Root Native: why I started it, and what UI and Inertia actually fix
The thinking behind the Root Native organisation, the specific problems Root Native UI and Inertia solve, and how they differ from what already exists.
Writing
Notes on what I build and what I learn
Notes on software, engineering and the things I build — specific problems, the reasoning behind a decision, and what I took away from it.
How I ended up a React Native developer
I saw where cross-platform mobile was going and moved towards it. Between 2020 and 2023 I shipped and refactored more apps than I can count — a dating app with no swiping, a golf app, a freight app, a P2P training simulator for first responders. Here is what that run taught me.
Helping clean up the React Native docs
In 2019 Meta opened an umbrella issue to rewrite the React Native documentation. I picked up four of the API pages. The most-used component in the framework had shipped its accessibility props without documenting them.