John Isaac

All of you need to focus on your work instead of shaming other people and their work unless your work is to blame, shame and annoy other people. There can be more than one right way to build web applications. Whole notion that Rails is the best way to build apps or Full stack JavaScript…

When you try to create a custom expo dev client, I was seeing an error about hermes. iOS Release build from XCode fails at “[CP-User] [Hermes] Replace Hermes for the right configuration, if needed” I found this link on the GitHub issues where it was mentioned that I should remove .xcode.env.local. This file had only…

We bought a portal TV couple of years ago but we weren’t using it because since we connected the portal to TV we could see others on a big screen but on the other end, we were looking too small as they were taking the call on a small phone, so we ended up not…

I have been a rails developer for many years now but I had never really deployed an app myself. Usually I choose Heroku or something like that. One time I tried Docker and felt it is just too complicated. I just did not feel confident to use it to deploy. Maybe I was wrong and…

What exactly people do when you are 37? Is it alright to climb? Is it alright to run a marathon? Is it alright to learn a new language knowing you will probably never speak it out loud?

NetNewsWire is an incredible app that looks and behaves in exactly the way I expect it to behave. Thanks @brentsimmons and other contributors

twitter.com/robzolkos/status/1374105226714738688 Good to know!

I learned a couple of cool tricks in CSS today. :empty When an element does not contain any child or just empty text, I wanted to hide this element entirely. For example, an alert message that only gets displayed sometimes. I was used conditional statements before to show and hide these elements. It turns out,…

Is it just me or the record video shortcut on the iOS control center is incorrectly labeled. This has happened at least a few times and often at a very wrong time. My toddler often does cute things and many times whenever I tried to take a video of her, I use this shortcut and…