Giacomo Cerquone

google meet Featured

Unconventional Meet

I took some time to develop and publish a very small Google Chrome extension to improve Google Meet's experience and solve some pain points I've always had.

javascript Featured

Why does console.log hate me?

Have you ever felt like console.log hates you? If yes or you just want to know a bit more about its quirks, have a quick read!

React

Debug web apps running on native mobile devices

Sometimes bugs can only be reproduced in the specific environment they are discovered. What if they're found on an Android or iOS device?

pwa

Sharing a YouTube video to a PWA for background listening

How do you define the act of sharing something towards an application? We'll discover it in the process of creating a YouTube background audio listener PWA.

js Featured

What's an object identity in JavaScript?

What's an object's identity? and what does "stable identity" mean in React? Let's dive a bit into it together!

UI

On the importance of monorepos and component libraries

Are you working on a huge untested "legacy" JS codebase? I might have some tips for you 🙂

React

A solution to handling modals in React

I want to show you a new solution for handling modals in large React applications as a result of a big refactor in my work in Musixmatch.

a11y

A11y on mobile: how to build UIs that don't break

You should be aware of the accessibility settings on mobile devices which might break your app's UI. Let's see what we can do in React Native

React

Life and death of the usePrevious hook

We will understand the usePrevious hook's common implementation and then we will see some issues it might bring and how to solve them.

keyboards

My new custom keyboard

During the pandemic, I got attached to a "new" peculiar hobby of building keyboards.

React Native

Get started with React Native

There are many ways of booting up a React Native application. Which one should you use?

React Native

The AppStore certificates jungle

To all the mobile native devs... I feel your pain. Only we know what does it mean to manage the certificates of an iOS application

React Native

Re-thinking env vars in React Native

If there is one thing I hate about react native it's the inexistent way of using environment variables

React Native

Microsoft CodePush Integration in React Native 0.60+

Microsoft CodePush is a powerful tool but can be very exhausting to configure. Let's cycle over the necessary details

React Native

Why I Dropped Expo and embraced React Native

What are the main problems with Expo at this time? And what can be the advantages of using a pure React Native workflow?

fetch

A very simple fetch wrapper ready to use

A handy thin fetch wrapper in less than 100 lines featuring abortion (with polyfill for non-supporting envs), token setter, etc.

React Native

Aborting requests in React Native

How can we close an active connection initiated with Fetch? And most important, what do we mean by "closing a connection"?

arduino

Path Follower: Arduino+Rasp on ROS

We've created a path follower and maze solver robot car with, arduino, raspberry, ROS, Vrep and a bunch of other stuff

bot

How we built our university's bot

Sharing this little story of how I created a Telegram bot for our university

arduino

Jingle Bells with a Buzzer and Arduino

How to make your Arduino play Jingle Bells with a little buzzer and a 220ohm resistor.

node.js

Look up movie ratings with node.js

Movies Lookup is a little node.js project to lookup ratings of many movies all together on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.

CSS

Loading animation with pure CSS

A little and simple pure CSS loading animation took directly from my new project.

Open Source

Back up a Tumblr blog using its API

Let’s use Tumblr’s API to save every text post from a specified blog.

Open Source

How the Popcorn Time's API works

I developed this little library to let developers create their own remote controller for PopcornTime.

Untagged

Welcome to my fresh new blog!

How could I start everything without a first post where I welcome you?