Ideas, experiments and deep-dives from the Fancy Pixel team: industrial software, IoT, mobile and web.https://blog.fancypixel.it/en-UShttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/iot-field-protocols/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/iot-field-protocols/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.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTiotindustry-4-0opc-uamqttFancy Pixel Teamhttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/astro-island-architecture/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/astro-island-architecture/Islands architecture, zero JavaScript by default, type-safe Content Collections: what won us over after evaluating Hugo, Eleventy and Next.js.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrofrontendstatic-siteFancy Pixel Teamhttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/welcome-to-the-blog/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/welcome-to-the-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.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTannouncementcultureFancy Pixel Teamhttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/moving-to-watchos-2/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/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,…Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:35:45 GMTioswatchoswatchkitswiftAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/playing-with-uidynamics-in-ios-9/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/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…Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:35:31 GMTswiftiosuidynamicsAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/ios9-notifications-and-text-input/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/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…Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:03:06 GMTiosswiftAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/apis-with-rails-render-json-the-simple-way/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/apis-with-rails-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…Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:50:41 GMTrubyrailsapijsonAlessandro Verlatohttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/gulps-new-open-source-watchkit-app/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/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…Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:26:20 GMTswiftioswatchkitrealmAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/share-data-between-watchkit-and-your-app-with-realm/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/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,…Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:00:32 GMTiosswiftapplewatchwatchkitrealmAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/react-plus-flux-backed-by-rails-api-part-3/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/react-plus-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.Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:40:43 GMTrailsapireactfluxjavascriptAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/react-plus-flux-backed-by-rails-api-part-2/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/react-plus-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.Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:31:00 GMTrailsapireactfluxjavascriptAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/react-plus-flux-backed-by-rails-api-part-1/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/react-plus-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…Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:04:00 GMTrailsapireactfluxjavascriptAndrea Mazzinihttps://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/fun-with-ibeacon/https://blog.fancypixel.it/en/blog/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…Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:47:00 GMTiosbeaconrailsAndrea Mazzini