modernization13 min read
BLUD: every drop of donated milk has a name
How we moved the software that tracks donated human milk to React and TypeScript, after more than a decade locked to Silverlight and Internet Explorer.
Giulio Riberto
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Everything we publish, in chronological order.
performance18 min read
When Node.js isn't enough: a Rust library to optimize a marine radar
How we profiled an Electron app for a maritime radar, found the heaviest functions with help from AI, and moved the most-used functions to Rust compiled to WebAssembly, without throwing away the UI.
Giovanni Foiani
iot7 min read
VigilHub: protecting warehouse racking, from blank page to the pallet pushing back
How Fancy Pixel turned Cognitiva's idea into VigilHub: custom electronics, a 3D-printed bumper and a multitenant web app to monitor impacts and deformation of pallet support beams.
Alessandro Verlato
smart-mobility4 min read
Agrimove: technology making agricultural transport safer and more lawful
How Agrimove, a project between AMI Ferrara and Fancy Pixel, turned worker transport into a tracked, safe, and sustainable service.
Caterina Meneghini
astro6 min read
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
ios11 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
swift8 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
ios2 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
ruby7 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
swift1 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
ios8 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
rails7 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
rails15 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
rails8 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
ios6 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
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