Blog intro
On April 1st of all days, I hereby launch my new blog section. This will be brief articles, snippets, opinions and answers to questions. Mostly about React and closely related things, occasionally some other technologies like Node.js. Maybe at some point I'll throw in some blog about my hobbies as well.
Why write at all?
I have many reasons to want to write;
- To generate backlinks to my portfolio site and increase my Google ranking
- To have reference links to share in discussions with more info
- To get better at in-person discussions
- To think about subjects more deeply
- To collect great links to other sources
- To share my excitement about certain technologies
- To share my frustration about web patterns (and hopefully get you to avoid them)
- To become a better writer
- To get feedback on my ideas and believes
I'm not sure if it was smart to list the backlinks reason as the first item, but I want to be honest and transparent with you. I'm a freelancer. I find fun jobs more easily if my site ranks higher on Google. This is how I justify spending time on this. The other reasons would not be enough.
I'm not looking for internet fame or points.
Some other subjects
Some other subjects I want to get an article about;
- Global state management in React
- Why I believe Tailwind is not the right fit for most React projects
- Component props: primitives vs objects
- Why going to the office two days per week is important to me
- iOS edge drag navigation monitor (gestures)
- A hook that gets the viewport height, even when the iOS OSK is open
- How to prevent overscrolling in iOS?
- Libraries vs custom code
- React folder structure
Some of these are probably too big ideas to even get finished.
If you read all this, I thank you for your time. I didn't expect anyone to be this interested in this particular gist, I just wanted there to be some kind of kick-off.