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API Design Case Studies: Intersection Types

API Design Case Studies: Intersection Types

My team recently cleaned up an API in an internal storage library. While it’s a simple case, it covers a couple interesting language tools and tradeoffs. Let’s dig in! The starting pointIt’s a function called enumStoreKeys that returns a Set of StoreKey enums for a given classKey.

Detecting Blurriness with Renderscript

About three years ago, I worked on a project at Uber to try to detect when photos taken client-side were blurry. The goal was to be able to fail fast, ask the user to retake them if necessary, and save the cycle of waiting for something we could programmatically determine

Announcing AutoDispose 1.0

Announcing AutoDispose 1.0

About two years ago, just after migrating my CatchUp [https://github.com/hzsweers/CatchUp] side project to RxJava 2, I started a branch called “boundObservers” to try out an idea I had for RxLifecycle-style automatic disposal of streams. I rewrote it from scratch a few times after, and a couple