Entrepreneurship The advantages of open sourcing At LECKR, I'm developing open source components for the apps I'm building. Instead of making everything specific to the apps I'm working on, we look ahead and see that some of the things can be used universally across multiple apps (Let's call this process
Geeky stuff How to use CloudFlare with Ghost with automatic SSL Previously I had setup my node server with ghost using let’s encrypt. However, when using CloudFlare, this isn’t needed anymore. I wanted to use CloudFlare so I could get ghost on the subdomain and a surge.sh React website on the main
Mindset & Lifestyle development Effective Communication A human mind contains a model of reality that helps you to function in the world by understanding it and how to interact with it. Spoken language is a protocol of information exchange that helps us to change this model. Lots of people don’
Geeky stuff The Expo Edge - why you should choose Expo over bare React Native I recommend Expo, because it gives you an edge compared to other ways to create apps. The expo edge 😎 You should really try it! Certainly if you're new to the
Science Fiction The dark side of globalization Decentralized internet (different content in different countries) is good. We are doing a global experiment on ourselves and don’t know the long term effects. E.g.: allow porn? Allow games? User retention? Instant connectionism to the world from your pocket? Social media? Is
Geeky stuff Wet code and inline styles Maybe I’m a bad coder… but I feel like there are a few principles of coding - that good coders use a lot – are weird. The most important is
Geeky stuff Publishing your expo app to both app stores Publishing your expo app to both app stores can be an exhausting and scary process with many unknowns if you do it for the first time. To make it a
Science Fiction How to create a sustainable world? The earth has existed for a couple billion years. That’s a couple thousand million years. That’s about 2.250.000 times longer than the 2018 years we’ve
Science Fiction The importance of rooms lies in hyperpolar immersion In a house, there are different rooms: living room, bedroom, kitchen, study room, etc. This makes sure you are able to change your environment based on what you want to
Mindset & Lifestyle development It's Nyepi in Bali. Time to reflect It's Saturday, the 17th of March 2018, and I woke up at 5:45 without alarm. It's crazy what a routine can do to your body. In the last weeks,
Geeky stuff React Native App Structure: Fat-, pure-, wrapper- or screen-components? Today (13th of March, 2018) I felt like I needed some more structure in my codebase. I've already been naming the files based on their type (screen or component), but
Geeky stuff My 7 key ways to keep my Code Quality Ultra High Seperation of concerns. I don't agree with seperating style and data from the components too much if it's not reusable/redundant, because it will make single features more sparsely spread
Entrepreneurship The rise of the Solo Dev Startup — 7 Reasons why writing useful apps on your own becomes moore easy If a company wants to make an app, they usually hire a UI/UX designer, a backend developer, and some front-end developers. Most of the times, they need 3 people
Entrepreneurship The most complex app I ever made, made it to both app stores! Last week I 'finished' MasterCrimeZ. Wel... It's not finished yet, because this is never gonna be finished. It's a with many options, but there's always room for more! Around December,
Entrepreneurship Meet iProud: The productivity app for entrepreneurs! In November 2017 I created the first version of this app: iProud. See the website for more info iProud is the ultimate To-Do app for entrepreneurs. Make & share to-do
Entrepreneurship Collaborations in the coworking space often rely on coincidence It's Tuesday afternoon in Canggu Bali and I'm in the biggest coworking space in town: Dojo Bali. I've never been in a coworking space with such a great community: So
Science Fiction Why I went to Bali and why I don’t know where I’m going next I just arrived in Bali and I already got this question at least 5 times: How long are you staying here? Where are you going next? My answer is I
Geeky stuff How to connect your app to a server? This article is part of a series on building an MVP of a Data-driven cross-platform app with the following stack: React Native, Apollo GraphQL, and on the backend Node JS with Express and a MySQL Database. The server can be accessed locally over localhost,
Science Fiction Is Skynet already there? My prediction of the collapse of internet as we know it I am going to predict something that has been predicted before by a science-fiction movie in the 80s: It's called Skynet and the idea became popular by the movie Terminator
Entrepreneurship My solution to revert global warming is creating a status-symbol of your CO2 footprint: A simple MVP idea Every World Citizen has the duty to take care of the planet. We're all destroying the planet together, so don't just point to everybody or wait for the right situation.
Geeky stuff The MVP Challenge - From 0 to MVP in 100 days: Using Expo I want to make a software product, so back in May 2017, I decided I was gonna make a React Native App. Here are all the things I learned and, roughly, the workflows I use to make an app quickly. NB that it's barely
Geeky stuff Should you go web or native? When you're creating a software product with a certain goal, and you're just starting out, you will probably have a hard time making a decision. This is what happened to me. For months and months, I just learned a lot about everything. And in
Geeky stuff Workflow query creation (React Apollo) This article is part of a series on building an MVP of a Data-driven cross-platform app with the following stack: React Native, Apollo GraphQL, and on the backend Node JS with Express and a MySQL Database. This is the workflow I use whenever I
Geeky stuff Shortcuts Cheatsheet This article is part of a series on building an MVP of a Data-driven cross-platform app with the following stack: React Native, Apollo GraphQL, and on the backend Node JS with Express and a MySQL Database. These are all shortcuts I use In VSCode
Geeky stuff Must have Tooling & Programs This article is part of a series on building an MVP of a Data-driven cross-platform app with the following stack: React Native, Apollo GraphQL, and on the backend Node JS with Express and a MySQL Database. These are the programs I use for developing
