https://bool.ca/A variety of topics that I've spent time on over my career. 2023-06-21T17:00:23+00:00 Ryan Jones https://bool.ca/ Jekyll © 2023 Ryan Jones /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-06-19T21:05:00+00:00 2023-06-19T21:05:00+00:00 https://bool.ca/blog/2023/06/19/jobber-s-react-native-migration-success/ Ryan Jones

January ‘23 was an exciting month. Not only did we raise a Series D but we launched our new version of the Jobber app which is now powered by React Native. This post is mainly coming from the engineering lens. If that’s your jam, continue reading! I’m going to try and provide as much insight as I can to what happens ‘behind the curtains’ on one of these types of projects. Don’t care about t...

2022-12-23T03:36:00+00:00 2022-12-23T03:36:00+00:00 https://bool.ca/blog/2022/12/23/re-enable-face-id-for-apple-s-family-sharing/ Ryan Jones

When Face ID first came out I still preferred entering my password for app store purchases. It just felt more safe/secure. As time went on my trust built in Face ID and I use it wherever possible. We use Apple’s Family Sharing feature which allows the kids to request apps from the app store and then I can approve their purchases on my phone. The first time this happened I chose the option not ...

2022-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 2022-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 https://bool.ca/blog/2022/12/18/blog-migration-yetagain/ Ryan Jones

Finally got a bit of free time to migrate my blog again as Octopress is EOL. I’ve moved from Octopress hosted on AWS over to Jekyll w/ the Chirpy theme hosted on Github pages + Github actions. Canadian geese migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll, or South, whichever So far the journey for my blog has been Wordpress -> Octopress/AWS (S3/Cloudfront) -> Medium -> Jekyll/Github pages. It m...

2019-03-09T00:00:00+00:00 2019-03-09T00:00:00+00:00 https://bool.ca/blog/2019/03/09/aws-appsync-calculator/ Ryan Jones

We’ve been leveraging AWS AppSync more and more recently and it really bugged me that AWS doesn’t have a calculator for it. As you start using more features such as websockets (which they refer to as “real-time data access and updates”) it starts to get really complicated. I was doing it through an excel spreadsheet but recently I created a small react.js app deployed on AWS Amplify Console. ...

2018-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 2018-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://bool.ca/blog/2018/12/01/aws-lambda-ruby-performance/ Ryan Jones

AWS recently released Ruby as a language for their lambda (serverless) platform. This is quite exciting as it’s one of my favourite languages to develop in. Of course, there’s always this whole ‘Ruby is slow’ comment that’s constantly made. In my experience I’ve never hit a performance wall with Ruby. In scenarios where I thought I was hitting a wall, it was generally down to poor architectur...