Debugging

(1 min read) I am always on the search for a Postman replacement. Not because I hate Postman, but because 99% of API problems are solved by just giving cURL / fetch() a nice UI. So there's HTTPie, and it's great.

(6 min read) We use AWS pretty heavily at Taskless, with their compute-on-demand making it easy for us to scale our bi-directional API Gateway from zero to thousands of concurrent requests with no additional effort. It's truly wonderful; that is, until it's time to write tests.

(3 min read) With the release of Expo 48, expo-community-flipper (gh) (npm) can finally declare its purpose fulfilled. A year ago, I was trying to debug redux inside of the Chrome Debugger and nearly lost my mind. It wasn't just a bad experience. It was an awful experience, defined

(6 min read) There's nothing more frustrating that your node.js app leaking memory. If you're coming here because of Heroku R14 / R15 errors, take some deep breaths, it'll be okay. Heroku's smart enough to swap to disk when this happens, and will kill and

(6 min read) There’s a lot of great React Native modules out there, but most of them require a custom iOS or Android build, leaving “ejecting” as the only option for Expo users. That changed in SDK >42, when Expo added the ability for Expo Application Services to create custom development builds of your app.