Seeking the Uncomfortable: First-Time Podcast Appearance
When Tammy Bryant Butow asked me if I wanted to be a guest on the Break Things on Purpose podcast, I was taken aback. Nervous. Uncomfortable. So I sai ...
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The Latest from Formidable ✒️
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The Definitive Guide: What to Expect When Moving from React Web to React Native
If you're a React Web engineer looking to build native mobile applications, React Native is a great choice. But it IS a little different. Here's where ...
Not All Components Are Created Equal
Here are several key ideas that hopefully help you gain new tools to identify why a set of components in your app may not be as readable as they could ...
Front-End Development for Screen Readers: A Five-Second Jumpstart (macOS)
Accessibility can be a daunting field to dive into. Following best practices and using automated tools will get you a long way, but stepping into the ...
What is Prisma and Why Do We Need Another ORM?
Prisma is a next-generation object–relational mapper (ORM) that claims to help developers build faster and make fewer errors. But how does it work?
Why Choose React Native?
React Native unifies development teams by leveraging the same set of technologies on multiple platforms. Here are some of the key reasons why you migh ...
Animations in React Native: Performance and Reason-about-ability with Reanimated 2
In this article, I'm going to discuss one of the aforementioned challenges of mobile app development with RN—building \*smooth\* animations and gestur ...
The Case for Consistent Documentation
Words can't begin to express the anxiety I felt leaving my first job last spring. As I put in my notice, a question kept nagging me: how could I wrap ...
Why have design technologists?
A Design Technologist can move between the design and engineering worlds seamlessly. They can change their shape and blend in depending on the environ ...
Chats About urql: With Max Stoiber
A chat with Max Stoiber, a JavaScript engineer from Vienna in Austria, who's a well known constant in the React community, co-creator of styled-compon ...
Building 3-D Web Experiences With react-three-fiber
What if you could build 3-D scenes with React? You can! react-three-fiber is a library that lets you do exactly that.
How to Remain A Successful Product Designer In Our Current Digital Hellscape
As digital product designers, digital detaching is a tough feat to accomplish. To be successful, we need a deep understanding and plenty of practice u ...
The State of Reason in 2021
The question, "Is Reason ready?" still looms large in every conversation I have about the language. In this piece, I hope to answer that question by e ...
Parker Ziegler
Stores: Making State Global Without React's Context API
In this article we're going to explore some drawbacks of context-based state in typical application architecture, then explore an alternative construc ...
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