My name is slnt_opp, I'm just yet another Developer, who has domain and maybe some words to tell you. Here you can find some articles written by me. And if I'll publish any projects, they will also appear here. So, you can find my contacts and blog posts down.
Fare Enough turns an iPhone into a taxi meter: real city tariffs, a glowing old-school meter when you turn the phone on its side, and receipts that print on a pocket thermal printer. Here is what building it taught me about Skip, background location and Bluetooth printers.
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Eighteen months of drawing our map as pictures, and why Cuando is moving to vector: one 58.67 MB file instead of 15 GB per theme, a Flutter renderer that crashed, and three map engines behind one view in the new apps.
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Every map decision in Cuando so far followed from how the map was billed. Six months of Mapbox, one week of vector tiles, a heatmap that decides how far you may zoom in, and, as of this week, a map we draw ourselves.
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Cuando is a bus app for Torrevieja, now on Google Play and the App Store. There was no data to start from, so we drew the network by hand: 163 stops, 16 lines, a stopwatch app and a lot of YAML. Here is how it works, and why a graph database lasted eight weeks.
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Once upon a time i had an idea: make a database and authentication gateway - service, which would be accessible as API only, to make it possible to create dynamic web-apps without backend. This idea has been bought by Google, not from me ofcourse, cause i haven't done anything :). But let's talk about this another time, today let's try to get little but into Firebase and find out how to use it and should you use it.
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