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A Proposal to Improve Phishing Security for Major Social Media Providers Supporting 3rd Party Integration

July 17, 2020

It seems like every day I see headlines for a new security breach with the potential to affect millions of people and result in untold financial damage. Take yesterday’s Twitter breach for example – where hackers tweeted on behalf of influential political figures and celebrities such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, and Kanye West with a Bitcoin donation scam promising that they would double any Bitcoin payments sent to the supplied wallet address. It’s been…

How and Why You Should Prepare Your Apps for an AdSense Ban

January 19, 2020

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Sudden bannings on AdSense – how it happened to me, how it can happen to you too, and how you can prepare your projects for it. AdSense is one of Google’s flagship products and is a massive advertising network that allows online publishers to monetize their projects by serving ads on their content. AdSense can be used by website and blog maintainers, app developers (with AdMob – which sits on top of AdSense), and even YouTubers to make a…

100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers

January 24, 2019

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100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers Last month I reached a significant milestone for my Android portfolio by surpassing 100k app downloads across my Google Play account. I’ve been publishing Android apps to the Play Store since 2015 and working on Android projects since 2014 – giving me nearly 5 years of experience with the platform. The milestone got me thinking about my early projects and how awful they were, along with all the lessons I…

What I Learned From Redesigning My App’s Feature Graphic

June 30, 2018

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What I Learned From Redesigning My App’s Feature Graphic I’ve mentioned this before in previous blog posts, but I’ve had to wear a lot of different hats in my past few years of personal app development work. Sometimes one of those hats happens to be “graphic designer” – which is one of my least developed skills in my app development arsenal. At the end of the day, I’m just a programmer with a mediocre knowledge of GIMP keyboard shortcuts.…