently becoming a father I was barely finding time for a proper workout. Recently I was reading about new research on Snack Exercises and how beneficial mini…