My previous post about Zanagrams.com made it sound like I’d built it. Sorry! I didn’t build it, just enjoyed it.
Category: Debug with Me
Raw stream-of-consciousness posts to help Googlers solve the same problems that I’ve faced.
React Native Async Trouble
This is a #DebugJournal post, which means you’re reading the notes I took in real-time while debugging the issue. It won’t read like a nicely…
Installing SBT on an M1 Mac
Turns out it’s pretty simple when you do it the right way: https://stackoverflow.com/a/66464892/1037043 SDK Man is the way to go: And SBT should run without…
On Pagination and Sort Order
The Bug ???? We’ve been testing the next generation of our sync engine at Day One prior to public release, and we found a funny…
Don’t Make Me Tap Twice
I’ve started rough work on a new app for digital “morning baskets“. While I just used Expo when starting Storytime (another app I have in-progress),…
Debugging tricky parameterized types
Parameterized functions are fantastic. I’m talking about the functions that operate around some abstract piece of data, without doing anything that would require specific knowledge…
React Native Animated Text
On Cyber Monday I sprang for William Candillon’s course on animation with React Native. I love his style. And I like how beautiful his examples…
On media uploads, and annoying S3 APIs.
While working on Storytime Studio a couple of weeks ago I decided to upgrade my media uploading approach. I had started with the naive “I’ll…