Writing

Here you’ll find a list of articles I’ve written, both on this blog and around the web. If you’re looking for a quick sample of my writing style without reading my life’s work, check out The Web’s Cruft Problem or The Rise of TypeScript.

My biggest writing endeavor was a book I wrote on jQuery UI back in 2014. I wrote up an article about what the experience of writing a tech book is like, if you’re curious.

2026

Detecting Inactive Devices With Notehub Smart Fleets
Blues Developer Blog

2025

Using Blues Mojo to Measure Power Usage—A Case Study
Blues Developer Blog
Detecting Anomalous Devices With Notehub Smart Fleets
Blues Developer Blog
Using Batch Jobs to Automate Notehub Workflows
Blues Developer Blog
Configuring Your Notecard for GPS Tracking—A Beginner's Guide
Blues Developer Blog
The Shocking Viability of Vibecoding
I’ll Never Build an Ugly Demo Again
It’s Never Been Easier to Start in IoT—Because of AI

2024

AI’s Effect on Blog Revenue—My Data
Monitoring Home CO2 Levels with LoRaWAN
Hackster
Bringing Arduino Cloud to Every Device With Blues Notecard
Hackster
Implementing Geofences With Blues and Datacake
Blues Developer Blog
How to Test a Starnote Indoors
Blues Developer Blog
Get Ready for Starnote by Trying NTN Mode Today
Blues Developer Blog
Using an External GPS/GNSS Module with the Notecard
Blues Developer Blog
Writing Firmware That Works Across Cellular, Wi-Fi, and LoRa
Blues Developer Blog
Using GPS/GNSS and Wi-Fi Triangulation Together Effectively
Blues Developer Blog
Four Tips & Tricks for Becoming a Successful Firmware Developer
Blues Developer Blog

2023

The Easy Way to Build Wi-Fi Products With a Cellular Fallback
Blues Developer Blog
Establishing a Robust MLOps Workflow for TinyML
Blues Developer Blog
Cellular, Wi-Fi, LoRa — The Next Generation of Notecards
Blues Developer Blog
Get Started With Zephyr—The Easy Way
Blues Developer Blog
An Environmental Monitor You Can Update Over the Air
Hackster
Open/Close Valves and Monitor Flow Rate—Remotely!
Hackster

2022

Building an Indoor Floor-Level Tracker for Response Teams
Hackster
How to Build an Asset Tracker With Geofence-Driven Alerts
Blues Blog
How to Build Your Own Inexpensive GPS Kid Tracker
Hackster
10 Examples to Help You Learn JSONata
Blues Blog

2021

Building Your First Image Classification Machine Learning Project
Blues Blog
What’s Destroying My Yard? Pest Detection With Raspberry Pi
Hackster
How to Add Randomized Avatars to Your React App
The Ultimate Guide to Building a UI Component Library—Part 3: Building Robust Components
Telerik Blog
Should You Care About React Server Components?
dev.to
The Ultimate Guide to Building a UI Component Library—Part 2: Establishing a Development Environment
Telerik Blog
The Ultimate Guide to Building a UI Component Library—Part 1: Creating a Plan
Telerik Blog
Four Things I Learned About GraphQL From Eve Porcello
Telerik Blog

2020

What React 17 Means for Developers
Telerik Blog
Introducing React Wednesdays
Telerik Blog
Let’s Build a Financial Dashboard with React
Telerik Blog
I Watched All 27 React Europe Talks So You Don’t Have To
Telerik Blog
Can We Make Open Source More Sustainable?
Telerik Blog
How to Build Forms with React the Easy Way
Telerik Blog
9 Things I Learned Building the Same App with Angular and React
Telerik Blog
How I Won a Dancing World Championship That One Time

2019

How React Taught Me JavaScript
Telerik Blog
Using SASS in NativeScript 6.0+
My Top 5 Tech Speaking Tips
Why ‘Sign in with Apple’ is Actually Pretty Great
Progress Blog
What the Apple Supreme Court Decision Means for Developers
NativeScript Blog
Implementing Mobile Biometric Authentication Systems
Progress Blog
How to Secure Front-End Code by Moving it to the Cloud
Progress Blog
How to Get Started With Kinvey and NativeScript—Fast
Progress Blog

