Android
The Verge’s favorite audio gear for 2022
Photo by Alix Diaconis / The Verge It’s been about a year since we first asked the staff of The Verge to tell us about some of their favorite audio gear. As we said in Read more…
Python
Creating GUIs with PySimpleGUI (Video)
My talk, Creating GUIs with PySimpleGUI, is up on YouTube. I gave this talk to the SFPython / PyBay groups in January 2022. I used Jupyter Notebook for the slides of this talk. All the Read more…
Android
Samsung’s Galaxy S22 phones push Google Messages and the good news of RCS
Samsung’s messaging app is still available, but Google’s is the default. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A lot more people might be about to start using Rich Communication Services (RCS), the new Read more…
Android
Apparently, people do use Bing
If you listened in to The Vergecast a couple of weeks ago, you might remember a sidebar discussion on how Android and Windows users in the EU are prompted to choose a default search engine Read more…
PHP
Invading private properties and methods in PHP
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Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.
😈 Whatcha think of my new favorite helper method?
That property/method protected or private? No problemoooo 🔓 pic.twitter.com/HqMXKKpRsJ
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 11, 2022
He added that invade function to Livewire. Because I could see myself using this in non-Laravel projects, I packaged up the function in a new package called spatie/invade.
Python
PyDev of the Week: Roman Right
This week we welcome Roman Right (@roman_the_right) as our PyDev of the Week! Roman is the creator of Beanie, an Asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB. You can see what else Roman contributes to Read more…
Android
Google made a smart lamp that you’ll probably never be able to buy
Image by Google via Ben Gold If you’re in the market for a Google Assistant-supported smart lamp, you’ll be sorely disappointed to know that Google created one, but it’s only for employees, as reported by Read more…
Android
Write better tests with the new testing guidance
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Android Developer Relations Engineer As apps increase in functionality and complexity, manually testing them to verify behavior becomes tedious, expensive, or impossible. Modern apps, even simple ones, require you to Read more…
Android
Big tech’s 2021 earnings were off the chart
Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge 2021 is in the rearview mirror, but the year’s final reckoning didn’t come until the past week — at least where Wall Street is concerned. Major companies ranging Read more…
Android
Startup’s 5G Blackberry revival is reportedly no more
A close-up of the 2015 BlackBerry Priv. | Image: The Verge Plans to resurrect the Blackberry brand with a new keyboard-equipped 5G Android device have been shelved, according to reports from AndroidPolice and CrackBerry. Development Read more…