Scaling to one million RPS This Forbes Article and its Original Post describe how a guy managed to hit 1Million RPS for a while with one load balancer and 10$. This post also contains a gist to reproduce
Geeky stuff Perfections VS Speed in Data-driven React Native Apps In the past 2 years of working with react native, I've worked with 3 Expo apps and one Native App. I've learned a very valuable lesson regarding the difference between those two. To
Today I open-sourced nearly 10% of my codebase I tried to be more open source the past few weeks. My main codebase is still private, but I've open sourced a few things: React Native Super Image React Native Super Actionsheet -
Science Fiction The new hackers will impersonate the ones you love Hacking is getting easier. Developments in AI provided tools for face and voice replication like never before. Many tools we use nowadays don't have a strong verification to certify it's really you that's
Entrepreneurship Chat-BaaS: Chat Backend as a Service Chats are very universal. With Communify, I'm solving a problem that many software companies have solved, are solving, and will solve. I am solving it for React-Native + Node JS + GraphQL + MySQL, on Linux.
Geeky stuff Big reason to use React navigation over Wix navigation Today I discovered a really big reason why React navigation is fundamentally better than Wix navigation. React navigation has functions createBottomTabNavigator/createStackNavigator, etc. which return a component. However, Wix navigation just has registerComponent,
Science Fiction The AI Boom is Near... Soon the AI Boom will change things in a drastic way. Google, Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp.... are all... listening. reading. maybe even watching... everything you do. every step you take. Every result you get.
In search for the perfect Communication App for Co-Working spaces: Slack, Facebook groups, and beyond After my 6 months’ journey through south-east Asia and Nepal, one thing stuck with me: communication is everything. And communication is not always optimal. In the backpackers scene, you get most of your
Entrepreneurship Pivoting to a creation-centric metric of productivity My measure of my own productivity has changed several times in the past years. The last few weeks I have been spending a lot of time learning passively, and it bugged me that
The dark side of globalization Decentralized internet (different content in different countries) is good. We are doing a global experiment on ourselves and don’t know the long term effects. E.g.: allow porn? Allow games? User retention?
Geeky stuff Wet code and inline styles Maybe I’m a bad coder… but I feel like there are a few principles of coding - that good coders use a lot – are weird. The most important is not to create
Geeky stuff Publishing your expo app to both app stores Publishing your expo app to both app stores can be an exhausting and scary process with many unknowns if you do it for the first time. To make it a little bit easier,
Science Fiction How to create a sustainable world? The earth has existed for a couple billion years. That’s a couple thousand million years. That’s about 2.250.000 times longer than the 2018 years we’ve counted until now.
Science Fiction The importance of rooms lies in hyperpolar immersion In a house, there are different rooms: living room, bedroom, kitchen, study room, etc. This makes sure you are able to change your environment based on what you want to do. The environment
Mindset & Lifestyle development It's Nyepi in Bali. Time to reflect It's Saturday, the 17th of March 2018, and I woke up at 5:45 without alarm. It's crazy what a routine can do to your body. In the last weeks, I woke up
Geeky stuff React Native App Structure: Fat-, pure-, wrapper- or screen-components? Today (13th of March, 2018) I felt like I needed some more structure in my codebase. I've already been naming the files based on their type (screen or component), but this is not
Geeky stuff My 7 key ways to keep my Code Quality Ultra High Seperation of concerns. I don't agree with seperating style and data from the components too much if it's not reusable/redundant, because it will make single features more sparsely spread across the codebase.
Entrepreneurship The rise of the Solo Dev Startup — 7 Reasons why writing useful apps on your own becomes moore easy If a company wants to make an app, they usually hire a UI/UX designer, a backend developer, and some front-end developers. Most of the times, they need 3 people for front-end: one
Entrepreneurship The most complex app I ever made, made it to both app stores! Last week I 'finished' MasterCrimeZ. Wel... It's not finished yet, because this is never gonna be finished. It's a with many options, but there's always room for more! Around December, I let old
Entrepreneurship Meet iProud: The productivity app for entrepreneurs! In November 2017 I created the first version of this app: iProud. See the website for more info iProud is the ultimate To-Do app for entrepreneurs. Make & share to-do lists, get shit
Entrepreneurship Collaborations in the coworking space often rely on coincidence It's Tuesday afternoon in Canggu Bali and I'm in the biggest coworking space in town: Dojo Bali. I've never been in a coworking space with such a great community: So many nice people,
Science Fiction Why I went to Bali and why I don’t know where I’m going next I just arrived in Bali and I already got this question at least 5 times: How long are you staying here? Where are you going next? My answer is I don’t know.
Geeky stuff How to connect your app to a server? This article is part of a series on building an MVP of a Data-driven cross-platform app with the following stack: React Native, Apollo GraphQL, and on the backend Node JS with Express and
Science Fiction Is Skynet already there? My prediction of the collapse of internet as we know it I am going to predict something that has been predicted before by a science-fiction movie in the 80s: It's called Skynet and the idea became popular by the movie Terminator in 1984. This
