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3 posts tagged “privacy”.
I built it to count our own days. The hard part was the rectangle that repaints at midnight.
A couples widget that has to be right at midnight with no app running — and what that one constraint did to the data model, the renderers, the database and the privacy story. Plus the destructive migration that wiped the installed base.
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Dhaka's transit data is all published. None of it was in a form you could query.
Every bus route, fare chart, train timetable and launch schedule in Bangladesh is public — as PDFs, scans and gazettes. This is how five of them became 2 MB of JSON that works with no connection, what it still gets wrong, and why every fare in the app carries a tilde.
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We made three video downloaders. Media Saver does all of their jobs.
Instagram and Facebook in full, six more platforms, and any website through its own browser — including HLS streams. How it extracts on your phone instead of our servers, why its downloads run on up to four connections, and exactly where your link does and does not go.
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