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Sep 6, 2023: Apple Vision Ready OnlineJobs app now works on Apple’s visionOS.

Aug 23, 2023: VersionedSchema Protocol Updates After updating to Xcode 15 beta 7, I got a VersionedSchema error saying that 1 does not conform to protocol 'VersionedSchema' Previously, …

Aug 7, 2023: Build Go programs with GitHub modules present I was hit with an error when I try to run a Go script, go run somescript.go. This is a note to my future self, in case I totally forgot. 1 no …

Aug 7, 2023: Throwback Android Developer Google Group Out of the blue, I remember that I was in a Google Group community of Filipino Android developers back in 2011-ish. After some quick Googling, I found …

Aug 5, 2023: That Annoying Xcode 15 IDELogRedirectionPolicy This issue will cause debugging on either device or simulator to slow down to a crawl. For future reference, here’s how I fixed it. Edit the …

Jul 27, 2023: Chess Milestone: Advanced to Legend A few days ago, I was able to advance to the most elite division of chess.com, the legend division. After playing a few games from this division, as I …

Jul 26, 2023: Sharing from Linux to macOS Note: The OS versions I used here are macOS Sonoma 14 Beta 3 and Fedora Workstation 38. On the first try, I was supposed to enable file sharing from …

Jul 9, 2023: Last.fm API I recently recovered my Last.fm account, which was one of the top music services before Spotify or streaming in general. It says my account has been …

Jul 5, 2023: WWDC 2023 I just realized that I have not written something or anything about Apple’s WWDC 2023. I was too busy catching up with the WWDC sessions and …

Jun 14, 2023: Thoughts on Stack Overflow 2023 Survey Note: I always participate in this survey every year. Developer Type On the developer type question, there is only 3.38% that consider themselves …

Jun 8, 2023: Stack Overflow Keycap Reward My tiny reward from Stack Overflow arrived yesterday, a small single keycap. I won it when I answered their Saved the Day story. I did not remember …

Jun 5, 2023: r/BusinessPH will be going dark The sub r/BusinessPH will join the Reddit blackout on June 12 - 14, 2023, this is in solidarity with developers of third-party clients who will have …

May 23, 2023: dSYM workaround in Xcode 14 Starting with Xcode 14, Bitcode has been deprecated. So, in our team’s case, it is impossible to download dSYM files for debugging crash logs. …

May 18, 2023: Underwhelming Google I/O 2023 After watching half of the Google I/O Keynote, I had to close the video because it was starting to bore me. There was no excitement for me, AI/ML is a …

May 12, 2023: SwiftUI Tap Anywhere Today I learned how to implement tap anywhere to dismiss the keyboard on SwiftUI. In your parent stack, either VStack or HStack, add the following …

May 10, 2023: YouTube Coding 3 days ago I uploaded on YouTube my coding in SwiftUI, working on a couple of simple bug fixes for my hobby project. My wife gave me this idea and …

Apr 26, 2023: Chess Milestone I achieved a very rare milestone last night. I had a 10-game winning streak in a “Champions” Division. I am not entirely privy to the …

Apr 24, 2023: Xylophone App In roughly an hour or two, I created an iOS app for our son who loves playing his Xylophone. I came upon this old repo for inspiration and reference. …

Apr 20, 2023: Fedora 38 Released Just installed Fedora 38. So far, no issues found. The default wallpaper sucks though.

Apr 19, 2023: Sound of Metal Movie Just finished watching the movie Sound of Metal. It was a great film and just found out that it was nominated for best picture back in 2021. If you …

Apr 16, 2023: New MacBook Air M2 My new Macbook came in today, from my sister in Houston. Thank you! Coming from Macbook Pro 2015 (won’t run the latest Ventura or Xcode 14.3 …

Apr 8, 2023: Early Birthday Gift My wife gifted me an early present, a Fitbit. Thank you so much! I love you! I used to have a Huawei smartwatch but lost it and hopefully, I can find …

Mar 27, 2023: Jetpack Compose Journey Part 1 This will be my first time delving into Jetpack Compose for a rewrite of our existing app. I believe I have no time to study or do a full Google code …

Mar 25, 2023: Belated Happy Birthday To My Wife After a very busy day yesterday, there was not enough time to post a greeting here. Happy birthday to the best person I have ever known and my lovely …

Mar 9, 2023: Google I/O 2023 It’s that time of the year. I’m surprised that Google announced the event this early.

Mar 8, 2023: New Home My wife and I are proud homeowners today. After 3 years in the making, we finally got the keys to our new house.

