All blog posts tagged with 2018
An analysis of communication tools in coworking spaces, comparing Slack, Facebook Groups, and LinkedIn, and introducing Communify as a purpose-built platform for fostering local collaboration and community.
A shift in measuring productivity from passive learning and time spent to active creation and hands-on coding, introducing the Groundhog Day 100 Days of Code challenge.
A critical reflection on the risks of global internet uniformity and platform manipulation, arguing that decentralized regional diversity provides safer experimentation for humanity.
A controversial take on coding practices advocating for inline styles and WET code over DRY principles to prioritize development speed and reduce abstraction overhead.
A detailed step-by-step guide for publishing Expo apps to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, covering configuration, builds, credentials, screenshots, and updates.
A philosophical exploration of humanity's environmental impact and potential solutions, discussing climate-control, evolution-control, and population management as strategies for creating a sustainable future.
Exploring how different physical and digital environments can create focused immersion states for various goals, especially when living in limited spaces or traveling.
A personal reflection on maintaining a disciplined EAT, CODE, KITE, REPEAT routine in Bali, setting ambitious goals for building community software and creating sustainable technology solutions.
Seven key principles for maintaining high code quality, balancing concerns like DRY principles, naming conventions, external dependencies, and reducing time-to-context.
An exploration of component organization strategies in React Native, introducing a folder structure based on component types including fat, pure, screen, wrapper, and universal components.
An analysis of seven technological and cultural trends making solo app development increasingly viable, from React Native and Apollo GraphQL to open-source libraries and Moore's law.
Observations on how professional collaborations in coworking spaces still rely heavily on coincidence, and why location-based networking platforms are needed for digital nomads.
Introducing iProud, a productivity to-do app for entrepreneurs built in 2 weeks after 6 months of learning, designed to help users make lists, complete tasks, and connect with others.
A brief celebration of successfully launching MasterCrimeZ to both iOS App Store and Google Play Store after 4 months of development.
An exploration of performance optimization strategies for GraphQL servers built with Node.js, covering benchmarking, database pooling, Dataloader, and production deployment techniques.
Technical considerations for connecting React Native apps to servers, covering SSL requirements, CloudFlare configuration, error handling, and connection testing strategies.
A quick overview of essential development tools and productivity apps for building React Native applications, including VSCode, ESLint, Prettier, RescueTime, and WakaTime.
Technical notes on the four methods of updating Apollo's client-side cache, comparing automatic updates, refetchQueries, manual store manipulation, and optimistic responses.
A comprehensive guide to setting up your own GraphQL backend with Node.js, Express, Sequelize, and MySQL, including deployment to a remote server with Nginx and SSL configuration.
A comprehensive cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts and terminal commands for VSCode, MacOS, React Native Simulator, Chrome DevTools, and common Git workflows.
A decision framework for choosing between web and native app development, evaluating capabilities, platform preferences, user acquisition, retention strategies, and cost considerations including PWAs versus React Native.
A comprehensive comparison of Expo versus bare React Native and ExpoKit, outlining advantages like build automation and OTA updates, and disadvantages including app size constraints.
A comprehensive guide to building an MVP in 100 days using React Native and Expo, covering coding style decisions, architecture choices, work ethic, and a detailed workflow from setup to launch.
A step-by-step workflow for creating GraphQL queries in a full-stack React Apollo application, from schema definition to client-side implementation.
A humorous exploration of different mental modes developers shift between while coding, from debugging to perfecting UI, illustrated through fictional programmer personalities.
A reflection on the concept of intermittent hyper immersion shifts and how regularly changing environments accelerates personal growth and learning through challenging assumptions.
A technical deep-dive into timezone handling issues when using Sequelize vs mysql2 in Node.js, exploring how different ORMs process timestamps differently and cause validation problems.
A personal manifesto outlining ambitious 2018 goals, using fear-setting and extreme accountability measures to build two apps while pursuing a vision of working productively in paradise.