Update: Basho’s README on GitHub is more recent and accurate. Basho itself has changed significantly, and now evaluates lazily and only as needed. I was faced with a rather mundane task last week. I had to clone my work from GitHub to GitLab, clean up the projects list and append…

Summary of features: Streaming UI Components (via generators) Async route handling Easy integration with Redux, MobX and the like Server-side Rendering Powerful nested routes Avoid re-implementing features which already exist in HTML/JS Minimal learning curve GitHub Repo: https://github.com/nsoap-official/sailboat NSOAP — A Routing Convention for JavaScript One of the big lessons from the success of React is that…

By some distance, the most widely used state management library in the React Universe is Redux. It has everything going for it; great documentation, active community, fantastic core team and great adoption. Perhaps more importantly, Redux design patterns allow clear separation of concerns. …

There is a cottage industry of articles explaining why photographers shouldn’t share RAW files with clients. This isn’t a minority opinion; it is a well-entrenched, vigorously-defended idea among photographers. Alice is one among them. …

Marshall Smith is a relatively unknown tinkerer. Living a quiet life, he rarely stepped out of his small, some may say tiny social circle. On most days Marshall is at work in his basement with mechanical devices of different forms and sizes, some of which may bear the name of…

Or why Microsoft’s recent Open Source announcements are likely to have very limited impact — I woke up to some interesting news from Microsoft’s Build Conference. Microsoft is creating a community called the .Net Foundation with the aim of open sourcing key components of the .Net framework. As part of it, they also announced an open source C# compiler called Roslyn. It seems that their…

Or how patents changed the way I look at capitalism today — I have always supported Capitalism. Just like most other people, freedom is among the most fundamental of rights I cherish and Capitalism appeared to protect it better than other economic models. Being an entrepreneur (of fairly limited consequence I must add), a system that supported and rewarded independent innovation seemed…

I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen are irrelevant to me. If I scrolled down I can find 4 stories I actually care about, from a list of about 30. …

I am excited about the changes Marissa Mayer is making at Yahoo. The company is back in the news, there is excitement in the air, stock prices have soared. But from what we have seen in the past week, I can’t help think that Yahoo doesn’t really get design. Flickr…