I Write to Share What I Learned

Frontend

Everything you need to know about the component-oriented library.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

React 18 released the highly anticipated concurrent features. In this article, we are diving into a 3D visualization and discuss how to optimize its performance step by step with React 18's concurrent rendering.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

After migrating to Contentlayer, I started exploring how to use the content data to roll out a search feature for my portfolio. Inspired by some of the amazing open-source projects, I built my own full-text search engine in Rust and WebAssembly. It is fast, lightweight, and tons of fun to build!

Daw-Chih Liou

Leadership

Operating as a principal software engineer is all about bringing engineering, business, and people close together. There are many things to consider in terms of time budget, resources, and even your own involvement when it comes to planning. I want to share with you how I think about the important questions to ask in the planning phase of the project.

Daw-Chih Liou

Frontend

Recently I have been researching on reducing the effort to create a new article on my static website. I analyzed more and found out the friction was in my MDX usage with Next.js. After shifting to Contentlayer, publishing content becomes so effortless. I will show you how.

Daw-Chih Liou

Leadership

I recently joined a European public company as a Lead Software Engineer. The role has a combined responsibility of Principal Software Engineer and Senior Engineering Manager. It is challenging but I was prepared. I want to share with you 50+ books and resources that help me in my journey.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

I was struggling with Rust's ownership when implementing a Binary Tree so I re-read about it. After taking my time understanding it and refactoring, I finally made a breakthrough😎 I'm very excited to share with you the awesome features in Rust I came across. You'll see interesting concepts like smart pointers and ownership.

Daw-Chih Liou

Rust

Text is essential in programming languages. String is the Rust's and JavaScript's definition to process text in written languages around the world. Through the simple concept of string indexing, we'll discuss how Rust and JavaScript process strings and how they handle the nuances in strings such as grapheme, or even emojis.

Daw-Chih Liou

TypeScript

Writing CLIs feels like a super power💯 You can write one too! I'll show you how to develop a CLI with TypeScript step by step and demonstrate how you can apply your CLI in CD/CI pipelines. We're going to uncover the power of Google Lighthouse and many more amazing npm packages!

Daw-Chih Liou

Frontend

How trivago Frontend Engineering revamped the company's Business Intelligence web application. After almost a decade, we decided to rebuild our in-house Business Intelligence web application to better support the organization. We successfully completed the project because we fundamentally challenged and re-thought all aspects of the project.

Daw-Chih Liou

Performance

WebP is a modern image format that provides outstanding image quality with smaller image size. I'll show you how much you can benefit from it and how to setup your project for optimal developer experience.

Daw-Chih Liou

Leadership

Practical experience that shapes billion dollar enterprise. I have been very fortunate to take a part in important topics at trivago. We have brought groundbreaking changes in accommodation search. It was clear that our data-informed approach is the foundation to innovation. I want to share with you our learnings.

Daw-Chih Liou

Frontend

Marble testing is a brilliant way to test observables. It focuses on the behaviors of observables over time. The combination of test assertion and marble diagram let us visualize the progression of emitted values over time.

Daw-Chih Liou

Engineering Culture

A recap of the 5-day JavaScript journey. It has been a couple of months since Kyle, author of the “You Don’t Know JS” series, visited our trivago headquarters and gave us a wonderful JavaScript workshop. It was such an enjoyable week, being able to meet Kyle in person and walk through his thinking behind the materials.

Daw-Chih Liou

JavaScript

What is transducing? Simply put, it’s a data transformation process without creating intermediate products. It’s like a pipeline. It’s your data on one end, and the pipeline transforms the data and produce your output on the other end.

Daw-Chih Liou