The beeps that boop. Posts about coding, the process, and the results.
(4 min read) Building a serverless-friendly queue system continues to be an adventure. Recently, we had to say goodbye to our Redis queues and replace them with something more durable. The journey there involved a lot about time storage, visibility windows, and how the most popular queue solutions solve these problem. So, if
(6 min read) There's nothing more frustrating that your node.js app leaking memory. If you're coming here because of Heroku R14 / R15 errors, take some deep breaths, it'll be okay. Heroku's smart enough to swap to disk when this happens, and will kill and
(4 min read) GitHub's rich GraphQL API gives you a built-in headless CMS
(6 min read) There’s a lot of great React Native modules out there, but most of them require a custom iOS or Android build, leaving “ejecting” as the only option for Expo users. That changed in SDK >42, when Expo added the ability for Expo Application Services to create custom development builds of your app.
(4 min read) Windows, meet Expo in Linux; it's about time someone wrote up everything you need to do if you're a Windows developer looking to run Expo. Chances are, you've also got WSL2 running. Here's how it all comes together.