Feb 24, 2023: Diablo Immortal on Linux I was able to run Diablo Immortal on Linux, despite only being available on iOS, Android, and Windows. I know for a fact that I needed Wine to be able …

Feb 7, 2023: My first contribution to Google/Android I just had my first GitHub contribution to Android/Google merged into their codebase. I have never thought of taking my free time to contribute to …

Feb 3, 2023: Bought ThinkPad T480 Yesterday I bought a ThinkPad T480 for 17,000 PHP or ~315 USD. It has 512 SSD storage and 16GB RAM which is a very good specification-to-price ratio. …

Jan 19, 2023: Leftover Android Studios Thanks to this Reddit post, I just found out that you could remove unused Android Studio cache or leftover versions. I saved around ~4GB of storage.

Dec 24, 2022: Books I've Read this 2022 I haven’t read that many books this year. For 2023, I hope I would be able to improve my reading habit. The following below are the books …

Dec 16, 2022: My Personal Feedbin Reader - v0.2.1 The name of my personal Feedbin reader is called FeedMe. The more I worked on it the more it feels like this is not an RSS reader app, but a food or …

Dec 10, 2022: My personal Feedbin Reader - v0.2 In three days, I developed my own Feedbin Reader since the official one is not written in native. In other words, it feels so slow. First commit was …

Dec 2, 2022: Philippines Top 10 In Pivoting to Clean Energy According to MIT, the Philippines is one of the countries pivoting towards clean energy. Perhaps we are the only one throughout Southeast Asia? Good …

Nov 25, 2022: Updating old Android codebase An old client of mine contacted me to fix some bugs and the tricky part was that I have to update an Android codebase that hasn’t been updated …

Nov 20, 2022: GCF on Hacker News In high school, in me and my brother’s room, I had a vandal of a phrase on my wall saying On the streets saving the scene from the forces of …

Nov 11, 2022: Android Studio Render Problem If you encounter a Render Problem issue on your Android Studio, like the one below. The solution I came up with is to use the Material Styles as your …

Oct 22, 2022: Reddit Gift Reddit made an error with their Premium and in turn, they gifted me with 21,000 coins. I would never expect them to even respond or solve this issue.

Oct 1, 2022: Android Job Post Nostalgia Just found this photo of a newspaper ad for an Android Developer job post. This was my first break in the mobile development industry. This was …

Sep 29, 2022: Xcode 14.1 Beta 3 New Splash? I just saw this new Xcode splash screen for the first time. This popped up on Xcode 14.1 Beta 3. I’m surprised this wasn’t included in …

Sep 28, 2022: One of the Top Mobile Developers in Cebu Before this gets purged on the internet or LinkedIn. Back in 2018, someone messaged me on LinkedIn that I was chosen as one of the top mobile …

Sep 25, 2022: Weekend Project: ImageDownloader.py My personal project for this weekend is to migrate my portfolio from my old WordPress blog to my current one. Export First, I exported my content …

Sep 20, 2022: My Wife's Pregnancy Journey Just happen to see this picture again in my photo library and I am still amazed at how strong my wife is. These were her medications after her …

Sep 18, 2022: SwiftUI: How to use NavigationStack inside the .toolbar First, why do I mostly find a solution after posting a Stackoverflow question? So most examples and tutorials only use NavigationStack and …

Sep 17, 2022: BuildException Error Updated last night to the latest Android Studio Dolphin build but encountered this annoying build error from the JetBrains IDE. Invalidating cache and …

Sep 15, 2022: Compiling iOS Project in GitHub Actions While setting up YAML with GitHub Actions, it seems the build failed. These are the steps I took to integrate GitHub Actions in our iOS project. It …

Sep 9, 2022: OnlineJobs is iOS 16 Ready I just compiled our codebase to the latest Xcode 14 RC and everything looks good during testing. I am still not sure how I feel about the new iPhone …

Sep 7, 2022: Our Son Turned 4 Our kid turned 4 this week. We came back to the hotel where he was still tiny. Where we had to request a crib for our room. But now we can’t believe …

Aug 31, 2022: Stackoverflow Chat Recent History Backup I just want to post my Stackoverflow recent chat history for nostalgic purposes. I hope that day never comes when Stackoverflow would also sunset …

Aug 31, 2022: Legacy Android Library - Networking Valley 7 years ago I open-sourced my first Android library on GitHub. And shared it to my fellow Android devs in Stackoverflow’s Android channel. This …

