With less supply in non-US markets, Amazon is trying to go “Global” — Amazon has selectively rolled out a “global store” badge and increased supply dramatically in their international marketplaces. [Example] Notice the Slight differences: UK Global Store Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Honey-Can-Do-STO-02883-Magazine-Banana-Basket/dp/B00H34G3IE US Amazon.com Link: http://amzn.to/2C1lrIh As shown below, the badge lets customers know they can have things delivered from the US after its properly imported through customs and duties…

Pushing our humble landing page to a new frontier. — Recently I wanted to give our landing page a little upgrade. Google Analytics showed 90% of our visitors are on desktop and the other few remaining people are on iphones! I decided to try out adding a fancy background video. The majority of posts about this will show you how…

The famous Amazon patent expiration could signal a shift in things to come. — Amazon’s 1-Click patent is expiring and it only means one thing: 📈 Lets close our eyes and imagine never typing your credit card number ever again… Like the soft sound of nature, birds chirping 🐦, rivers flowing… Our smart phones would become useful again. The 1-click functionality could have made our lives easier Until now our friends at Amazon had it locked down behind a patent.

Falcon Punch & Alexanderson — I have had the geekiest crush on falcon-punch since a long time ago when releasing blah blah. So much love in that track. Today is a new day. But is the time borrowed? My first favorite track by falcon punch: Facebook — www.facebook.com/falconpunchofficial/ Instagram — www.instagram.com/falconpunchmusic/ Spotify — open.spotify.com/artist/6BIBBG2t4XviEM2XfnNAUd Soundcloud — @falcon-punch

Releasing an album that sat for years — My buddies at viper creek club always churn out music and side projects that I find fun to listen to. Last week they decided to post some new tunes under pseudonym “The Woods”

Maybe how to get an idea for yourself — I recently saw a fun conversation on twitter about working remote with tons of replies and thought I’d offer my story and opinion about the subject. Back in the day(2015) I was working for REDACTED as a senior frontend engineer. Shit was dope. …

A look at componentDidCatch and componentStack — React has long needed a solution for handling errors. For ReactV15 use handle_unstableError Since early React development, it was fairly common for a small component throwing an error to break your entire application. As confirmed recently on github, React Core has decided to implement a built-in function called componentDidCatch …

Amazon’s new brand page experiences take advantage of Facebook’s Interface Framework! — This article was originally posted on our blog — Blair As Amazon’s 3rd party merchant network continues to grow, its nice to see they also continue building tools for brands and vendors in their network! I run Growth and Business Development at an Amazon Manufacturers Representative Agency which means we…

Followup to “You probably don’t need redux”. My last article lamented the over-use/over-hype of using redux in your react apps. I’m not against redux, but I think react is better when you really understand it before pushing yourself to use redux. It got…