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Making of a shared path

This is an entry in my series Things I learned. Here I learned the value of sending many emails and not to be afraid of dog poop. In December 2017 we moved into our current apartment. Back then, there was a path nearby, that looked promising, but ended after 5 meters. There was a sign […]

Things I learned: some 90s arabic pop

A few days ago I was in one of my favorite locations in my city quarter of Köln, Café Casablanca. While drinking my green tea with Morrocan mint, I noticed a song and especially it’s very catchy hook. I used my phone to give me a title and saved it for later. Later at home, […]

Things I learned: transpiling React Native JavaScript with babel in 2025

At work we’re using React Native to build our Android and iOS app. We use it with Hermes, a JavaScript engine Facebook/Meta built for React Native, which doesn’t have a JIT compiler, but is instead optimized for fast startup, by compiling JavaScript to a type of bytecode during build time. Hermes supports plenty of modern […]