Iain Collins

Hacks/Hackers London receives Google funding to help it grow

How Writing Closed Captions Turned Me off TV For Good

Post-MFA, a writer spends time in the captioning…

Import web pages into Sketch

Sometimes you need to tweak or slightly redesign an existing web page without original assets. Some common…

Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text with Zero-Width Characters

Don’t want to read? Try the demo

Zero-width characters are invisible, ‘non-printing’ characters that are not displayed by the majority of…

INTERACTIVE JOURNALISM

2016 workshop | Journalism School Science Po Paris

Good question. There’s a huge number of solid, mature options. I’d suggest Material-UI, React-bootstrap, react-toolbox, and semantic UI. But check out the awesome-react list for a full list.

Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

I think it’s even more worrisome that there’s a need for isOdd() in so many packages and applications. I’ve been writing code professionally since 1981 and I think I’ve…

tldr; prefer PureComponent over Component, but never mutate your objects (and use other best practices)

When to use Component or PureComponent

7 Reasons to Outlaw React’s Functional Components

Are React’s Functional Components Worth The Cost?

Coffee and cancer: what Starbucks might have argued