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Building Better Views (Part I)

As iOS developers, a lot of our work involves taking models from a server, and transforming them to be displayed on an iPhone or iPad. This sounds like a job for some declarative architecture. 🤔 If you ask 3 programmers how to define MVVM, expect to get 7 different responses. — ✨ Joe Fabisevich™ ✨ […]

Building Better Views (Part II), Next Steps

If you haven’t checked out Part I, I recommend reading it because if you don’t, none of writing below will make sense! Three Unanswered Questions 1. What happens when the views you want to configure are more complex? My recommended approach is to construct a one-time use struct, specifically for displaying in that one place. […]

What Are the React Team Principles? — overreacted

During my time on the React team, I’ve been lucky to see how Jordan, Sebastian, Sophie and other tenured team members approach problems. In this post, I’m distilling what I learned from them into a few high-level technical principles. These principles aren’t meant to be exhaustive. This is my personal attempt to formalize observations about […]

Are high quality cosmetic ingredients a thing? #203

On today’s episode we’re going to be answering your beauty questions about  Quality of ingredients versus price of the product? The Curly Girl Method and Parabens? What it’s like to work in the cosmetics industry Do you have to wait after applying Vitamin C? Beauty Science News stories Is your old makeup is contaminated?  Here’s […]

Designing My Linux-Powered Business Card

I recently built a business card that runs Linux. This is a detailed design log, plus a few random notes, from the build. If you want to see the blinkenlights, first you should go read my other blog post detailing the finished product. Designing the computer First and foremost, I would need to choose a […]

My Business Card Runs Linux

I’m an embedded systems engineer. I spend a lot of my free time looking for things I could use in future designs, or things that tickle one of my fancies. One of those things is cheap Linux-capable computers, the cheaper the better. So I started diving into the very deep rabbit hole of obscure processors. […]

On let vs const — overreacted

My previous post included this paragraph: let vs const vs var: Usually you want let. If you want to forbid assignment to this variable, you can use const. (Some codebases and coworkers are pedantic and force you to use const when there is only one assignment.) This turned out to be very controversial, sparking conversations […]

Uniform list access with subscripts

Accessing values from an array using subscripts is a light and easy way to fetch list data. Kotlin brought uniformity in data access across regular arrays and Lists by allowing us to access data from a List using subscripts. But, what about our custom data models? Can they have subscripts if they mostly represent a […]