I had a npm package that lived in node_modules, and I wanted to make some changes to the styling and functionality. Obviously just editing the code inside of the node_modules wouldn’t have worked, because it wasn’t being committed to source control. …

How Web3 opens new opportunities in software development — The bright promise of software is the ability to solve a personal problem. If no solution already exists for a challenge I’m facing, I have the superpower to create a new solution myself. We’re accustomed to thinking about software development as something that only big companies do: Microsoft! Facebook! But…

Originally on Mirror and In Twitter Threads A new renaissance of creative potential is brewing — I see the potential of Web3 to empower a new, community-driven approach to product development. It introduces new tools and business models that will fundamentally change the way that products are built. …

Web3 interest is exploding, there’s a mobile revolution waiting to happen. — Web3 is the term for applications built on blockchain technology, from NFTs to decentralized finance and more. After buying my first NFT and messing around with Ethereum, I thought it was time to explore building mobile apps in this new flourishing ecosystem. I wanted to write a simple app to…

With these magic tricks you can build a world-class iOS App — When users open your app, they immediately expect infinite scrolling and content to be immediately available. The bar is set high by existing feed products like Instagram and TikTok, which manage to barely show any loading indication. However, the technical challenges are immense, even with modern hardware and the latest…

Users don’t update their apps, so you have to have to be ready from the first line of code. Backwards compatibility is one of the trickiest things to do correctly in app development. It requires you to think far into the future and think about all the possible feature development…

Improve the speed of your development team — It’s probably fair to say that no software engineering team ever has the right amount of documentation on the code they write. Documentation here I’m defining as the write-up that is done after a project ships to explain how the technical systems work. But over the years, I’ve come to…

How to be a better Swift Developer in 1-rule — All iOS developers have written (or come across) the thousand line view controller. It’s hard to reason about, hard to add new features, and bug-prone. It’s clear that it is trying to do too much — but how to stop this mess before it happens? The one rule: Don’t write…

Mapbox current location in Swift for iOS apps — In my first steps in using MapBox in Swift, I followed the official tutorial to get started displaying a map for my iOS app. However, the tutorial ends with a hardcoded center coordinate, and I wanted to center the map on the users current location. …