OPC UA vs MQTT: how we pick a protocol for industrial IoT
Two protocols, two philosophies. When we go OPC UA, when we go MQTT-SN, and why they often end up coexisting on the same plant.
Everything we publish, in chronological order.
Two protocols, two philosophies. When we go OPC UA, when we go MQTT-SN, and why they often end up coexisting on the same plant.
Islands architecture, zero JavaScript by default, type-safe Content Collections: what won us over after evaluating Hugo, Eleventy and Next.js.
We're opening the doors to our workshop: what we'll publish here, why we do it, and how we want to talk about it.
A while ago we released Gulps on the AppStore. Gulps is a simple water tracking app that also reminds you when to drink throughout the day. This was an app of "firsts" for me: first Swift app,…
UIDynamics was a welcome addition to the iOS 7 SDK. It's basically a physics engine backing common UIViews, allowing us to define physics traits to the UI elements. The API is fairly…
When iOS8 opened the API to have actionable notifications many of us were disappointed that the text input action used in Messages wasn't available. It turns out that with iOS9 this API is now…
Lately my work at Fancy Pixel has focused on the backend of a product we're about to launch and for which we decided to build a JSON API-only server. These APIs can be consumed from third party…
We released a new app on the AppStore and decided to open source it. The app is called Gulps, a simple tracker of your daily water consumption. Gulps was a fun little side project built to learn a…
It's been a busy year for iOS developers. We got a slew of new toys to play with: a new version of iOS, new frameworks, a new language, new screen sizes and some new hardware to put on our wrists,…
This is the last part of "React + Flux backed by Rails API", make sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you have missed them.
This is the second part of "React + Flux backed by Rails API", make sure to checkout Part 1.
I've been working on a frontend for a project we are developing here at Fancy Pixel. We are embracing what looks like a good habit: slicing what would be a monolithic Rails app in a lightweight…
You probably know already what iBeacon is, but just to reiterate, iBeacon is the Apple way of saying Bluetooth 4 Low Energy. At the cost of sounding like a mindless drone, by 'the Apple way of' I…