mark cerqueira

Nintendo continued the laying to rest of the Wii U this week by porting Donkey Kong Country (DKC) Tropical Freeze to the Switch.

When I first started working as an engineer I relied a lot on pattern-matching (find solved problems similar to mine and adapt the solution to fit my requirements) and leaning on peers for direction, advice, and feedback.

Picking Jekyll running on GitHub Pages for this blog five years ago has been one of the better (lucky) technical decisions I made as both products continue to get tender love and care.

With the recent release of Dominaria, we’re blessed with new cards to ogle and new decks to construct.

Over the past year the reputation of the United States has taken several blows and fallen, but mark.gg continues to rise as an excellent place for all things amazing.

I’ve been working on setting up a UI testing framework for the Android team here at Twitch.

This unit’s Chinese assignment has us going to a birthday party.

This week renowned security guru Brian Krebs posted (yet another) great article on how people knowingly give away historical information on social media that can sometimes reveal answers to that person’s security questions.

Ni no Kuni 2 (NNK2) has had me glued to my PS4 every waking moment I have at home.

Earlier I wrote about my love for and getting stuck in Super Mario RPG, my first JRPG.

I’m a big believer in programming languages living in an ecosystem and not in a vacuum chamber.

This week’s Chinese unit has us covering everything about hotels (酒店, jiǔdiàn).

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 developer Monolith Soft released a doozy of a patch – 1.3.0 – today.

In the Twitch Android app we leverage some native C++ code.

Writing about how Super Mario RPG was my first love the other day brought back another memory that has stuck with me.

Chinese has a bunch of pithy four-character idioms that capture a teaching.

On this Valentine’s Day, love is in the air!

Breath of the Wild is now the first game I’ve replayed (on the Switch) within a year of my first playthrough (on the Wii U).

We could all learn a thing about great feedback loops from the developers of the oddly-named Octopath Traveler.

In one of my proudest moments in my professional career, a coworker called me “the glue of the team.”

Rivals of Ixalan has been out for a week now so Jeff and I have had plenty of time to pour over all the cards released in this expansion.

And that’s a wrap on my most anticipated game of 2017: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (XBC2).

Twitch streamers rejoice!

I’ve been entangled with Xcode a bit recently and I’ve added to my arsenal a scratchpad in a simple text editor with just this text: #imageLiteral(resourceName: "name") Why?

Jeff, a fellow Android teammate, and I are excited to announce the creation of The Gentlemans Draft!

My journey into Xenoblade Chronicles 2 continues.

As we close out 2017 I reflect on the ridiculous year we’ve had in the video game world.

Visiting home during the holiday season reaffirms my family’s belief that software engineers and computer technicians are one in the same!

Well, something highly unexpected just happened: I won the BaseTradeTV Sponsor Showdown!

I’m deep into Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and loving it so far!

At TwitchCon a few weeks ago I was able to meet the great folks behind BaseTradeTV.

People come up with the best comebacks in the shower long after the comeback would’ve been useful.

Languages are interesting things.

We’ve been drafting Ixalan a lot lately at Twitch.

The previous Chinese school unit had us at a hair salon getting a haircut, something I’m pretty unfamiliar with.

Learning Chinese has its challenges but conjugating verbs is not one of them.

I picked up Super Mario Odyssey on release day because, while platformers are not my favorite genre, Mario games are a genre unto itself.

The first KotlinConf has come and gone and it was a blast to attend the two day conference on this budding language.

There are three books in N.K.

The latest Chinese school unit we’re covering is about visiting a hair salon and getting a hair cut.

Tina está aprendendo português e enquanto meu português não é perfeito eu aprendi uma coisa o outra dia na aula dela!

@JvmStatic and @JvmField are well-known annotations that can be used in Kotlin files to expose companion object methods and constants.

Inundated by notifications on my phone, a month ago I started aggressively long-pressing notifications and disabling all but the ones I find truly important (e.g. text message from girlfriend, MCanning going live on Twitch).

I’m (only) 16 hours into Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana after only having it for a few days!

It’s been a few months (ages when talking about code bases) since I’ve done any work on the ChuckPad Sinatra server and iOS API wrapper but this week I added support: Setting location (latitude and longitude) on patches API to fetch a random set of patches

The core gameplay loop of SteamWorld Dig 2 is pretty simple: go into mines, dig your way down, collect ores and gems, sell said items, and power yourself up to make this entire process faster and easier.

Everyone remembers the day they saw Goku go Super Saiyan 3 for the first time.

There are many ways to QA your product.

This is the level of faith I have in Monolith Soft and the power of Xenoblade: I picked up a Wii U for Xenoblade Chronicles X and am soon picking up a Switch now that the release date for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (XC2) has been revealed.

I previously wrote about how unwanted permissions can sneak into your APK during manifest merging and how one can undeclare permissions.