Aug 24, 2022: Mixpanel Code Refactor Our app uses Mixpanel for analytical and strategic purposes. This post is about my refactoring journey. Mixpanel introduced another parameter in their …

Aug 18, 2022: Manjaro WTF!? Just today I read two bad news regarding Manjaro Linux. The first one is why you shouldn’t use Manjaro and the other one is why I left PINE64. …

Aug 17, 2022: My First Professional Android Project I found my first “professional” Android project while backing up data from my old laptop. I called it a “birthday reminder” …

Aug 13, 2022: Be Nice To Your Mobile Developers We need more wholesome reviews like the photo below. I received this notification this morning and I don’t care if it is a bot (at least …

Aug 11, 2022: Stay Safe Bug During the Covid pandemic, every country has its own app or service to help track and monitor citizens for infection. And to prevent spread. One of …

Aug 6, 2022: Became a Subreddit Moderator Last night I was invited to moderate the subreddit /pinoyprogrammer to which I have been contributing a lot for around a year already. It truly is an …

Aug 2, 2022: Compiling Android on the Command Line First of all, I am on Manjaro Xfce environment for this example. We need to install Gradle. I tried to install Gradle using ArchLinux’s pacman …

Jul 16, 2022: Legacy Projects Part 1 Development Date: Last Quarter 2012 This was one of my app ideas back in 2012 where users can save important notes. I developed this using Eclipse IDE …

Jul 14, 2022: Familiarizing Linux Again Part 2 So I was able to install Manjaro KDE last night because the new USB drive was delivered yesterday. I tried to install Pop!OS but somehow I was …

Jul 12, 2022: Diablo Immortal My wife and I started playing Diablo Immortal yesterday and I’m so happy she’s enjoying it. I played my usual barbarian character while …

Jul 9, 2022: The Curse of Monkey Island Game Revisit Since the upcoming return of the game franchise, Monkey Island was everywhere on the gaming news. I’m not into games anymore, but I followed Ron …

Jul 8, 2022: Smartmatic Hacked by Kids I just found out that the XSOX group has been arrested. It turns out, they’re just some kids who hacked Smartmatic. Kids. Back in January 2022, …

Jul 7, 2022: Familiarizing Linux Again After more than 5 years on macOS, I’m excited that I get the chance to use Linux again. My brother gave me his old Windows laptop. Since I …

Jul 4, 2022: Social Distortion - Bad Luck Cover This made me feel old. This is one of my favorite Social Distortion songs and the song was covered by Chuck Ragan. Chuck is one of my favorite band …

Jun 29, 2022: Git Checkout to Switch I have finally made the switch from using mainly 1 git checkout develop to 1 git switch develop And a couple of things new to Git v2.37.0 and …

Jun 23, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 11: Passing parameters Right now I am still figuring out how to pass a parameter from one View to another. I read I need to use @Binding but don’t know what it is. Or …

Jun 20, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 10: Settings I can’t believe how easy it is to implement a settings page in SwiftUI. For the UI, I only need 37 lines. Of course, this implementation …

Jun 18, 2022: WWDC 2022 I haven’t yet written about this year’s WWDC 2022. In fact, I am still going through all the developer videos while also exploring …

Jun 15, 2022: URLRequest not working right away in macOS (AppKit)? URLRequest not working right away in macOS (AppKit)? Do not forget to enable network capabilities in Xcode’s App Sandbox menu.

Jun 15, 2022: Xcode 14 Multiplatform Migration First Look The next version for OnlineJobs will be migrated to Xcode Multiplatform. So far it is looking great. iOS macOS Both are compiled with the same SwiftUI …

Jun 12, 2022: Post-Covid Vacation Part 3 A lot has happened this week. Wedding Anniversary Last Thursday was our wedding anniversary. We decided to bring Lucas to Ayala for the first time in …

Jun 6, 2022: Pre iOS 16 - Last home screenshot This is the last phone screenshot before Apple introduces iOS 16 later today. Of course, I will install it right away as soon as Apple releases the …

Jun 6, 2022: Post-Covid Vacation Part 2 Lucas has been settling well into his new morning routine and every car ride activity for the past few days. Last Friday, it was his first evening car …

Jun 2, 2022: Android's own HTTP library I always wonder why Android doesn’t have its own HTTP library. They stopped supporting Volley and HttpURLConnection. For example on iOS, I …

May 31, 2022: Post-Covid Vacation Part 1 Day 1 Today is the first time my family has gone out together for about 2 years before Covid hits, lockdown, etc. We lived about 2-3 hours (with …

May 30, 2022: Hiring for Android SDK We are in search of “a Android SDK”. Why do I get the feeling that this email was generated by a bad case of AI/ML.

