Hey. My name is
Isaac
and I write
Apps
Book
Articles
Comparing frameworks for cross-platform apps: Flutter vs. React Native The Overflow An overview of Flutter and React Native based on my experiences building the same app from scratch in both frameworks.
How to interrogate unfamiliar code The Overflow A set of techniques for understanding difficult pieces of code. Reading code takes time and effort, but it's one of the most valuable skills a programmer can build.
C#: IEnumerable, yield return, and lazy evaluation The Overflow An introduction to IEnumerable, the most common interface for iteration in C#. There are a few things that make IEnumerable special—and a few things that make it tricky.
Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers The Overflow Anything that affects the mental state of a programmer, communication within their team, or the incentives attached to their work is likely to be reflected in their code. Promoting code quality, then, is partially a matter of improving organizational health and competence as a whole.
Can developer productivity be measured? The Overflow Defining and measuring programmer productivity is one of the most difficult parts of an engineering manager or CTO's job description. When everything you do is intangible, how should you measure it? Can it be measured at all?
Open source
JS Powered Search Maintainer A VS Code extension for fast, powerful, programmatic, repeatable codebase searches. VS Code API, TypeScript Compiler, Mocha, Sinon.JS
Novel Word Count Maintainer An Obsidian knowledge base plugin that displays a word count, page count, or other statistic for each file, folder and vault in the File Explorer. Obsidian Developer API, TypeScript
Cashmere Contributor, 2018–23 An Angular component library and living style guide for Health Catalyst software products. Angular, SASS, Webpack
Viano Maintainer A code toy that lets you write songs using Vue components. Web Audio API, Vue, SASS
JSON Measuring Tape Maintainer An in-browser tool that displays an expandable tree of any JSON object with the size of each property and its percent share of the entire object. Vue, JSON
Preferred Technologies
