Styling a Google Map

Google offers a very impressive map service.  Between JS and CSS, styling is usually very straightforward with tools like the Styling Wizard from Google: https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/ However, some things can fall through the cracks.  Point of the matter –...

Thematic fonts

Google fonts is a pretty awesome collection of web fonts.  There must be at least 500 of them.  Recently, I’ve gone through all of them for a project and, because it is such a time-consuming task, I took note of fonts that could possibly be used for very...

Android native development disappointment

Google does a lot of good things.  Unfortunately, welcoming new developers to its primary OS is not one of them.  I’ve spent the past 4-5 days developing a number of Android apps as proofs for a new project.  My overall experience has been lackluster and I want...