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A quick rundown of the major improvements made to my video snipping tool

Apr 20, 2022 · 8 min read · I took some time to work on my existing projects, and came across some potential problems I didn't realize for a long time. ClipClip was developed to trim videos into chunks of equal parts, mostly suitable for sharing correctly synced videos on Whats...

Creating and optimizing custom blurs with OpenCV on Android

Apr 8, 2022 · 14 min read · An image is made up of a number of pixels arranged in a 2-dimensional grid; rows and columns. The resolution of the image is a product of the number of rows and columns, with the rows representing the height of the image and columns representing the ...

Creating a News App for Android

Feb 23, 2022 · 8 min read · During my early days of learning android development, one of the exciting projects I wanted to work on was a News App, specifically for gaming contents. Since I knew so little at the time, one of the roadblacks I faced was not having an idea on how h...

Database table structure for different notification events

Dec 20, 2021 · 8 min read · I set out to build one of my favorite projects some time around June, and while I was able to complete it to some extent and successfully launched it, I did face some setbacks while trying to implement certain features in the application. One of the ...

Replies are... well, comments too!

Dec 13, 2021 · 5 min read · Last week, I did a bit of refactoring on Picashot's web service, and went through a rethink of how to store comments and replies in the database. I initially had 2 tables for this, a Comment table and Reply table. These tables had very similar column...