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Highlighting Text Input with Jetpack Compose

December 13, 2022

6 min read

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We recently launched a new feature at Buffer, called Ideas. With Ideas, you can store all your best ideas, tweak them until they’re ready, and drop them straight into your Buffer queue. Now that Ideas has launched in our web and mobile apps, we have some time to share

Joe Birch Senior Engineer @ Buffer

Secure Access To Opensearch on AWS

April 18, 2022

4 min read

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With the surprising swap of Elasticsearch with Opensearch on AWS. Learn how the team at Buffer achieved secure access without AWS credentials.

Peter Emil DevOps Engineer @ Buffer

Load Fonts Fast

December 09, 2021

3 min read

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At Buffer, we’re constantly experimenting with ways we can improve our products and try out new ideas. We recently launched Start Page [https://buffer.com/start-page], a beautiful, flexible, mobile-friendly landing page that you can build in minutes and update in seconds. As a Software Engineer on Buffer’s

Juliana Gomez Software Engineer @ Buffer

Migrating our component library to the Material Button

February 14, 2020

4 min read

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Header Photo byPearse O’Halloran [https://unsplash.com/@pearseoh?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] onUnsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/button?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] For our Android clients we have a small component library [https://github.com/bufferapp/android-components] which

Joe Birch Senior Engineer @ Buffer

Selectively running Android modularized unit tests on your CI server

December 20, 2019

8 min read

Header Photo by Icons8 Team [https://unsplash.com/@icons8?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/time?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Modularizing your Android projects can bring a number of different advantages to your team.

Joe Birch Senior Engineer @ Buffer

Tainting and Labeling Kubernetes Nodes to Run Special Workload — A quick guide that is finally NOT confusing

December 03, 2019

3 min read

All right folks, I intend to keep this one short and that’s what I will do. I mean, it’s supposed to be easy but the official documentation(1 [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/taint-and-toleration/], 2 [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/assign-pods-nodes/#add-a-label-to-a-node] ) makes it unnecessarily confusing.

Steven Cheng Team Buffer