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hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native Android Part 5 - Custom Android Keyboard Extension

Learn to use Bridge components to build a custom keyboard extension with Hotwire Native Android

· 16 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native Android Part 4 - Bridge Components

How to build bridge components with Hotwire Native Android

· 19 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native Android Part 3 - Native Screens

How to add native screens with Hotwire Native Android

· 10 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native Android Part 2 - Path Configuration

Learn to configure path configuration with Hotwire Android

· 4 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Android Part 1 - Setup

Learn how to get started with Hotwire Native

· 7 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native iOS 4 - Custom iOS Keyboard

Learn to use Bridge components to build a custom keyboard extension with Hotwire Native iOS

· 24 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native iOS 3 - Bridge Components

Learn to use Bridge components with Hotwire Native iOS

· 11 min read

hotwire-native

Up and Running with Hotwire Native iOS 2 - Native Screen

Learn to navigate to a native screen with Hotwire iOS

· 8 min read

hotwire-native

Hotwire Native iOS Part 1

Up and Running with Hotwire Native iOS 1- Setup

· 8 min read

life

Work is for life; Life is not for work

Lessons learned from sleeping on a toilet

· 7 min read

apple

Steve Jobs Introduces the PWA:Progressive Web App

Steve Jobs used to quite like the idea of web apps but something about money...

· 1 min read

life

Dig

Just dig

· 1 min read

ios

Turbo Native iOS Offline Mode using SQLITE - Part 1

Bring some offline functionality to your turbo-ios app

· 35 min read

ios

Bringing Your Turbo Native iOS App Offline

Thoughts on bringing Turbo native offline

· 4 min read

life

2023 Recap

To a new year

· 8 min read

android,turbo

Video: Up and Running with Turbo Android

Video about getting set up with Turbo Android

· 0 min read

android,turbo

Video: Up and Running with Turbo Android - Part 2

Video about getting set up with Turbo Android and modals as well as some debugging

· 0 min read

turbo

Tidy Up Your Views with Request Variants

The easiest way to tidy up your views

· 4 min read

turbo

Turbo Native - Native Authentication Part 3 - Android Client

In this third part, we are building a turbo native app to use native authentication for Android

· 8 min read

hotwire

Conquering iOS, Android and Web with Hotwire

A talk I gave to Ruby Ireland about Hotwire

· 0 min read

turbo

Turbo Native Authentication Part 2 - IOS Client

In this second part, we are building a turbo native app to use native authentication

· 34 min read

turbo

Turbo Native Authentication Part 1 - Rails Backend

In this Turbo Native series, we’re going to build native auth. Part 1 will cover the server side. Part 2 will cover Turbo iOS, and then we’ll end with Android.

· 9 min read

business

Announcing the Developer of One Newsletter

A thinly disguised sales pitch for my newsletter

· 2 min read

android

3 Useful Tricks When Working With Turbo Android

Some tips when writing Turbo Android applications

· 3 min read

business

How to Get Up and Running With Turbo Android Turbo Android Part 3 - How to Access Native Android Features with the JavaScript Bridge

How to access the Javascript native bridge

· 9 min read

android

How to Get up and Running with Turbo Android Part 2 - Feel More Native

How to add a native screen and modal screen to Turbo Android

· 6 min read

android

How to Get Up and Running With Turbo Android Part 1

How to get started with Turbo Android

· 8 min read

culture

These men made me quit TikTok

Thoughts on young men on TikTok and their bad advice

· 3 min read

ios

Turbo Native - How to Access Native iOS features with the JavaScript bridge

Turbo Native offers the best of both worlds. You will often hear it described by Basecamp as allowing you to build high-fidelity cross-platform apps. What exactly does this mean?

· 22 min read

ios

How to Render a Native Home Screen with Turbo-iOS

How to use TabBarController with the Coordinator pattern to render native and server side views from your rails app

· 23 min read

books

Recently Read 3

Recently I read Crime and Punishment, Expecting Better by Emily Oster and The Irrational Ape by David Grimes

· 7 min read

development

Being a Full-Stack Developer is no longer a dirty word

The air is changing

· 7 min read

javascript

In Defence of the Single Page Application

My argument for why we need the Single Page Applications(sarcasm inside)

· 0 min read

bridgetown

How to upgrade your Bridgetown site

Upgrading you're Bridgetown site is easy but I did run into a JS error

· 7 min read

business

What does scale mean anyway?

Scale means more than better code

· 4 min read

books

Recently Read #2 - Ireland's dark past, an entrepreneur who pioneered wind energy and how browsers work

High-Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Dangerous Visionary by Eddie O'Connor and Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan

· 14 min read

refactoring

Good Citizen Refactoring

How to refactor without compromising your job

· 4 min read

books

Recently Read #1

Read for my brief thoughts on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, How to Avoid Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman and Deep Sea Diving and Foreign Going by Rose George

· 14 min read

business

Don't Let Developers Become The Bottleneck: Use Editmode

My Editmode review and why I believe it could be a good fit for teams

· 5 min read

rails

How to Setup Storybook with Rails View Components in under 10 Minutes

Component driven design is one of the best things to come out of the ReactJS framework, and Storybook is an excellent way for a team to collaborate on new features while also conforming to a team style guide.

· 6 min read

project-management

Thoughts on Sprints

A few retrospective thoughts on the Sprint development cycle

· 6 min read

ios

Building Cross-Platform Apps has Gotten Easier. Jumpstart is One Reason Why

Jumpstart iOS review. Some small thoughts on the impact it could have on your next app and beyond.

· 7 min read

rails

Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 2-(controllers and workers)

Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 2 (controllers and workers)

· 21 min read

rails

Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 1-(models and tests)

Rails Tutorial: How to Build a Subscription Form that Integrates with Mailchimp Part 1 (models and tests)

· 15 min read

rails

Rails TIP: Use dom_id to Generate Ids in HTML

How to use dom_id in Rails to tidy up your views.

· 2 min read

rails

How to Configure your Mac M1 for Ruby on Rails development?

This post describes how to configure your Apple Silicon Mac M1 to run Rails and all it's dependencies.

· 3 min read

calmness

Internet Fasting - A Better Way to Achieve Calm

How a day without internet lead to a happier me

· 2 min read

javascript

The Rebellion Against JavaScript SPA's has begun

Thoughts and tribulations on the next stage of the web.

· 5 min read

charity

Help Me To End Child Marriage Through Education

For my birthday, I am donating money to charities focused on ending child marriage at the links down below. Please help me by either donating or sharing on social media. If you want to understand my motivation, read away but if you instead want to take action, scroll down to the bottom.

· 10 min read

updates

Will Your Idea Get Stolen? Blunt Advice About NDAs

People worry about having their ideas stolen. I've signed more NDA's than I care to remember. Potential clients come to me with an idea for an app or website and then refuse to tell me anything unless I sign a piece of paper.

· 3 min read

updates

Do you need someone to build you an app or website? Here's some advice:

Asking a Software Developer or a designer how long something is going to take is a hard question. Time spent on actually writing the code is not how long someone has spent thinking about it, starting it, restarting it or even procrastinating on it (and procrastination can be an important part of the building process).

· 2 min read

updates

Why building a software company is hard

One of the hardest things you can do is start a software company with a tech-illiterate co-founder. Watch them use the software you built, and realize with horror that building software is...hard

· 4 min read
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