I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d started dabbling with Android. This incredible journey brought me to the realm of in-app purchase validation which is part of what the Google Cloud Platform offers. This is ideal if you already use one of the dozen services they provide, like BigQuery and such. In my case, all I was looking for was a way to validate my purchases, so I found the documentation a little bit overwhelming and got lost quite a few times. Since nearly broke my sanity, I figured I would share what I’ve learned.
2025 - Week 04
- 🧶 My friend finally received the gift I built for him as part of a Secret Santa, you can see the pictures on my mastodon profile. I’ve tackled a few projects like this in 2024 and it’s been stimulating, although just like programming or I guess any other activity, I drastically underestimated the amount of time it took me.
2025 - Week 03
In 2023, I decided to start writing weekly notes and I ended up posting only 2. I’m hoping to do better this year, without putting too much pressure on myself either.
Scrobbler, No Scrobbling!
I stopped using Last.fm a while ago for reasons I can’t explain without using the shrug emoji. From discovering new artists using recommendations to having a pointless competition with friends about your total number of “scrobbled” songs, as well as starting to dabble with APIs and building fun stuff, I used to love Last.fm. Today I ran into a post from Niléane about her Last.fm profile and it made me wanna write about it.
Cheating with rounded percentages and floating-point numbers
My friends are mean sometimes, but as they were making fun of my maths skills, they also pointed to a valid error on the website. On a specific page of Comics-Outmash, a list of percentages are displayed. They looked totally legit, except that once you added them all up, the total was a little bit more than 100%. This is easy to fix if you’re not afraid of massaging the numbers.