May 24, 2022: Late Git Tagging Git tagging is useful for marking the point of the release cycle of a version. But sometimes, we forget to even implement git tag. Here are some quick …

May 22, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 9: WKNavigationDelegate Next on the task is how to extend the class WKNavigationDelegate so I can call the evaluateJavascript() function. We used an ' extension' in our …

May 21, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 8: Using WebView in macOS There is no WebView in SwiftUI, so you have to use the NSViewRepresentable class. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 import SwiftUI import …

May 20, 2022: So, this is what AppKit’s TabView looks like. Not really sure if I like it or not. Might need to review Apple’s macOS UI guidelines.

May 18, 2022: Interview about Ethical Hacking I was supposed to be interviewed by the Grade 11 STEM Students from Marist School, Marikina, about Ethical Hacking. 1. Can you tell us what you know …

May 17, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 6: Async/Await with SwiftUI Today I learned how to call async/await functions with SwiftUI. This has the same flow with the sign in page but this one is using concurrency. On …

May 17, 2022: Several updates went out from Apple today: macOS Monterey 12.4, Xcode 13.4, iOS 15.5 and several others.

May 16, 2022: IT Outsourcing I read this article today about IT outsourcing and how it is affected by the war in Ukraine. Ukraine is one of the top, if not the top destination for …

May 14, 2022: Today is me and my wife’s anniversary! 6 years ago she said yes to me. Time flies!

May 14, 2022: 2022 Album of the Year Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar

May 12, 2022: Google I/O 2022 Part 2 So far I have watched the Google I/O Keynote and What’s New With Android 13. And read a couple of blogs from the Android Developer team. Below …

May 12, 2022: Google I/O 2022 Part 1 Today marks my 10th Google I/O. There is still a lot of new information to check out later. But the first thing I did was explore the virtual …

May 11, 2022: I wonder what’s wrong with Firefox?

May 11, 2022: Android Studio Chipmunk The only clear difference I noticed is Android Studio’s About page. So simple, I bet they can’t find the time to draw that Chipmunk …

May 10, 2022: Outdated Apple Documentation alert in macOS Human Interface Guidelines. Did Apple mean macOS 12?

May 10, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 5: Sign In To Home View On iOS, to transition from a SignInViewController to HomeViewController after the user successfully signs in, you just have to call the …

May 9, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 4: OnlineJobs for macOS Coming Soon Soon. Written in SwiftUI. So far I am completely sold to SwiftUI. As long as I don’t have to deal with AutoLayout anymore, that is a plus in my …

May 8, 2022: This is my current dock. As you can see I work mainly on Xcode and Android Studio. I just want to emphasize that out of place icon from IntelliJ.

May 8, 2022: Jetpack Compose Not Stable Yet Jetpack Compose is not yet stable. I could not just make it work in an existing project. There seems to be a conflict between viewBinding and compose. …

May 8, 2022: Happy Mother's Day To My Wife! Happy Mother’s Day to my wife. Thank you for everything that you do and I’m so proud of you! I missed hanging out with you in coffee …

May 7, 2022: What's your signature code? What’s your signature code? Mine is initViews(), short for “initialize views”. Since the start of my development career, this is the …

May 6, 2022: iOS 15.5 Developer Beta 4 I installed the latest iOS 15.5 Dev Beta build and so far I haven’t experienced any serious bugs or issues. Especially on the Message app, which from …

May 6, 2022: New Album Alert: Terror - Pain Into Power I liked the new Terror album. Reminds me of there old albums Lowest of the Low and One With The Underdogs. Rate: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 out of 5

May 6, 2022: Finished reading: Checkmate in Berlin by Giles Milton. Very interesting read, there were some really shocking parts that might never get out of my …

May 6, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 3 Now, the frames are static. I need the frames to be resizable. Time to Google. So eventually, you need to set maxWidth and maxHeight inside the …

May 6, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 2 Time to implement the sign in page. Welp. Ahh, forgot the frame(). 1 2 3 4 5 6 struct SignInView: View { var body: some View { Text("I'm Sign …

May 6, 2022: SwiftUI Journey Part 1: Initial Commit The start of something new in the form of SwiftUI for the macOS platform. I have no significant experience with SwiftUI, but the best way to learn is …

