This post describes a pattern of launching coroutines which cancel when the Activity or ViewModel is destroyed, but support allowing important parts of the coroutine to run uncancelled.

Kotlin coroutines provide an elegant way to write asynchronous code, but sometimes coroutines make it difficult to write unit tests. This post describes how to use TestCoroutineDispatcher to write efficient and stable unit tests for code written with coroutines.

Code Confessions; openly confessing your coding sins to your team. Involve your team and absolve yourself.

This post describes a potential WorkManager pitfall when refactoring or deleting your Worker subclasses.

This post describes how to install the privacy-focussed Fathom website analytics on an Amazon EC2 instance.

This post details how to include the author tag in the generated RSS feed for a Hugo-generated site.

This post describes how to use Coroutines in ViewModels, making use of the new ViewModelScope extension property. This allows coroutines to be cancelled automatically when the ViewModel is being cleared.

This post discusses the functions `add()` and `plus()` which are available on some Kotlin collections, and how despite their similar looking names, their underlying implementations can make a big difference.

This post discusses kscript, an easy way to write and execute scripts in Kotlin. This post covers what kscript is, how to install it on a Mac, and offers some kscript examples.