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2026

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  2. Structural sharing, selectAtom, and why your jotai atoms re-render too much
  3. WTF does .box() do in Nitro Modules?
  4. The hidden cost of React.Activity
  5. React Native's Pressable mounts faster than Gesture Handler's
  6. How react-native-ease runs animations with no JavaScript loop

2025

  1. What's actually happening inside Legend List

2023

  1. It will take much longer than you think to build a company
  2. None of it matters until you try
  3. The Power of patience in software
  4. What it means to want it badly enough
  5. Some thoughts about Practical AI Tooling
  6. Working with an array of refs in React
  7. Troubleshooting Type Error Load Failed in React Native
  8. Simple Script for Expo's Eas Build Notifications in Slack
  9. Time is becoming more precious

2022

  1. My Thoughts on Messari's 2023 Thesis
  2. React Native SectionList Expand & Collapse Guide
  3. Getting Cairo, Starkware's Language Up and Running on an M1 Mac
  4. Creating Fun Selfies with Stable Diffusion
  5. Joining Backpack

2020

  1. Setting up Ikea Fyrtur Blinds in HomeAssistant without a Gateway
  2. Clustering NodeJS for Performance
  3. Quickly delete old git branches with fzf and zsh
  4. Installing Home Assistant on Ubuntu, The New Way
  5. Easily Deleting Deeply Nested Files with fd
  6. Using async / await with reduce in Javascript
  7. Using Global Node Modules The Right Way
  8. Git Checkout Tricks You've Never Heard Of
  9. Filing for Blog Bankruptcy
  10. Installing & Securing dd-wrt
  11. Protect your Home & Mobile Network with NextDNS
  12. FNM: The Fastest Node Version Manager Ever
  13. Adding Spotify to Home Assistant
  14. GraphQL Getting Past Step 3
  15. Reason Apollo Cache Update Patterns

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2016–2018

  1. Learning Higher-Order Components in React
  2. Your first ReasonML PR into an existing React Native Codebase
  3. Taming React Native’s ScrollView with flex
  4. Shaving 2 Minutes Off Our Graphcool Deployment Times
  5. Environment Variables in Expo using Release Channels
  6. Command Line Tip: Lowercase all file names in a given directory
  7. Thoughts on Structuring your Apollo Queries & Mutations
  8. Apollo Tote, Declarative Patterns and a Sneak Peek into Apollo 2.0
  9. Building High Performance Web Apps with Emotion and Next.js
  10. 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Writing Code
  11. 5 Vim Plugins I Can’t Live Without for Javascript Development
  12. Speeding up Git with SSH Config
  13. Save 20px by Going Frameless and Getting Rid of Atom’s Title Bar
  14. React Router Authentication
  15. Quickly Preview iTerm2 Themes Without Having to Import Them First
  16. Thoughts on Becoming a Better Developer
  17. React Native Android & Custom Fonts Checklist
  18. Operator Mono & Fira Code — The Best of Both Worlds
  19. Implicit imports in Webpack using ProvidePlugin
  20. Working Through cannot find module unicode/category/So in Keystone