Anton Danshin

Posts

1. November 08, 202616 min read

   What does RGB 255, 0, 0 actually mean?

   I always thought 255, 0, 0 was just red. It's an instruction, and the red you get depends on the screen's color space.

2. November 05, 202625 min read

   Exposure vs Brightness: what Affinity Photo does to your pixels

   I measured what the Exposure and Brightness sliders in Affinity Photo 3 really do to pixel values, and when I would use which.

3. August 14, 20226 min read

   Easy Interview Questions I Ask and Common Mistakes

   Some easy questions I ask during tech-screen interviews that fail half of the candidates.

4. December 10, 20217 min read

   Refactor your Gradle build configuration with convention plugins

   How Gradle precompiled script plugins help put your multi-module project's build logic in order.

5. October 30, 202115 min read

   Effective team communication in Slack

   How should a growing team organize Slack channels for more effective communication.

6. October 17, 20214 min read

   Material avatar placeholder in Jetpack Compose

   Implementing avatar placeholder with initials on colored circle in Jetpack Compose.

7. September 28, 20215 min read

   Countdown timer with Jetpack Compose

   Different approaches to implementing timer with Jetpack Compose.

8. September 25, 20217 min read

   Upgraded my project to Android gradle plugin 7

   Fixing Android build pipeline after upgrading to latest Android Gradle Plugin (7.x).

9. September 22, 20216 min read

   Publishing Gatsby blog. Part 1.

   How I created a blog with Gatsby and published it to GitHub Pages. Part 1.

10. September 18, 20214 min read

    First blog post

    Starting a self-hosted blog based on Gatsby.