Geeky stuff Application Loader gone in XCode 11? This is how you upload your app now In XCode 11.1, application loader is nowhere to be found. Apple has removed it, seemingly for no apparent reason.This is how you can still upload your app: Install Transporter
How to set up mailchimp MailChimpSetupGoing to the right URLTo make sure people end up on yourwebsite.com/emailsuccess, please do this:In MailChimp,1. audience2. Manage audience3. signup forms4. form builder5. forms and response emails ->
Booki The Human Network Explosion In the past 2 centuries, urbanisation, distance communication (telegram, calling, television, internet, flat communication) and accessible commuting speed has caused our networks to expand. As a result, we are digesting many more connections
Booki #to{anything} Lately, I've been working on my workflow a lot and gained a lot of consciousness on my screen habits. Then, I made some rules to make me even more conscious and less impulsive.
LECKR How I'm going to try to become 10x as productive within a month A few simple new rules are going to make me much more productive. Chrome max 3 tabs No other browsers allowed Freedom.to locked mode: No news, no communication, no notekeeping, no bank,
Geeky stuff The solution to the PO Fallacy - How to code more, and plan less As a solo devpreneur I find myself over-analyzing and planning + thinking too much. Even when working in bigger teams, I end up creating so many to-do's that I get afraid of starting because
Booki Screentime update, April 2019 In the beginning of this year, I've been online a lot. My average of january 2019 was a whopping 9 hours a day of screentime. All things I did required me to be
Mindset & Lifestyle development The Hammock Experiment My housemate was looking funny at me when I told him I slept in a hammock last night. In the past 6 days, I've been sleeping in a hammock now. And I'm not
Mindset & Lifestyle development Daylight is good for me Daylight is good for me. In Scandinavia (but also in the Netherlands), a lot of people are depressed because they don't get enough daylight. Still though, people in the Netherlands end up working
Science Fiction Deep Dream Devs I find myself dreaming that I'm programming My brain is training and improving its neural network I think predictive programming CNN (PPCNN) could be the future of programming. PPCDN could map a textual
Entrepreneurship Lean Life A nice song to play while I'm braggin' I'm getting more and more confidence in my own startup ideas. I'm learning quickly and applying new things fast. I'm quite confident that I can
Booki About Single Tasking and Screen/Window Setup on your Mac and Phones Multitasking is bad for focus and productivity Single Tasking seems to be the way to go It is often said that having multiple screens is good for productivity. However, I think having multiple
Entrepreneurship How to convince your next freelance project that you can work parttime Companies are often worried you can't focus and oversee a project if you don't work enough hours a week for them I like to work at 2 or 3 projects at the same
Entrepreneurship Qualitative versus Quantitative Scaling in your startup One of the startups I work for went live in November 2018. Our USP is creating an universal way of canceling and switching of all your subscriptions in one app, with minimal effort.
Dunbar1 What would a social network that's actually good for humanity look like? In this small post, I compared the current biggest social network (Facebook) with what I would think the perfect social network should look like. There are many big differences.
Entrepreneurship Why I think working at two startups is better than one One Startup Two Startups Focus Applying things in both. Learning a valuable lesson in one startup can help you prevent mistakes in the other. Commitment Enforced Commitment Still Possible The one thing (book)
Geeky stuff Redux Light and Universal endpoints This blogpost is still being written and isn't finished, but I already put it here for you to read. Redux adds a lot of layers and boilerplate, which increases time-to-context. Here are the
Geeky stuff What is the best way to test new features in your React Native App? In the past 2 years, I've worked on 9 React Native apps, and I've tried many different ways to test new features. All possibilities have advantages and drawbacks, so here they are. Dev
Geeky stuff I just made an app in 26 hours In the beginning of March 2019, I started with Dunbar. This post describes how it went.
