"๐ Blood, Sweat, and Pixels"
by Jason Schreier
26-11-2019You will not find any technical details - for me it's just good set of bedtime ๐ stories for people interested into software/game development. Well... maybe some pixel art just for relax ๐ฑโ๐?
Hidden dragons everywhere ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
The darkest place is under the candle ... how often we dream about awesome techniques and tools but fail with basic name convection ๐ฅ. Now i know why it's one of the first "Clean Code" chapter.
"๐The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind"
by Joseph Murphy
19-11-2019I expected so much (over one million copies sold worldwide ๐) and so huge disappointment ๐คฆโ. Really low meat to babble ratio and pseudoscience crap. Worst book i ever read ๐น.
React Native + Storybook = โค
developing UI components in isolation
16-11-2019When i started journey with React Native i struggled with styles ๐ - it was really annoying and time consuming to work on components that are not so quickly accesible ๐ข or could have many different states. What i found out is that Storybook that i know as great tool for Web Applications is also available for React Native! Simple tool that makes work much faster ๐
Selenium webdriver on AWS EC2
For one project i wanted to run selenium tests after each application update. I had not dedicated server or CI setup so i tried to run that on heroku using https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-google-chrome and unfortunatelly it was not stable for me - could not connect to chrome randomly ๐ฅ. I run that on AWS EC2 using Xvfb and surprisingly works awesome ๐. By the way: t2.micro instance ๐ค! Maybe it was lame and i should try to use AWS Lambda ๐ค
App design
You are software developer and your apps looks really bad ๐ฑ? Try to create mockups before first line of code - even if you don't have any sense of beauty (like me ๐) outcome will be much, much better. You don't need advance skills to do that - i believe that everyone can master bascis in few hours โ. I work with Adobe Xd - it is doing it's job and is free to download ๐.
"๐ The one thing"
by Gary Keller with Jay Papasan
12-11-2019What i found valuable in this book (at least to page where i stop reading that ๐คญ)? Reminded me that we are mortal, our willpower is limited and maybe we should focus on stuff that matters. That sounds little bit like a "lean", doesn't it ๐ค? What i'm pretty sure - if it works for software development then definitely it's good lifehack ๐
Poland Independence Day
In 1946 ENIAC, first digital computer was completed โจ. In the same year, just after World War II destroyed Poland ๐ฅ struggle with democracy standards when Three Times Yes referendum was manipulated by communist. 73 years later in rankings Software Developers from Poland have 3rd place on the World ๐๐๐. I'm proud of you guys ๐ช๐ช๐ช
Bug of a day
JS, baby - why you make my cry ๐ฅ. Because of typeof null === 'object', code like typeof something === 'object' always should be followed by something !== null or !!something. Do we have to use heavy lodash _.isObject(something) to make our code neat and concise?
Redux-presist & migrations
Seriously, no one is using redux-persist for React Native ๐ค? If yes how it's possible that documetation is silent about fact that downgrades are not supported and pull request open since May 2018 ๐ค. So more pull request has some errors. Time to create new one ...
New side project
Gruv Training
01-10-2019I'm really happy to announce that together with Arek Stachoล we start new side project - Gruv Training ๐ฅณ๐ Our plan is to help trainers conduct fitness classes ๐คธโโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ๐๏ธโ๐๏ธโ๐ช. Great opprotunity to learn little more about fitness industry and play around mobile development ๐ฑ.
Payment industry fail
Customer want to pay for a servise so you initialize payment process and you are waiting 10 days โฐ for confirmation from a Bank that transaction was succesful - 21th century! Watch out for that - almost 2 weeks was not enough to verify transaction and after few days you still can get this trasaction canceled because account has insufficient funds๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ! Sound like old Soviet Union technology ๐จ? SEPA Direct Debit fully implemented in 2014 ๐ค. Just wonder if they still using paper and pen as database ๐?
I'm in heaven
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
13-07-2019Headless CMS - we got back full control on our UI and still giving customer control on content ๐ช.
Subscription model and operations hell
I have good news for everyone who want's to build application/business that use subscription model. You don't need to waste houndrends of hours on building operations stuff like: user managment, offer configuration, subscriptions, payments, invoices, financial reports etc ๐ฑ๐คข๐คฎ. On the market exists few tools that handle all that boring & necessery tasks very well. My choose: Chargebee (great API and free for startups). Now you can focus on core of your business/application ๐ค.
NodeJs callback hell
Are you working with NodeJs? Experienced callback hell ๐ฟ? Writing promise wrappers for extrnal modules to be able use it in async/await functions๐? Respect your time and don't do that manually - util.promisify. If doesn't work for you use promisify with bind to keep this working ๐.
How to fail in Javascript
In JavaScript you can throw anything; strings, numbers, booleans, objects, even other functions. You can does not mean that you should ๐น. You have to throw Error object throw new Error("Some error message") to have access to error trace wneh you catch that ๐ฅ
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