Building apps is too hard. Even skilled programmers who don’t specialize in app development struggle to build simple interactive tools. We think that a lot of what makes app development hard is managing state: reacting and propagating changes as the user takes actions. We’re exploring a new way to manage data in apps by storing all app state—including the state of the UI—in a single reactive datab

Honestly, I'd never thought I'd be writing about this, but the matter of patching globals turned out to be one of those topics that a lot of engineers seem to misunderstand. Most of us don't do monkey-patching, and even fewer stay around those implementations long enough to witness their impact. All the more reason to talk about it. Throughout the next few thousand words, I will be referring to mo

Explaining how quaternions, a four-dimensional number system, describe 3d rotation.

We are excited to announce support of submenus in the latest release of React Spectrum and React Aria! In the process of adding this feature, we found ourselves solving some unique challenges while working to make submenus user-friendly and accessible across an array of devices and input types. In doing so, we wanted to share our thought process in solving one of the challenges we faced along the

Update AWS started investigating the issue: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1785386554372042890 Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning? A few weeks ago, I began working on a PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there fo

An open file format for infinite canvas data. Infinite canvas tools are a way to view and organize information spatially, like a digital whiteboard. Infinite canvases encourage freedom and exploration, and have become a popular interface pattern across many apps. The JSON Canvas format was created to provide longevity, readability, interoperability, and extensibility to data created with infinite

A generation of pioneers (Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, and many more) saw the computer as tool to augment human problem-solving by giving people power over information. Today, that information mostly remains siloed across tools. Take cloud-based document editors, where pages are their smallest atomic unit. Information is locked inside of pages and files and folders — that’s reminiscent of

I want to create a file with content using Google Drive API v3. I have authenticated via OAuth and have the Drive API loaded. Statements like the following work (but produce a file without content): gapi.client.drive.files.create({ "name": "settings", }).execute(); Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to create a file that has a content. I cannot find a JavaScript example using Drive API v3. Are

前回のエントリ↓のつづき。 blog.a-know.me Pixelaを作り、運用するにあたって、「今までやったことなかったけど、今回は絶対にやってみよう」と思っていたことがあって、それが「利用規約の整備」と「GDPRにちゃんと向き合うこと」だった。 なお、以下の文章は「ごく最近に "利用規約" というものに向き合い始めたばかりのド素人」が書いているものであり、その正確さ等については一切保証できません。が、「今回僕はこうやった」ということについて書いてあるため、もし誤解や不足、問題点などがあればぜひご指摘いただきたいです。プログラミングといっしょで、問題点をひとつずつ直していくことを通じて "安心して使ってもらえる・運用していけるWebサービス作り" を上達していきたい、という気持ちがあります。 なぜ取り組もうと思ったか？ 僕はとにかく意識が低くて、GDPRが施行されるという今年の5月下旬