DesignLearning
Practicing Tech Design with React, Storybook, and Nivo
I spent the weekend making a technical design and implementing it to challenge myself and evaluate a few different unfamiliar libraries.
Software Engineer
Reinforced Learning
Tips and tricks we've picked up along the way.
WellnessWell-being
Developer Wellness
Wellness or well-being is the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy. This state of well-being can exist in one's life as a whole, as well as in each arena of a person's life, eg. they have a state of well-being in their social life, their home life, their emotional life, and their work life as say, a software developer.
Software Engineer
Legacy CodeLearning
Legacies Never Die: How to Handle Legacy Code
A technical and philosophical approach.
Software Engineer
PhilosophyNovelty
Gracefully Handling Newness: Tips for Software Developers
As a software engineer, I find my self torn between two seemingly opposite goals: becoming a master of the skills that I already have and also constantly trying to learn new things. And I'm definitely not alone.
Software Engineer
HackathonLearning
Quarterly Hackathon 2: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Another quarter, another chance for the staff at Olio Apps to try their hand at hacking together a project over an 8 hour work day in a friendly competition.
Software Engineer
Rapid PrototypingReact Native
Rapid Prototyping Native Mobile iOS and Android Apps in 5 minutes with React Native and Expo
When you have a new idea for an app, you want to get feedback from users as quickly as possible to see if the idea has legs, and start refining it. The best feedback comes once people try it.
CEO
Reduce Redux Boilerplate with Sitka
Sitkamodule
Reduce Redux Boilerplate with Sitka
Sitka is a small but powerful framework for state management. It organizes your application into modules, each managing a logical area of state. It builds on top of Redux and Redux Saga, giving you all the benefits of those tools without the boilerplate.
Software Engineers
The Olio Apps Inaugural Hackathon
HackathonLearning
The Olio Apps Inaugural Hackathon
Recently, Olio Apps took a little break from our regularly scheduled programming (😜) to do some hacking. We broke off into teams two, designed and built projects over the course of a pizza-fueled "work" day.
Software Engineer
A-Frame TypeScript Toolkit: Creating WebVR with TypeScript
Immersive RealityVR
A-Frame TypeScript Toolkit: Creating WebVR with TypeScript
We love TypeScript. I’ll get into the reasons why later. And we love virtual reality. Being able to create WebVR experiences has been a focus at Olio Apps this year. This lead us to create a set of tools to help developers to make A-Frame experiences using TypeScript.
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