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Feb 28, 2019

On Pagedraw’s Performance Engineering

tl;dr: don’t use performance as an unsubstantiated excuse to write convoluted code — A lot of people on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19273403 responded to what we wrote about performance: Performance is never a justification for anything if you haven’t measured it Technical lessons from building a compiler startup for 3 years Pagedraw recently shut down and is now open source. Pagedraw is a UI builder like Sketch + a compiler that translates…medium.com

Software Development

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Software Development

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Jun 28, 2018

Judaic approaches to API deprecation

Orthodox: the API was set down in the specification generations ago. Even if it’s wildly out of date and doesn’t make sense anymore, we’re still going to support it. …

API

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API

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Published in Pagedraw

·Mar 22, 2018

Pagedraw & Figma integration

If you’re using Figma for UI/UX design, Pagedraw can now turn those mockups into React code for your developers — We are super happy to announce that Pagedraw now supports Figma designs! Our mission is to help companies build delightful products. The key to that is speed of iteration and efficient collaboration between the Design, Development and Product teams. With the new Pagedraw<>Figma integration, you can help the Design team…

Design

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Pagedraw & Figma integration
Pagedraw & Figma integration
Design

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Published in Pagedraw

·Mar 8, 2018

Launch HN: Pagedraw — Compile UI Mockups to React Code

Originally posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16467387. This is Pagedraw’s Launch HN post, preserved here for posterity. Click the link to see the original comments. Hi HN! We’re Jared and Gabe (YC W18), the founders of Pagedraw (https://pagedraw.io). Pagedraw is a UI builder that turns mockups into React code. Pagedraw lets you annotate…

Front End Development

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Launch HN: Pagedraw — Compile UI Mockups to React Code
Launch HN: Pagedraw — Compile UI Mockups to React Code
Front End Development

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Published in Pagedraw

·Feb 27, 2018

Pagedraw is hiring full time engineers and interns, 2018 edition

Like developer tools? Web development? Compilers? Join us at Pagedraw, a startup that gives designers the superpowers of developers. Founded by Harvard undergrads, Pagedraw solves the problem of time wasted writing HTML and CSS code. At the core, we are a compiler that takes as input drawings like this: Pagedraw…

Web Development

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Pagedraw is hiring full time engineers and interns, 2018 edition
Pagedraw is hiring full time engineers and interns, 2018 edition
Web Development

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Published in Pagedraw

·Mar 23, 2017

Is anyone doing in-process Chaos Monkey?

Netflix has a program called “chaos monkey” to make servers, processes, and requests fail at random, even in production, to force themselves to reliably handle the failures inherent in distributed systems. In distributed systems, things will sometimes fail at random, so robust error handling is required. Chaos Monkey itself does…

Microservices

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Is anyone doing in-process Chaos Monkey?
Is anyone doing in-process Chaos Monkey?
Microservices

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Sep 6, 2010

C Switch for Non-Integers

In C, and thus Objective-C, a switch statement only works with integers, and the case labels all need to be constant. Strings seem like a natural thing to switch on, especially for command line interfaces. Unfortunately, they cannot be reduced to integer constants, so we cannot use them. …

Objective C Extensions

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Objective C Extensions

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Sep 1, 2010

Call any super class’s implementation of any method

In Objective-C, you can only call an overridden implementation of a method from an immediate subclass of that method’s class. This works well to provide encapsulation, and based on the way super is handled, a super method implementation cannot be called from any but the immediate superclass (inheritance notwithstanding). This…

Objective C Extensions

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Objective C Extensions

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Aug 15, 2010

My Higher Order Message Implementation

Note: This is not an original idea of mine. For a good explanation of what Higher Order Messaging is, see this paper. The Idea There are some great implementations of higher order messaging, but this is not one of them. Instead, this is an implementation of a HigherOrderMessage object, which is designed…

Objective C Extensions

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Objective C Extensions

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