• How react-native-ease runs animations with no JavaScript loop

  A deep dive into how react-native-ease hands animations entirely to Core Animation on iOS and ObjectAnimator on Android, with zero per-frame JavaScript involvement.

• What's actually happening inside Legend List

  An interactive simulator showing how Legend List decides what to render, how many containers to create, and where the scroll buffer zones land.

• It will take much longer than you think to build a company

  An honest look at how founders consistently underestimate timelines — from landing the first customer to building something truly sustainable.

• None of it matters until you try

  Why the only real way to learn if your business idea works is to stop planning and start trying — even when you feel unprepared.

• The Power of patience in software

  The underrated skill that separates good engineers from great ones: slowing down to fully understand a problem before jumping to a solution.

• What it means to want it badly enough

  What 'wanting it badly enough' actually means in practice for founders and builders — turning abstract motivation into concrete, consistent action.

• Some thoughts about Practical AI Tooling

  Early ideas on what practical AI tooling infrastructure might look like — model hosting, evaluation pipelines, and the product gaps that still exist.

• Working with an array of refs in React

  How to manage an array of React refs for a dynamic list of inputs, including a pattern for forwarding focus to the next TextInput.

• Troubleshooting Type Error Load Failed in React Native

  How I tracked down and fixed the cryptic TypeError: Load Failed error in a React Native app — what causes it and how to resolve it.

• Simple Script for Expo's Eas Build Notifications in Slack

  Expo doesn't currently have a way to send updates when a build succeeds or fails. I created this simple script for Cloudflare Workers.

• Time is becoming more precious

  How do I make sure that I'm focusing on what's most important?

• My Thoughts on Messari's 2023 Thesis

  My personal reflections and reactions to Messari's 2023 crypto thesis, covering the macro trends and bets I agree and disagree with.

• React Native SectionList Expand & Collapse Guide

  Getting a SectionList working with expand/collapse using the extraData prop and a Set data structure.

• Getting Cairo, Starkware's Language Up and Running on an M1 Mac

  A practical guide to getting StarkWare's Cairo language installed and running on an Apple M1 Mac, filling in the gaps the official docs leave out.

• Creating Fun Selfies with Stable Diffusion

  How I used Stable Diffusion to generate creative selfie-style images, including the prompts and settings that produced the best results.

• Joining Backpack

  Announcing that I've joined Backpack to lead mobile engineering and build the future of crypto on mobile.

• Setting up Ikea Fyrtur Blinds in HomeAssistant without a Gateway

  How to connect IKEA Fyrtur smart blinds to Home Assistant without the IKEA gateway, keeping your existing remote and repeater setup intact.

• Quickly delete old git branches with fzf and zsh

  A short zsh function using fzf that lets you interactively select and delete old Git branches without hunting through git branch output.

• Installing Home Assistant on Ubuntu, The New Way

  How to correctly install Home Assistant Supervised on Ubuntu after the documentation changed and the Supervisor panel went missing from Docker installs.

• Easily Deleting Deeply Nested Files with fd

  How to use fd, the modern find replacement, to quickly locate and delete deeply nested files across a project without complex glob syntax.

• Using async / await with reduce in Javascript

  A quick, practical example showing how to correctly use async/await inside JavaScript's Array reduce function without losing resolved values.

• Using Global Node Modules The Right Way

  Stop re-installing the same global node modules for every version of Node

• Git Checkout Tricks You've Never Heard Of

  Lesser-known git checkout tricks for cleanly removing committed files and cherrypicking changes without the hassle of revert or cherry-pick.

• Filing for Blog Bankruptcy

  I am *so* fed up of trying to get my blog l00kin' right

• Installing & Securing dd-wrt

  I recently upgraded my TP-Link Archer c9 version 1 router to use dd-wrt. It’s powerful as it is but the additional…

• Protect your Home & Mobile Network with NextDNS

  NextDNS is the privacy-enabled tool you’ve been waiting for. It’s like Pi-hole but runs in the cloud. Right now it’s…

• FNM: The Fastest Node Version Manager Ever

  Why fnm (Fast Node Manager) is the best replacement for nvm and n — written in Rust, it switches Node versions nearly instantly.

• Adding Spotify to Home Assistant

  Step-by-step guide to integrating Spotify with Home Assistant after the configuration change introduced in version 106 and later.

• GraphQL Getting Past Step 3

  Practical patterns for moving beyond the GraphQL basics: cache updates, optimistic responses, and structuring queries in a real production app.

• Reason Apollo Cache Update Patterns

  Practical patterns for managing Apollo cache updates in ReasonML — optimistic responses, refetchQueries, and manually updating lists after mutations.

• Learning Higher-Order Components in React

  We're building a general purpose loading screen

• Your first ReasonML PR into an existing React Native Codebase

  Type-safe, fast with a similar syntax to javascript makes it an obvious choice.

• Taming React Native’s ScrollView with flex

  Is it flex? Is it the ScrollView?

• Shaving 2 Minutes Off Our Graphcool Deployment Times

  In as little as 1 minute

• Environment Variables in Expo using Release Channels

  Makes it easy to release to multiple environments

• Command Line Tip: Lowercase all file names in a given directory

  If I didn't write about it, I'd forget it.

• Thoughts on Structuring your Apollo Queries & Mutations

  After using Apollo for the last few months, I've picked up some great patterns

• Apollo Tote, Declarative Patterns and a Sneak Peek into Apollo 2.0

  A guest post on the Apollo GraphQL Blog

• Building High Performance Web Apps with Emotion and Next.js

  How to use Emotion, one of the fastest CSS-in-JS libraries, with Next.js to ship performant server-rendered styles with an API similar to styled-components.

• 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Writing Code

  I’ve been paying it forward for the last two years by teaching newer programmers how to craft their code. On an informal basis, I’ll guide…

• 5 Vim Plugins I Can’t Live Without for Javascript Development

  I’m constantly looking for ways I can improve my workflows and development environment.

• Speeding up Git with SSH Config

  A simple SSH config trick borrowed from Paul Irish's dotfiles that noticeably speeds up Git operations over SSH connections.

• Save 20px by Going Frameless and Getting Rid of Atom’s Title Bar

  That's an extra line of code in your editor!

• React Router Authentication

  An easy way to route based on a logged in user

• Quickly Preview iTerm2 Themes Without Having to Import Them First

  Faster access to themes

• Thoughts on Becoming a Better Developer

  Reflections on what separates truly great engineers — deliberate practice, deep thinking before coding, and lessons from watching world-class developers work.

• React Native Android & Custom Fonts Checklist

  A checklist to make fonts easier to manage

• Operator Mono & Fira Code — The Best of Both Worlds

  Making your terminal editor font beautiful

• Implicit imports in Webpack using ProvidePlugin

  Get rid of commonly used import statements

• Working Through cannot find module unicode/category/So in Keystone

  Fixing Keystone's unicode problem