Creating with code
Interactive essays on creative code, mostly using my Solandra framework
React and State
One of the key challenges for React Apps is state; Valtio is an excellent modern approach.
React Native Setup in Late 2021
August 2021
React Native is a leading, cross-platform, declarative UI framework with hot reloading. If you want to make mobile apps, along with Flutter…
An Introduction to React Native Reanimated 2
August 2021
React Native Reanimated 2 is the main third party approach to animation for React Native. In version 1 a animation node graph approach was…
Valtio: A great state management solution for React
August 2021
Valtio is a fantastic and relatively new state management library for React. It is extraordinarily clear, concise and easy to use, yet…
Getting Started with Thermal Printing
June 2020
For a while I'd been interested in trying out retro thermal printing (see GameBoy Printer). You can print low quality printouts on cheap…
Getting Started with React Native in 2020
April 2020
I've been doing React Native for over 4 years. It is amazing how much it has improved, but also how much was there from the start. The React…