May 3, 2022: Why Is Hardcore Music Not Popular? In my teenage up to college years, I was into hardcore music. My friends are in a hardcore band. I was their roadie, I got to shows and support other …

Apr 28, 2022: Flutter Development Reaction Part 1 I spent majority of my mobile development career on native app development, mainly Kotlin and Swift. And this is my perspective on using Flutter for …

Apr 8, 2022: Migrate Android build configuration from Groovy to Kotlin Here are the steps I did when I migrated our Android build to Kotlin. Long story short, the reasons for migration is the syntax highlighting and …

Apr 6, 2022: Hobby Project - isitmybirthdayyet.py For my upcoming birthday, I decided to write a program just for the fun of it. My initial idea was just a simple script to convert a hex string to the …

Mar 31, 2022: StaySafe.ph Low Priority Bug I was signing up for StaySafe.ph when out of curiosity, I look around in their public HTML code and saw an exposed public key (UPLOADCARE_PUBLIC_KEY). …

Mar 30, 2022: Stackoverflow Developer Story Farewell Since Stackoverflow will sunset Developer Story, I feel a little sad because this feature has been a part of me since starting out my Android …

Feb 24, 2022: Day in the Life of a Developer Dad 7:14 AM My day begins with washing the milk bottles and the utensils of our 3 year old son. We don’t have nannies so me and my wife have always shared …

Feb 12, 2022: Postmortem: ProGuard is annoying This morning I received several crash reports from last night's release. I wasn't able to replicate this crash on my debug environment. So this …

Feb 4, 2022: UIKit Drawing Tutorial Fix I tried the tutorial from raywenderlich.com but the behavior was incorrect. The canvas or UIImageView seems to move after lifting my finger. It tried …

Feb 2, 2022: Submitting Urgent Hotfix and Apple Wasted Time I've been releasing several versions on the App Store for over 2 years now and then Apple suddenly rejected it Revise the purpose string in your …

Jan 12, 2022: Books I've Read Last 2021 For 2021, I really haven’t read that many books. So compared to last year’s list, this would be shorter. Killing The MobA Promised Land by Barack …

Nov 20, 2021: Thank you Android! I just finished reading Androids by Chet Haase, about the development journey of the Android platform towards the 1.0 release. First of all, this book …

Jul 27, 2021: iOS 15 Button Title If you encountered default titles on your UIButton when using setImage() like my situation below. As you can see on the screenshot below, I removed …

Jul 8, 2021: Realm Kotlin Tutorial First things first, make sure you followed the official Realm tutorial on how to install it on your Android project. Here's how I implemented it on my …

Jul 3, 2021: Call Multiple APIs using Coroutines Every time my app starts, I need to call 2-3 URL endpoints to get the latest data from the API. Every app encounters this scenario one way or another. …

May 30, 2021: Bluetooth printer scanning using Kotlin One of the requirements of my current project is to be able to establish Bluetooth connection and send texts to print. See the video below for the …

May 22, 2021: My 9th Google I/O This week was all about Google I/O and this year was my 9th year watching the event. I enjoyed this year’s event compared to the last 2-3 years. It …

May 21, 2021: Pass list of objects in Intent using Kotlin Every Android developer is familiar with passing data between Activities using Bundle. The old Java way was to implement Parcelable class and then you …

Apr 22, 2021: OnlineJobs for iOS (v4.5.2) Bug Last week, it was one of those times where you know something went wrong when suddenly you get multiple Slack notifications. I received a Slack …

Apr 19, 2021: Bintray Shutting Down Next month, JFrog will shut down JCenter and Bintray and my experience with their service will go along with them. Before Gradle, and all this new …

Apr 7, 2021: Dynamic TableViewCell Height I'm going to demonstrate on how I achieved the dynamic height for my UITableViewCell. Below is what it looks like. This is a UITableViewCell for …

Mar 20, 2021: Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore. Why do I say this? Well, if you've been rocking the iPhone SE 2020 you would know. What I'm saying is …

Mar 16, 2021: Code Refactoring: First Loom Video In programming, you always encounter duplicate code blocks. The best thing to do is to place it in a separate function so that we can reuse it …

Mar 7, 2021: Keepr Storage Bug Last year, I found a bug on Keepr Storage's Android app. It has the same bug as of Globe Telecom's where the API endpoint was not using secure HTTP. …

Mar 1, 2021: Play Looping Video using Swift Playing a looping video in iOS is fairly simple but there's a catch. You need to declare AVPlayerLooper global in your class. Below is the code: let …

