Month: July 2018

React Native is getting a lot of bad publicity lately.

React Native is getting a lot of bad publicity lately. Not coincidentally it’s undergoing a complete rewrite. Its Android support is famously outmoded and terrible. A lot of companies got burned using it.

This is an opportunity for Flutter which is written in Google’s Dart language and from what I can tell it’s really nice to use. I’m also partial to Nativescript which also has great promise.

https://medium.com/reflectly-engineering/reflectly-from-react-native-to-flutter-2e3dffced2ea

Great to see this open source project getting some attention despite not having the backing of a giant corporation…

Great to see this open source project getting some attention despite not having the backing of a giant corporation like Facebook or Google. I’m a fan and (even more remarkably) a sponsor.

You don’t need no steenking Virtual Dom—or any framework junk actually—to do your single page application. Just use what JavaScript can already do out of the box, tagged template literals.

Originally shared by Ivan Pierre

Reactive w/o virtual DOM.

https://medium.com/easy-apps-with-hyperhtml

Via Andres Soolo

Via Andres Soolo

Electric vehicles have been touted since well before internal combustion engines were common. A fleet of electric cabs were proposed for London in the 1880s.

So what happened? Why did it take so long for electric vehicles to become a thing.

Forget conspiracy theories and “roads not taken” type historical speculation. The reasons were always technical. The main reason being energy density. Nothing comes close to petrol in terms of joules per cubic metre. Certainly not a lead-acid battery in 1912. A century later and we are only now in a place where batteries can compete.

Petroleum sucks but when looked at from the point of view of what it made possible, it was and remains a miracle substance.

Originally shared by BackintheUSA

Electric Car and Charging Station, 1912