Tag: trap

What you think might happen doesn’t matter. Developers love to future-proof their plans. They want to make sure that they anticipate future needs and code accordingly. The bad news is: humans are quite bad at predicting the future. This is a key lesson. Anticipatory coding is often waste...

The relocation doctrine in family courts is a principle that seeks to balance a custodial parent’s right to move for legitimate reasons against the noncustodial parent’s right to maintain a close relationship with their child. It sounds rational on paper, but it often disproportionate...

Recently, I started an iPhone note document titled “The Words,” filled with all the words I hear so often that I hate them. This list includes the usual offenders, words like “mindfulness” and “community,” which have become so overused in the culture that they are...

It’s a super easy way to start new coroutines. Calling a suspending function like delay from a plain old function would normally give you an angry red compilation error. But wrap it with runBlocking, and suddenly you’re free not only to call all the suspending functions yo...

Certainly, let’s dive deeper into the Kotlin runBlocking deadlock trap with a real-life example. Consider a scenario where you're building a simple Android app with Kotlin that fetches data from a web service using coroutines and Retrofit. You have a ViewModel responsib...

Alright, I’ll admit, I was swept off my feet the first time I strolled along the Marina, sipping on a $10 latte while ogling at the world’s tallest building — the Burj Khalifa. But then reality hits you harder than your morning alarm on a Monday. The cost of living in Dub...

Darren McGarvey was five when his mother tried to kill him. ‘I was upstairs in bed but finding it hard to sleep because of noise coming from the living room. My mum had people over and they were downstairs drinking, laughing and listening to music. My next memory is standing at the living room...

Recently, I started an iPhone note document titled “The Words,” filled with all the words I hear so often that I hate them. This list includes the usual offenders, words like “mindfulness” and “community,” which have become so overused in the culture that they are...

Violet stood fidgeting. She took a deep breath and dried her moist palms on her skirt. The room was heavy with the lingering musk of cologne and tobacco. Since Vivian wasn’t a smoker, Violet assumed she recently had a guest who was. Adorned with the masculine luxury of dark woods and leather, ...

InGeorgia, 1 out of every 17 people is on probation or parole. That’s a staggering figure, over 3 ½ times the national average. Despite years of successful criminal justice reforms spearheaded by former Governor Nathan Deal, each year 70 percent of people are admitted to Georgia’s...

I’ve been thinking recently about this idea of ‘spiritual highs’ becoming a trap — something that can become one’s focus in life, to the detriment of other areas of life. The result of chasing spiritual highs ultimately becomes a barrier to personal growth, or ‘sp...

While cancel culture is a phenomenon often attributed to the left, I believe it’s ubiquitous, taking place on all sides. Dissenting against the dominant narrative can get you ostracized, fired, de-platformed, or worse, whether you violate standards of political correctness, speak out against T...

Unconventional naming of makeup products has been a clever way to build brand in the beauty industry. Niche beauty brands like Pat McGrath, Charlotte Tilbury, Milk Makeup, and Fenty Beauty have pushed the boundaries and attracted a lot of buzz just by choosing provocative and daring names for the...