2018

How to Build a PWA, an iOS App, and an Android App—From One Codebase
NativeScript Blog
4 Things Developers Take for Granted That Used to Be Really Hard
DEV Community
Would Airbnb Have Fared Better With NativeScript Instead of React Native?
NativeScript Blog
Showing an Activity Indicator During Processing in NativeScript Apps
NativeScript Blog
Customizing the iOS Keyboard in Your NativeScript Apps
NativeScript Blog
Setting Up a Robust NativeScript-Vue Development Environment
NativeScript Blog
Enterprise Authentication Made Easier with NativeScript
NativeScript Blog
Choosing Between Progressive Web Apps, React Native & NativeScript in 2018
Telerik Blog
Using Plugins in NativeScript Playground
Announcing NativeScript-Vue 1.0
NativeScript Blog
Building an Awesome Login Screen with NativeScript
NativeScript Blog
Getting Started with Augmented Reality in NativeScript
NativeScript Blog

2017

My NativeScript Development Workflow
NativeScript Blog
NativeScript UI is Now Free—Here’s How to Get Started
NativeScript Blog
Life Pro Tip: Use Emoji in Calendar Events
Protecting Your Source Code with Jscrambler
NativeScript Blog
Building Native iOS and Android Apps With Vue and NativeScript
Telerik Developer Network
Tips for Writing Good Technical Content
A Love Letter to CSS
Telerik Developer Network
8 Steps to Publish Your NativeScript App to the App Stores
NativeScript Blog
A Step-By-Step Guide for Building Master-Detail User Interfaces with Angular
Telerik Developer Network
JavaScript in 2017 – Beyond the Browser
Telerik Developer Network
In Defense of Large Native Apps
Telerik Developer Network
What is Angular?
Telerik Developer Network
Including External Articles in Your Jekyll Post List

2016

Cross-Browser HTML5 Form Validation is Finally Here! Now What?
Telerik Developer Network
The Diminishing Use Case of Hybrid Apps
Telerik Developer Network
Is jQuery Still Relevant?
Telerik Developer Network
How to Write NativeScript Plugins and Why They’re Easier Than Cordova Plugins
Telerik Developer Network
How to Successfully Contribute to Large Open Source Projects
Telerik Developer Network
Some Advice for Companies Fighting Ad Blockers
Telerik Developer Network
Will Angular 2 Take Off?
Telerik Developer Network
Why Do My Emoji Look Black and White and Boring on Windows?
How Emoji Can Improve Your Code—Seriously
How I Build For Proprietary Platforms and Sleep at Night
Telerik Developer Network
Building Polished Mobile Apps with Telerik UI for NativeScript
Telerik Developer Network
Starting NativeScript Apps From Templates
Using CocoaPods in NativeScript Versus React Native
What To Expect From JavaScript In 2016 – Beyond the Browser
Telerik Developer Network

2015

What the Hell Does console.error.bind(console) Do?
Technical Blogs’ Line Length Problem
What Progressive Web Apps Mean for the Web
Telerik Developer Network
Building Mobile Apps with Angular 2 and NativeScript
Official Angular Blog
Stop OS X From Formatting Command-Line Flags
Fixing Stupid Mistakes in Git Pull Requests
Telerik Developer Network
Defining a New Breed of Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
Telerik Developer Network
Preview NativeScript Apps in a Browser with Appetize
Handling Failed HTTP Responses With fetch()
You Might Not Need an Apple Watch App
Telerik Developer Network
Safari is Not the New IE, But...
Telerik Developer Network
My Gif Creation Workflow
Mobile Safari's Performance is Not the Problem
The Web's Cruft Problem
Telerik Developer Network
NativeScript Quick Tip: Showing and Hiding Elements
Linting JavaScript in NativeScript Apps
The Rise of TypeScript?
Telerik Developer Network
Building Your Own NativeScript Modules for npm
Telerik Developer Network
NativeScript Quick Tip: Managing iOS Navigation Bars
How NativeScript Works
Telerik Developer Network
Building Robust Cordova Apps with AppBuilder and Grunt
Telerik Developer Network
A reportValidity() Use Case and Polyfill
How I Built an iOS & Android App in a Week
Telerik Developer Network
Speed Up Your Cordova App with the WKWebView Plugin
Getting Started with Kendo UI Core
Updating Google Play and iOS App Store Version Numbers with the AppBuilder CLI
The 300 ms Click Delay and iOS 8
Telerik Developer Network

