Blog

A collection of blog posts I've written. Sorted chronologically.

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Ear Tensifier v2.0.0

Over the past couple of months Ear Tensifier has seen tremendous growth. The bot is being added to 300 - 500 servers every single day and is playing music on 300 - 700 different servers at any given time.

4 minute read
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Self Hosting Ear Tensifier

Recently Youtube took down two massive Discord Bots, Rythm and Groovy. Both bots are no longer functioning due to a cease and desist letter from Google.

5 minute read
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Implementing custom filters to erela.js and Lavalink

If you're developing your own music bot using Lavalink, you're restricted to using only one type of filter, equalizer. However, you can use a modified version of Lavalink that utilizes lavadsp to provide more filters with Lavalink such as speed, pitch, tremolo, depth, and more.

5 minute read
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Discord Bots reaches 1,000,000 downloads

As of today, Discord Bots has reached 1,000,000 downloads across the App Store and Google Play Store. I started working on the Discord Bots app almost exactly a year ago and never would have expected it to grow this large.

2 minute read
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Privacy

You are being watched. Companies and services are monitoring and recording your online privacy.

2 minute read
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The problem with cross platform frameworks

Nowadays there are lots of cross platform frameworks that allow you to write one code base and deploy it to multiple platforms.

4 minute read
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Migrating website + Future plans

Today I've changed where this site is being hosted. Previously I was using GitHub Pages to host my website for free. I've had a couple limitations with GitHub Pages though.

2 minute read
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Synthesizing Voices

About a year ago I wrote an article about deepfakes and their potential threat to politicians and social media websites. Ever since then however deepfakes have not caused a huge impact on the internet and I rarely hear about them anymore.

3 minute read
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Flutter's Lack of AdMob Support

Flutter, the popular cross platform framework for building mobile apps, currently lacks support for AdMob, one of the most popular mobile ad network. Although Google recently created an official AdMob plugin for Flutter, it has only reinvented the wheel and has not provided Flutter developers with stable AdMob plugin.

5 minute read
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Flutter Internationalization with Crowdin: Part 2

Crowdin is basically a localization management tool that helps you translate your project. You can use easily invite a team of translators that can help translate your app or you can use Crowdin's in house translations.

5 minute read
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Flutter Internationalization with Crowdin: Part 1

When it comes to mobile apps, users expect your app to support their language right out the box. Although English is considered as the universal language of the world, many people barely know any English and therefore need translations in their own language. Implementing internationalization can make your app available to a wider audience, and can make your users feel more comfortable while using your app.

15 minute read
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Future plans for Discord Bots app

Over the past couple of months, I have had many ideas about features I would like to add to the app, and I decided that I'm going to dump them into a blog post. Before I start working on these features, I have decided to rewrite the entire app from scratch for many reasons...

6 minute read
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Things I hate about Windows 10

Although Windows 10 is Windows’ most popular operating system and the most popular operating system in the world, it still has some major design flaws and issues that haven’t been fixed ever since its release in 2015.

3 minute read
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The Journey to 100,000

My journey to publishing an app and reaching 100,000 downloads on the app store.

7 minute read
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Deepfake's Threat to Internet Credibility

Due to the rapid advancement in technology and artificial intelligence, we are reaching a point where nothing on the internet is believable.

2 minute read
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How to host your Discord bot on a VPS

A guide on how to host your discord bot on ubuntu. Made for people like me, who cannot figure how to do this, and people who have never done anything on Ubuntu, or touched Ubuntu before.

4 minute read