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.
Fancy Pixel Team 2 min read
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Everything we publish, in chronological order.
Why we picked Astro for our company blog
Islands architecture, zero JavaScript by default, type-safe Content Collections: what won us over after evaluating Hugo, Eleventy and Next.js.
Fancy Pixel Team 6 min read
Welcome to the Fancy Pixel blog
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.
Fancy Pixel Team 2 min read
Moving to WatchOS 2
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,…
Andrea Mazzini 11 min read
Playing with UIDynamics in iOS 9
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…
Andrea Mazzini 8 min read
iOS9 notifications and Text Input
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…
Andrea Mazzini 2 min read
APIs with Rails:<br/>render :json => the_simple_way
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…
Alessandro Verlato 7 min read
Gulps: new open source WatchKit app
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…
Andrea Mazzini 1 min read
Share data between WatchKit and your app with Realm
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,…
Andrea Mazzini 8 min read
React + Flux backed by Rails API - Part 3
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.
Andrea Mazzini 7 min read
React + Flux backed by Rails API - Part 2
This is the second part of "React + Flux backed by Rails API", make sure to checkout Part 1.
Andrea Mazzini 15 min read
React + Flux backed by Rails API - 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…
Andrea Mazzini 8 min read
Fun with iBeacon
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…
Andrea Mazzini 6 min read