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Lessons from 20 years of building UIs people actually use โ€” React, dataviz, and the browser platform.

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December 2018

Logging 1,721,410 events per day with Postgres, Rails, Heroku, and a bit of JavaScript

Tooltips ... tooltips are not so easy ๐Ÿง

Building a React dataviz with React hooks

November 2018

Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project ๐Ÿ—

Waiting for Godot with callbacks, promises, and async

Announcing D3blackbox and useD3

Easy D3 blackbox components with React hooks

October 2018

React hooks in a nut shell ๐Ÿฅ

August 2018

Build responsive SVG layouts with react-svg-flexbox

ReactVR/react-360 is great, but maybe not quite there yet

Answering some common questions about React + D3 2018

July 2018

Creating the perfect rounded edge with D3 curves

Building a filterable log viewer with Downshift and match-sorter

Hire these interns

June 2018

Intern process part 2 โ€“ (my first) webinar, about React context

Use ref callbacks to measure React component size

Tiny React & D3 flamegraph tutorial

Build an animated pure SVG dynamic height accordion with React and D3

May 2018

Towards a WebRTC mesh network with RTCDataChannel

Learning WebRTC peer-to-peer communication, part 2 โ€“ connecting 2 browsers on different devices

Learning WebRTC peer-to-peer communication, part 1

April 2018

Declarative D3 charts with React 16.3

Using YouTube as a data source in Gatsbyjs

Declarative D3 transitions with React 16.3

Livecoding recap: Blockchain-redux now shares blocks between clients in real-time

Blockchain-redux becomes useful, part 1

March 2018

Livecoding Recap: A new more versatile React pattern

How our engineering team got 12x faster using these 5 lessons about integrating 3rd-party services

Build a Chrome extension from idea to launch in an afternoon

Silky smooth Piechart transitions with React and D3.js