Upgrading from Wix Navigation v1 to Wix Navigation v2, or React Navigation v3? In the past year that we've worked on an app at our company we've used Wix React Native Navigation V1 (WN1). It has worked well enough to use it, but over time, we've
My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth: In my eyes these are 7 different levels of freedom that are most important: Location freedom:
Why I can't quit Facebook 1. My Timeline I like my timeline. It's sort of a collection of memories. Things I've done. So I want to keep my timeline online, so I and others can look back at
Geeky stuff About scaling horizontally without sharding: How many RPS are possible without sharding? Is this between-step worth it? Sharding is hard and creates much room for risks and mistakes. Therefore, it could be smart to delay this as long as possible. There could be one dedicated MySQL Server as single DB,
Geeky stuff Never let your API go down with a flexible client My app sends about 0.5 RPS to the API. Once a minute I query the serverInfo which also contains info about CPU load. If the CPU load gets higher than 80%, the
Geeky stuff Scaling my Node JS GraphQL Server Vertically to 5k RPS on a single machine Intro When you're building an MVP, it's good to be prepared for a little bit of traffic. My app Communify uses about 0.5 requests per second per user that's using the app.
Science Fiction Are VR Autonomous Segways the future, or was it just a dream? Tonight I had a dream that I was woken up abruptly from so I was able to remember it in clear detail. This dream was so revealing of how traffic could be. I
Mindset & Lifestyle development Changing reachability to increase productivity Problem: when work is boring or hard, or when potentially incoming communication is very interesting, it can be hard not to check your communication channels every few minutes. When I was searching for
Entrepreneurship Fighting housing crises and loneliness with Cheap Community Living In 2016, I came up with Community Hostels: A plan to make hostels cheaper and better than ever, using symbiosis, cost-reduction, labor-reduction and behavior-control. Now, I'm iterating over this idea with a new
Geeky stuff Scaling Horizontally 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