2014

So You Want to Write a Tech Book
What Android 5.0’s Auto-Updating WebView Means for Mobile Apps
Telerik Developer Network
Adding Native Touches to Your Hybrid App
Telerik Developer Network
Building HTML5 Form Validation Bubble Replacements
Telerik Developer Network
Why the Scroll Event Change in iOS 8 is a Big Deal
Telerik Developer Network
Supercharge Your App Development with Ionic and AppBuilder
Telerik Developer Network
A Comprehensive Guide to Styling File Inputs
Telerik Developer Network
The Problem With Using HTML Imports For Dependency Management
Why Web Components Are Ready for Production
Telerik Developer Network
Building a PhoneGap App in 10 Seconds Using Nothing But a CLI
An Addendum to Why Web Components Aren't Ready for Production Yet
Why Web Components Aren’t Ready for Production… Yet
Telerik Developer Network
The Cordova Plugin Ecosystem Is a Mess — This Is What We’re Doing About It
Telerik Developer Network
A jQuery UI Vertical Tabs Extension
Trimming Down jQuery With Grunt
Telerik Developer Network
jQuery: Using Only What You Need
Telerik Developer Network
Mobile And Accessibility: Why You Should Care And What You Can Do About It
Smashing Magazine
The State of Hybrid Mobile Development
Telerik Developer Network
Using Semantic HTML to Drive Display Logic
Using UI Libraries Without the Bloat
Telerik Developer Network
A Concise Guide to Remote Debugging on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
Telerik Developer Network
Effect of iOS 7.1's minimal-ui Viewport Property
Is jQuery Too Big For Mobile?
ModernWeb
Connecting AppBuilder Projects to Facebook
Head-to-Head: HTML5 Controls vs jQuery UI
net Magazine
Only the gzip Size Matters
Speaking Tip: Use the iPad's Clock App as a Timer

2013

Why Is Styling Form Elements So Damn Hard?
What Exactly Is..... The 300ms Click Delay
Telerik Developer Network
Everything Hybrid Web Apps Need to Know About the Status Bar in iOS7
Telerik Developer Network
Hey Developers - You Should Spell Check Your Documentation
Building Custom Text Strikethroughs with CSS
Bugs with document.activeElement in Internet Explorer
New Beginnings
Creating a jQuery UI Dialog with a Submit Button
Internet Explorer, Attribute Selectors, and Really Long Attribute Values
Using Semantic Class Names to Show and Hide Elements
Showing a Resize Icon on a jQuery UI Dialog
Why are Enter Keypresses Clicking My Buttons in IE?
Using Ternary Operators for More Maintainable Templates
Showing a CSS-Based Loading Animation While Your Site Loads
HTML5 Datalists: What They Are They and When to Use Them
Script Junkie
List of Pseudo-Elements to Style Form Controls
Shorthand for Preventing Default Event Actions with jQuery
Better Ways of Comparing a JavaScript String to Multiple Values
Creating Custom Tooltips with jQuery UI
Script Junkie
Using jQuery UI Tabs with the <base> Tag
Opera Moves to WebKit - Why We Should Care
Stop Messing with the Browser's Default Focus outline
Keyboard Shortcuts for OS X Web Developers
Detecting Internet Explorer without jQuery
HTML 5 hidden Attribute Browser Support
Using the body Element as a Top Level Container - Is it Safe Yet?
The Enter Key should Submit Forms, Stop Suppressing it

2012

Debugging Print Stylesheets: Now Significantly Easier in Chrome
Creating Cross-Browser Scrollable <tbody>s—A CSS-Only Approach
Creating a Polished Vertical Tabs Interaction with jQuery UI
Adding Pointers to jQuery UI Tooltips
Front End Efficiency - The Top Ten
maxlength Constraint Validation Oddities in Major Browsers
Constraint Validation: Native Client Side Validation for Web Forms
HTML5 Rocks
Using the Attribute Selector with Numeric Values
Using jQuery UI's Slider to Polyfill HTML5's input[type=range]
HTML5 Form Validation - Start Using it in Production Applications
Google Analytics - Excluding Your Own Visits in Development and Production
Logging Test Failures in a PhantomJS QUnit Runner
onscroll Event Issues on Mobile Browsers
Subpixel Animation Issues in IE < 9
LESS 101 - The Basics of the CSS Preprocessor
HTML5 Form Validation - Showing All Error Messages
DOM Element References as Global Variables
Native HTML5 Number Picker and jQuery UI's Spinner - Which to Use?
Default Browser Handling of the CSS text-transform Property
The Ideal LESS Workflow with git
Creating a Native HTML 5 Datepicker with a Fallback to jQuery UI
Detecting Print Requests with JavaScript
Browser CSS Parsing Discrepancies
window.showModalDialog: What It is and Why You Should Never Use It
Styling Disabled Form Fields
IE7 Attribute Selector Bugs
Making a 3D Picture Cube with CSS3
CSS3 Color Animations