Using JavaScriptCore in a Production iOS App

This post is about why we chose to use JavaScriptCore and what we learned. The biggest challenges to using JavaScriptCore in a production app were performance optimization for older devices and getting the build process right. Luckily, these problems…

Why We Wrote Yet Another SAML Library

If there’s one thing the NPM community is famous for, its fragmentation. For many engineering problems, we’ve shot right past “there’s a module for that!” to “how do I choose one of these five similar packages?” — so it might seem counter-intuitive to author a new…

The Data Exploration Tool You’ve Been Elasticsearching For

5 questions you may want to ask yourself before accepting your first web dev job

Congratulations! You’re about to embark on an exciting new chapter in your career. But, before jumping into an opportunity, you may want to consider some of the following questions while…

What’s in a room?

To a human being, this tends to be a simple question. We can look at a table in front of us and quickly determine whether it is enclosed in a surrounding set of walls, but our ability to do this and record the result is limited to a few iterations per second. When Social Tables set out to build a…

What We’re Reading — January 26, 2016

A curated selection of interesting links shared, and discussed, in our #what-we_re-reading…

#WHATWE’REREADING — April 10, 2016