In a previous article, I described the process of building Flipping Cards, a language learning app that was also my very first mobile app development project. One of the long-awaited features of this app was Challenge Mode, where the user can test his knowledge in a quiz-like interface: given the…

I recently published on my Instagram profile a couple of videos where I was playing some tunes on guitar or ukulele. Since I wanted the audio to sound as good as possible I decided to record it separately, wiring the instrument directly to the Mac via an audio interface and…

As an Italian living in Berlin, I’m attending German classes, where I was introduced to the concept of flashcards for memorizing words that we learned during lesson. The idea is incredibly simple: you write down the newly learned German word on a piece of paper, and then on the back-side…

In one of my recent projects I realized, just before launching, that the website was not rendered at all in some non-modern browsers. Specifically, I tested on an old iPad running Safari on iOS 9.3.5 (which I keep exactly for testing purposes) and on an emulation of IE11. The final…