A Better Naming and File Organization System — The curse and the gift of React.js is the fact that it is not opinionated in terms of how you structure your components and files. Do what you want and it’ll work. But with every new project it’s a “blank slate” problem. This article is written from a perspective of…

Enhancing JavaScript bot UI with localStorage — Bot interfaces are fun for the users and advantageous for those who build them (if done right). The concept isn’t new, though today it’s especially powerful. For developers, bots mean less time spent designing and building custom interfaces. It’s just text bubbles; plus many existing platforms offer to completely avoid…

Entire trip lasted around four days, half of which I spent in the air. Three different planes carried me from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, then Taipei, then San Francisco. Three more did it again in reverse order. I crossed the Pacific twice for a ten-minute meeting. A week prior, Ishtiaq…

Happy Holidays! — This is Dmitri, CTO and co-founder of Archie.AI. I would like to personally thank you for being our pioneering customer. With your support and feedback, we are able to help over a thousand businesses of various sizes understand and interact with data better. Below is a quick recap of what happened during the past twelve months. 2017 was a huge! We launched six products, amongst hundreds of features, including:

How to set up weekly email reports from your GA account with traffic & conversion summary, predictions and insights — TL;DR: Here’s the link for an app that does it for you. I spend a lot of my time working with Google Analytics. I measure visitors of an e-commerce website that sells prints, a community blog, a Kickstarter page for when my campaign was live and multiple web properties owned…

A super-simple and FREE way to publish *quality* static websites using GitHub pages. — Note 1: To perform the steps in this article you will need to know how to use GitHub and write or produce HTML. Note 2: Although this method grants you a HTTPS:// URL, it is not recommended for any websites that collect and store private user information. A couple of…

A super simple JavaScript library to build your own bot on the web — Bots are hot. It seems that every startup in the Valley wants a bot nowadays. It would be silly to think that we’ve never seen this type of interface before. Turing Test and command line interface (CLI) was around for 60+ years. Remember making payments and voting over SMS? That…

By Bailey Tovar — I love taking pictures. I believe that a photograph can preserve a single moment in ever-changing reality, forever. As we move forward in time, constantly altering our existence it’s nice to look back at old images and know that the memory we hold dear can be relieved again and again. …

An exploration of a beautiful season through film cameras — Note to the reader: A new edition of “November, On Film,” along with more photo essays by 80+ authors can be found here. Every couple of days I go through photography, art and story submissions. My objective is usually to find images and stories that work well together and are able to form a…