Feb 16, 2021: Government and its Test Pages Philippine government sites are filled with "Test Pages". Not sure if this is just pure incompetence. Or a honeypot. Or lack of budget. …

Jan 17, 2021: Most active GitHub users in the Philippines Just came upon this site while I was browsing, https://commits.top/philippines_private.html Based on the ranking as of today, I am number 17 on the …

Jan 8, 2021: Create a camera shutter in Swift I'm going to show how I achieved the camera shutter button and animation using Swift, more or less the same with the stock iOS camera app. Grab a …

Jan 7, 2021: Create a custom camera preview using Swift If you are looking to create your own camera on iOS, I will demonstrate how I did it on my end. CameraPreviewView First of all you need to subclass …

Dec 26, 2020: 2020 Was a Mixed Year Mixed year because as good as the metrics are compared to last year, it saddens me that a huge number of people are laid off and companies closed …

Dec 20, 2020: Mobile App Dev 101: Technical Error Prompts are a no-no Technical error prompts are a no-no. But not that important to submit a quick fix to your pipeline. But nonetheless, the reason is that for everyday …

Dec 19, 2020: Books I’ve Read This 2020 As we close off the year 2020, I just want to share the books that I enjoyed reading. Some of this books were released this year and some are old. No …

Sep 1, 2020: Go Manila Bug I found a simple vulnerability of GoManila, the app from Manila's Office of the Mayor. The app is using Firebase for the backend and the developer …

Aug 22, 2020: Globe Telecom Rewards Bug I discovered that the Globe rewards app is communicating over insecure HTTP and because of this, it suffers from data leak. Using Wireshark I was able …

May 1, 2020: Mass Delete Firebase Authenticated Users sudo pip install firebase-admin import firebase_admin from firebase_admin import credentials from firebase_admin import authcred = …

Sep 20, 2018: Google Maps and Directions API using Kotlin I will implement below on how to implement Google Maps and Directions API using Kotlin and we are going to plot a route from origin to destination. I …

Aug 20, 2018: Implement Chromecast on iOS using Swift I am going to implement Google’s Chromecast on iOS using Swift. I will be using Google Chromecast 2 device and Xcode 9.4.1. First let’s read …

Aug 7, 2018: G Suite Happy Ending Somehow, I got Google's attention. A representative of Google (I am not sure if I can mention his name here, but I would love to, let me know) …

Aug 5, 2018: G Suite Horror Story Yesterday my life long Gmail account has been deleted by Google because I integrated it with G Suite by cancelling the subscription. G Suite for …

Jul 23, 2018: Implementing the expandable cell in iOS UITableView I’m going to implement below on how to create the expandable UITableView cell for example on iOS stock calendar. From scratch, create a new project …

Sep 8, 2010: Weezer Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/09/0… just got the new Weezer record Hurley and for me it’s their best record next to the …

Aug 22, 2010: Rhod Gilbert Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/2… He could very well be the funniest stand-up comedian.

Aug 22, 2010: The Swellers Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/2… Get this record by any means necessary.

Aug 6, 2010: Straight Edge Comic Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… I stumbled upon this on the web. The comic’s called One Path, they said it’s the first …

Aug 1, 2010: Alpha and Omega Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… At the back of my mind I always hold true the phrase “Keep Metal out of Hardcore”, like …

Aug 1, 2010: I’m Here by Spike Jonze I was introduced to Spike Jonze by the movie “Where the Wild Things Are” and nothing else. Researched a bit and found out he’s some ex-boyfriend of …

Aug 1, 2010: Lamps! Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… I bought this lamp days ago and I fucking love it.

Aug 1, 2010: Off With Their Heads Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… A good ol’ punk rock album is hard to come by nowadays. As far as i can remember the …

Aug 1, 2010: Perspectives on Drug Free Culture Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… Outside looking in, the filmmakers shed light about what really is Straight Edge. …

Aug 1, 2010: Polar Bear Club Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… Polar Bear Club has redefined post hardcore with its own unique style. This record is so …

Aug 1, 2010: Straight Edge and Proud Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… I’ve been straight edge since May 1, 2006. How bout you do the math for a change. But to …

Aug 1, 2010: The Ghost Writer Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… I’ve watched this film two days ago, I laughed at the dark humor in it and at the same …

Aug 1, 2010: Trapped Under Ice Original URL: xthekingisdeadx.wordpress.com/2010/08/0… If one would say that this is a typical American Hardcore, then that fellow is right. …