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Want to your app loading screen to look like this? Making your app look beautiful is very important, you want to give your users the best you can give at moments when they can get impatient. I have tried out Lottie last week, and it made my loading screen look just so much better in comparison wi…
Bart Simons
Another big release of Ubuntu has gone live since the 26th of April: Ubuntu 18.04. I wanted to try it out and so I went ahead and installed the desktop edition in Parallels Desktop. So far I can only tell you that Parallels does (at the time of writing this article) not support kernel version 4.15,…
Bart Simons
One of the cool things about Linux is that you can change the root directory to a mounted file system, and that is exactly what chroot does. I use it a lot in combination with my Linux VMs: I have a lot of them and updating them can be a long boring task. So why would you not automate this process?…
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What is Unsplash? Unsplash is a dream that has come true to me - a free platform where free really means free: the artwork available on Unsplash is free-to-use for private and commercial use, without the need to citate the author (although it is respected if you do). Func fact: I also use Unsplash f…
Bart Simons
CSV, also known as comma separated values, is a widely used (open) file format that I often use for exporting data from Microsoft Excel. Since data points are separated by a separation character - commas and semicolons are most often used for this - which makes it easy to read CSV files programatica…
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