What chess means to me — Today marks the seven-year anniversary of my signing up for Chess.com. Chess.com is a site that pairs people from around the world together for lives games of chess. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts on what chess means to me. I grew up with chess being…

A personal thank you — In many cultures around the world, there is a concept of giving thanks and appreciation. In Judaism, it is a central theme. When a person gets up in the morning the very first thing they are supposed to say is ‘Modeh Ani’ thanking God for giving life back to the…

Since tonight is the 1st night of Chanukah I thought I would share something about this Jewish holiday. A quick rundown of what Chanukah is about. In the second century BCE, Israel was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks). They tried to force the Jews to accept Greek culture and beliefs…

Assuming you have a React Native Firebase app and now you want a simple tutorial on how to use Firebase Storage, you came to the right place. First, let’s understand how it works and some key concepts. How it works Let us compare it to how your computer filing system works. I am…

Starting from April 30, 2020 Apple requires that all existing applications using external 3rd party login services (such as Facebook, Twitter, Google etc) must ensure that Apple Sign-In is also provided. This means that the app I am working on which uses Google Sign-In (with Firebase) now needs to be…

Before you get started you need to follow the guide on React Native docs to get a signed release APK. Once that is done you are ready to begin. Install Fastlane # Using RubyGems (Preferred method) sudo gem install fastlane -NV # Alternatively using Homebrew brew install fastlane Once that is done…

I wrote a blog previously on how to upload your React Native app to TestFlight. But what happens if you want to send your app out to get tested by people that aren’t on your team? So there are a couple of options that Apple allows. One of them is…

When it comes to developing an app one of the most frustrating things that could happen is not knowing where an error is coming from. Errors are software engineers' bread and butter. It is our guidepost to what we are doing wrong and what we are doing right. It forces…

Routing and navigation for your React Native apps — React Native is similar to React, however, it is sometimes good to remember that you are building an application and not a web page. So when it comes to navigation things work differently as well. Normally, you would use something like an <a> tag to link to a different page…