React Native

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to future of the web

Building an Emotional Weather App

Today I’m excited to announce a new app I’ve been working on in my spare time called Basic Weather…

React, Facebook, and the Revocable Patent License. Why It’s a Paper 🐯.

As Gertrude Stein might admonish, “there’s no there there.”

The Internet (aka Hacker News) worked itself into another tizzy over Facebook’s React patent retaliation clause. Let’s…

How to never miss, or even answer, a buzzer call from friends ever again (1/2)

In this two-part post I will explain how to build this fancy tool to let friends into your apartment easily.

Going (React) Native

Can a group of React.js developers learn how to rapidly produce cross-platform mobile apps? Can we pass these mobile apps…

Make output readable again: Controlling your IO streams in node.

It’s no secret that javascript builds have become complicated. The latest rewrite of a boilerplate I am writing requires commands from all of the following projects: Haul-cli, react-native-cli, lerna, jest, webpack…

Meteor + React Native = Simplicity + Productivity

Redux-First Router data-fetching: solving the 80% use case for async Middleware

React Binding Patterns: 5 Approaches for Handling `this`

JavaScript’s this keyword behavior has confused developers for ages.

Chain React 2017

First, hats off to @infinite_red for throwing together a stellar conference. You would think they’ve done a bunch of these with how well organized the whole thing was (Power strips in every row of the auditorium? Killer.). With this post, I’m merely attempting to brain dump some short-term…