Geeky stuff How got get your app under control? Remove wildgrow, KISS, monolithize A lot of startups run out of money and can't take off because they have a very clumsy/heavy codebase that's hard to change/maintain. In early stage startups, it is very easy
Geeky stuff Migrating to Expo to become more lean and stable It can very well be the case that when you started your react native project a few years ago, Expo didn't exist or wasn't matured yet. However, now Expo is the prefered choice
Geeky stuff Forcing your app users to update the app Things to add: - Why - How - Code repo open source Create backend endpoint ‘version_info’ which exposes ‘newest version’ & ‘required version’, and maybe ‘newest native version’ or so Add this
Geeky stuff Seven mistakes I think my software company made building their React Native App For about 8 months now, I've worked for a software-company that's building a React Native App for a client. My role is to program features and fix bugs in React Native. After a
Entrepreneurship Human Directions: A startup idea There should be a Maps app that helps you remember What you already Discovered in a City. Locations you’ve been to get added to the map and streets you go through regularly
Geeky stuff Processing feedback of your users in your app: HockeyApp, Intercom, WhatsApp? Every app needs feedback from its users. It's a very important step in the lean development cycle of creating a good product. There are multiple ways Intercom WhatsApp HockeyApp Native & Custom Native
Mindset & Lifestyle development My food goals of 2019: Eat more paleo, ecological and don't go to the supermarket every day This month I made the move to the wild west: Amsterdam, to pursue my goals as an entrepreneur and start working at two startups as full stack app developer. With this move I
Geeky stuff Upgrading from Wix Navigation v1 to Wix Navigation v2, or React Navigation v3? In the past year that we've worked on an app at our company we've used Wix React Native Navigation V1 (WN1). It has worked well enough to use it, but over time, we've
Mindset & Lifestyle development My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth My 7 Levels of Freedom to minimise stress, doubt and regret and maximise possibility, happiness and growth: In my eyes these are 7 different levels of freedom that are most important: Location freedom:
Dunbar1 Why I can't quit Facebook 1. My Timeline I like my timeline. It's sort of a collection of memories. Things I've done. So I want to keep my timeline online, so I and others can look back at
Geeky stuff About scaling horizontally without sharding: How many RPS are possible without sharding? Is this between-step worth it? Sharding is hard and creates much room for risks and mistakes. Therefore, it could be smart to delay this as long as possible. There could be one dedicated MySQL Server as single DB,
Geeky stuff Never let your API go down with a flexible client My app sends about 0.5 RPS to the API. Once a minute I query the serverInfo which also contains info about CPU load. If the CPU load gets higher than 80%, the
Geeky stuff Scaling my Node JS GraphQL Server Vertically to 5k RPS on a single machine Intro When you're building an MVP, it's good to be prepared for a little bit of traffic. My app Communify uses about 0.5 requests per second per user that's using the app.
Science Fiction Are VR Autonomous Segways the future, or was it just a dream? Tonight I had a dream that I was woken up abruptly from so I was able to remember it in clear detail. This dream was so revealing of how traffic could be. I
Mindset & Lifestyle development Changing reachability to increase productivity Problem: when work is boring or hard, or when potentially incoming communication is very interesting, it can be hard not to check your communication channels every few minutes. When I was searching for
Entrepreneurship Fighting housing crises and loneliness with Cheap Community Living In 2016, I came up with Community Hostels: A plan to make hostels cheaper and better than ever, using symbiosis, cost-reduction, labor-reduction and behavior-control. Now, I'm iterating over this idea with a new
Geeky stuff Scaling Horizontally to one million RPS This Forbes Article and its Original Post describe how a guy managed to hit 1Million RPS for a while with one load balancer and 10$. This post also contains a gist to reproduce
Geeky stuff Perfections VS Speed in Data-driven React Native Apps In the past 2 years of working with react native, I've worked with 3 Expo apps and one Native App. I've learned a very valuable lesson regarding the difference between those two. To
Geeky stuff Today I open-sourced nearly 10% of my codebase I tried to be more open source the past few weeks. My main codebase is still private, but I've open sourced a few things: React Native Super Image React Native Super Actionsheet -
Science Fiction The new hackers will impersonate the ones you love Hacking is getting easier. Developments in AI provided tools for face and voice replication like never before. Many tools we use nowadays don't have a strong verification to certify it's really you that's
Entrepreneurship Chat-BaaS: Chat Backend as a Service Chats are very universal. With Communify, I'm solving a problem that many software companies have solved, are solving, and will solve. I am solving it for React-Native + Node JS + GraphQL + MySQL, on Linux.
Geeky stuff Big reason to use React navigation over Wix navigation Today I discovered a really big reason why React navigation is fundamentally better than Wix navigation. React navigation has functions createBottomTabNavigator/createStackNavigator, etc. which return a component. However, Wix navigation just has registerComponent,
Science Fiction The AI Boom is Near... Soon the AI Boom will change things in a drastic way. Google, Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp.... are all... listening. reading. maybe even watching... everything you do. every step you take. Every result you get.
Communify In search for the perfect Communication App for Co-Working spaces: Slack, Facebook groups, and beyond After my 6 months’ journey through south-east Asia and Nepal, one thing stuck with me: communication is everything. And communication is not always optimal. In the backpackers scene, you get most of your
Entrepreneurship Pivoting to a creation-centric metric of productivity My measure of my own productivity has changed several times in the past years. The last few weeks I have been spending a lot of time learning passively, and it bugged me that
Entrepreneurship Why openness from day one is so damn important for solo entrepreneurs in software Why you shouldn't keep your startup project to yourself, and why you should share the process with the world? It may sound counter-intuitive but... Feedback can make you change your mind and plans
