Hi everyone, I wanted to share my latest project and talk about the reasons for making it. One a Day is a gratitude and positivity platform for people struggling with their mental health. It offers a safe space where we can practice gratitude and celebrate our achievements, no matter how small. When dealing with mental health issues, we encounter problems, which we think should be trivial to solve…
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This story is going to be very personal. I guess that's okay. Looking back A few years ago I was very unwell. I was at the university, after moving to the UK on my own, and then moving between cities trying to find my place. I made some friends but didn’t feel close to anyone, which was mostly because I was (and still am) really good at isolating myself. The only person I could talk to honestly…
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So I did it. I ran a marathon. Early last year I made one of my many returns to casual jogging as an alternative to my usual workouts. I needed a change, I needed a reason to get out of the house (Covid times!) and I needed something to help me clear my head a bit. Running was good. Humble beginnings I'd never run longer than 8km, and even that distance I'd only done once. I never felt like longer…
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Recently I've been working on an app where users can read articles in a foreign language and get immediate translation of the words they select. Unfortunately, it turns out that text selection isn't supported out of the box in Xamarin Forms so I needed to do some digging. First of all, I found these two great articles explaining how to create selectable labels: - Article by @HeikkiDev - Article by…
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