Gift-card and tech support scams are on the rise in the United States, causing a reported loss of 148 million dollars in 2021. Although consumer education reduces harm and police investigations help make the cost of running these scams more difficult, some simple systems can be implemented by companies that…

Bank, support, and gift card scams are on the rise in the United States, causing a reported loss of 148 million dollars in 2021. While consumer education helps reduce harm and police investigations help make the cost of running these scams more difficult, some simple systems can be implemented by…

This article will show you how to call functions from a C module in Swift, with the module source written in GoLang. The Module The module can be written in any language, so long as it’s compiled into binary. …

If you are reading this, you are working on some edge-case! You have a GoLang project that needs to run inside an iOS program. You could re-write everything in Swift but you are hoping it will be easier to just compile GoLang as a module. Good news: It is possible! …

In this article we will learn how to build a simple gRPC client in React Native by bridging a native module on iOS / Swift 5. Overview At the time of writing, gRPC isn’t supported by React Native. iOS supports it though. React Native was designed to talk to Objective-C in…

In this article we will look at how to call native Swift modules from React Native React Native was developed to support Objective-C native modules, but not Swift, so there’s a little trickery involved. There are a few reasons why you might want to use native modules: The OS performs…

In this article we will learn how to build a simple gRPC client in iOS / Swift 5. What is gRPC gRPC is a way for clients and servers to communicate with each other over the Internet. It is intended as an upgrade from REST APIs, with some great features: It transmits faster…

In this article we will learn how to build a simple gRPC server in NodeJS. What is gRPC gRPC is a way for clients and servers to communicate with each other over the Internet. It is intended as an upgrade from REST APIs, with some great features: It transmits faster by using a…

VPNs are increasingly popular as more people are traveling, working from abroad, and increasingly aware of the risks of data leaks on the Internet. With that, renting a VPN service is increasingly easy and inexpensive, but sometimes it might be nice to have your very own VPN. …