When I was building my first full-scale Firebase app, I quickly discovered that search is one of the drawbacks of firestore. From the docs: Cloud Firestore doesn’t support native indexing or search for text fields in documents. In other words, if you are coming form MySQL, there is no “LIKE”…

Podfan is trying something new— and trying to solve one of the core problems of podcasting at the same time. Discoverability Discovering new podcasts is an old problem of podcasting, and something we’ve tried to solve many ways — with social podcast apps, an untold number of recommendation blogs, charts and…

How much headspace is wasted on anxiety? Or, how much headspace do you give to something you read on twitter, or heard on a podcast, saw on Instagram, or read on this very site? For me, way too much. Giving headspace to these anxieties is an opportunity cost. In a…

Have you ever wished there was an RxJs method that would let you have one observable for multiple observable streams that are constantly starting and completing? In marble syntax, they might look like this: ^-a---b--c---| ^---d---e-f---| ^g--h----i-| Here, an observable stream starts, emits some values, and then completes. And then…

Idle games are my guilty addiction. It could be because, at my station in life, I get a dopamine hit from accomplishing things. Or it could be because these games are designed to form an addiction. Possibly because I don’t have the time to invest in “real” games. Maybe because…

A guided tour of your options and how to implement them. Supporting a user’s locale and language is an often overlooked but important way to make your app user-friendly. When you internationalize your app, you’ve taken an important step in making your app accessible and usable for more users around the world. This article has moved: https://blog.briebug.com/blog/internationalizing-your-angular-app

Using WebSockets may seem daunting, but they are delightfully simple. And what you’ll be really glad to know, is that RxJs ships with a thin wrapper around the native browser WebSocket client. No additional third party dependencies are needed, and you get an observable data stream right out of the box! This article has moved: https://blog.briebug.com/blog/making-use-of-websockets-in-angular

The Material CDK released Drag and Drop in version 7, and it offers a powerful api for supporting drag and drop in your Angular app! The Material Tree is also a recent addition to Material, and it makes it possible to display structured data like a file explorer. This article has moved: https://blog.briebug.com/blog/angular-how-to-implement-drag-and-drop-in-a-material-tree

Apple has thus far been a noble steward of podcasts, and you could easily make the case that Apple brought podcasts into the mainstream, by making them freely accessible and open for anyone to create without a fee. While podcasts have enriched the Apple ecosystem, podcasting has grown to a…