Refactoring - Part 1 Just like last year, Q4 is usually spent with improving Stencil quality including fixing bugs, refactoring, and removing technical debts. I did a big refactor on the core of Stencil - image generation. It took me couple of weeks to come with a good refactor that…
Learn multiple approaches to create a type safe design for doing interop with JavaScript-land.…
Exactly one year has passed since I wrote the first commit! 🎉🎉🎉 I have reached my goal that I had set a year ago - to consistently work on a single side project for a year. I wrote the first code for Stencil on December 28, 2020 and launched Stencil on…
I have been writing ReScript [https://rescript-lang.org] for a number of years at Plow [https://plowtech.net]. Writing ReScript has been an enjoyable experience even at one point we never had a single runtime error for close to two years. That is really amazing compared to the JavaScript experience.…
It's almost at the end of 2021 and I am left with a decision on what should I be exploring next year. I have been doing this one-year-exploration-kind-of-thing for the past 3 years. The rule is simple, stick with one area for the rest of the year. > For the past…
In this third series of Bootstrapping Stencil. I will go into details the marketing challenges that I am facing and all the strategies that I employed and their outcomes in order to improve my product's traffic.…
When I started working on Stencil, one of the main challenges wasn't technical. I've been a software engineer for about 8 years now and experience has taught me that most technical problems can be fixed with enough time. The real problem was finding the time to work. Most interviews on…
Follow my journey bootstrapping Stencil. Read some of the lessons I learnt from launching Stencil publicly.…