Diogo Böhm

Blog posts

  • Got regex mojo? Not so fast!

    If you think you’re a regex person (not following what XKCD has told us), and that most problems can be solved with simple (yet always too simple) regular expressions, I’ve got a challenge for you: http://regex.alf.nu/. I know a bit of regexes (use them quite a lot with VI’s search, but it’s not ECMAscript), and…

  • Back, and with hitboxes!

    Hello there! After a short break, I’m finally getting back on track! This last month has been quite a ride, so many new experiences and, while not busy busy busy, been lazy lazy lazy. 🙂 Truth is, I’ve been resting or running errands when not working, and the little time I had at home I…

  • Utter, voice actions for the Moto X impaired

    Hello there! Tonight I’m going to talk about a new app that I’ve found, reading on some blog around the interwebs… quite a generic sentence. It is a really nice and useful app called “utter!”. It claims to be a voice assistant app, but more useful than the iOS’s Siri, which is quite a claim!…

  • Learning a lot, working a little more…

    Hey there again. Well, the new project is going OK, but… while the first week was great, the second came with a surprise bomb, and now we’re trying desperately hard to beat a tight deadline for an out-of-mind scope. At least I’m learning more Java than I thought I would. No clue that this post…

  • Ancient Android root attempts on a chip RockChip tablet

    Hello there! I’ve probably mentioned earlier that I’ve got two cheap tablets, and I got to root one of them. At least I was able to update it to 2.3 (I guess, don’t remember) with the Uberdroid distro image. Well, the other one has a RockChip chipset, and that’s quite harder to do, since z4root…