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The Book of Abraham: A Journey of Faith, Doubt, and Discovery
A personal journey with the Book of Abraham — from childhood fascination to scholarly inquiry, and what the catalyst theory does and doesn't explain.
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Notes on software, side projects, and whatever has my attention.
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Healing the Soul of the Survivor: 50 Years of War
An open letter to the world about healing from cancer — on the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act and what we still owe survivors.
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Android Processes & Security
How I circumvented restricted Google APIs to enumerate running processes — and discovered the Chinese applications that took advantage of it on 1.2 billion+ devices.
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Decompiling Google Safety Net
SafetyNet is a data collection system used by Google to gather security-related information from a billion Play-enabled Android devices — here is how to pull it off a device and decompile it.
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Easter Eggs in Android
Why Easter eggs delight users — plus a tiny Android example that surfaces a random Chuck Norris joke after seven taps.
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Movember: My Cancer Story
My cancer story. Written for Stripes of a Warrior, a nonprofit that helps cancer patients fight cancer financially.
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Best Google Chrome Apps and Extensions
A roundup of my most-used Chrome apps and extensions across productivity, tools, social, Google's own, and developer tooling.
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Android, Bitmaps, and Convex Hull
Adding algorithms to Easter eggs — using QuickHull on Android bitmaps so a flying bugdroid only collides with the parts of itself that actually exist.
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Lollipop Land — Game for Android
Lollipop Land is a fun game based off the Android 5.0 Easter Egg — how I back-ported it from AOSP and shipped it the day Lollipop's source dropped.
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App Ideas
Every known invention of mankind has started as a simple thought, an idea — but most "I have an app idea" pitches skip the questions that decide whether it ships.
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Becoming an Android Developer
A starter pack for aspiring Android developers — languages, tools, and resources to get from "Hello, World" to your first real app.
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Motherhood
A tribute to my mom, Kelly Rummler — her story, her trials, and what motherhood really looks like from the back stage.
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