Kevin Simons (@ksimons)

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

A few weeks ago, the Kitemaker team was working on diagnosing a performance problem one of our larger customers reported. A few seconds after loading Kitemaker, the app would freeze up for several seconds before becoming responsive again. After diggi...

Feb 9, 2023 · 5 min readblog.kitemaker.co

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

When building a product, it’s important that everyone on the team has a shared understanding of what to build, why it’s important, and a plan for how to make it real. The most common way to get the team aligned is to write a document containing all t...

Jan 18, 2023 · 6 min readblog.kitemaker.co

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

At Kitemaker, we recently made the leap to Recoil.js for our React state management needs. Before using Recoil, Kitemaker used a simple state management solution built upon useReducer(). We built Kitemaker to be super fast, responding to every user i...

7Oct 12, 2022 · 7 min readblog.kitemaker.co

Issue trackers considered harmful

Issue trackers are great at what they were built for. Namely, tracking bugs. But using them for tracking a product development workflow has a lot of issues, perhaps not widely known in the tech community. Most product development frameworks, like Scr...

1Aug 23, 2022 · 4 min readblog.kitemaker.co

Empower your engineers

I recently read a great article by Gergely Orosz called "What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not", and in it he makes a few points that really resonated with me as an engineering leader: Treat engineers ...

Jan 14, 2021 · 4 min readblog.kitemaker.co

Kevin Simons

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Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

Issue trackers considered harmful

Empower your engineers

Kevin Simons

About

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Kevin Simons's blogs

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

Issue trackers considered harmful

Empower your engineers

Kevin Simons

About

Available for

Kevin Simons's blogs

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

Issue trackers considered harmful

Empower your engineers

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Kevin Simons

About

Available for

Kevin Simons's blogs

Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL

How to write great one-pagers, PRDs, Specs, and more

Lessons learned from moving to Recoil.js

Issue trackers considered harmful

Empower your engineers