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Side Project Time Hacks – Automated Android App Screenshots

May 8, 2020

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In today’s Side Project Time Hack post, I’m covering how I’ve automated the process of taking new store listing screenshots for my Android apps and showing how much time the automation saves me. Across everything involved in developing and maintaining a mobile app, I challenge you to find a task more tedious than keeping the store listing screenshots up to date. Screenshots are among the best tools you have to convince potential new users to click ‘Download’ on…

GitUpdated – Automating My Git Repository Maintenance with Python

July 19, 2019

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GitUpdated: A command line tool for easily managing and updating multiple git repos. Part of my Side Project Time Hack series. I’ve accumulated quite the menagerie of Git repositories throughout the years and recently I’ve found myself doing more work on-the-go. Nowadays I am frequently switching between a laptop when traveling and a desktop PC or home server when home. It became a nuisance to work on these codebases from each of my different environments. For example, if I…

Side Project Time Hacks: Automating Android App Performance Reports

August 12, 2018

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Side Project Time Hacks: Automating Android App Performance Reports Introduction: The most recent post in my series on Side Project Time Hacks was about how I automated my Android apps’ store listing descriptions with a small program written in an afternoon. While I’ve already saved several hours with that tool since I finished it, I felt that the following side project time hack project needed to be something of larger scale in order to better demonstrate the breadth of…

Side Project Time Hacks: Automating My Apps’ Store Listings

July 27, 2018

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Side Project Time Hacks: Automating My Apps’ Store Listings In my last post, I introduced the concept of programming small personal utilities as a means to improve your efficiency in order to squeeze more time out of the day. I also explained that it really doesn’t take much programming knowledge or experience at all to create something that makes a significant impact on your day to day operations. As my first post in this indefinite series, I’d…

Side Project Time Hacks: Series Introduction

July 25, 2018

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Side Project Time Hacks: Series Introduction Introduction Throughout the past few years of working on side projects outside of a full time career, I’ve often come across a somewhat annoying problem: there never seems to be enough time in each day to get the things I need to do done. I eventually got so fed up with my “to-do list” growing faster than I could cross things off that I decided to investigate the problem and see if…