Notes from the trenches

Writing about React, Node.js, testing, performance and the craft of building software that lasts.

10 October 2026 · 10 min read

The stack, the guardrails and the blog features behind 0x1ad2.dev, with live three.js demos you can pause, restart and read.

28 April 2020 · 5 min read

A step-by-step guide to scaffolding a Next.js app with Yarn, styled-components and dotenv, and rendering your first page.

30 September 2019 · 2 min read

Key learnings from React Live in Amsterdam: Theme UI, SVGR, Framer Motion, Ignite, MobX State Tree and Next.js 9.

28 July 2019 · 3 min read

Automate setting up a new machine with a small Node.js CLI that uses Enquirer and Homebrew to install the apps you always need.

20 May 2018 · 5 min read

Highlights from React Europe 2018: the Context API, new lifecycle methods, Suspense, Apollo, Replicated Redux, CodeSandbox and Lona.

22 November 2017 · 2 min read

Notes from GDG DevFest 2017 in Amsterdam: Google's machine learning APIs, an early look at Flutter and real-time data lessons from BUX.

31 October 2017 · 2 min read

What Google showed at the Firebase Dev Summit 2017 in Amsterdam, from Crashlytics and Predictions to Cloud Firestore.

20 September 2017 · 2 min read

Route a phone's traffic through SquidMan on your Mac so cookies, headers and hosts-file entries keep working when you test on real devices.

17 July 2017 · 6 min read

A list of Visual Studio Code extensions I can't live without, from Prettier and Quokka to GitLens and Import Cost.

22 March 2017 · 4 min read

How I built an Ionic 2 Progressive Web App that scores 99 in Google Lighthouse, from enabling the service worker to Firebase Hosting.

19 August 2016 · 2 min read

Improved endpoint security using FE2EE: an idea for requiring a fingerprint scan before you can read end-to-end encrypted messages.