web development

Learn about Sencha's ExtReact, making cross-platform desktop and mobile components available for the React framework, in this interview.

I wanted to create a cross-platform app to aggregate all my todos across various services. I turned to Flutter; was it a good idea? Read on to find out.

I have stuffed so much into [my website](https://github.com/ChrisChinchilla/chrischinchilla.com) over the years it was starting to creak at the seams. For most of its life, at least the life I can remember, I used [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com). When the life of this website began, Jekyll was still fairly new and my mind was blown by static site generators (I probably migrated from Drupal, which was my thing back in the early 2000s). When I reworked it a couple of years ago, I considered other options but ended up settling back to what I already knew well. In honesty, Jeky...

Or, maybe in a more click-generating sub-heading, “how to combine creative writing and programming to create interactive fiction”. In this post and the accompanying video version, I look at how people have created works of fiction where you have a degree of control over the narrative for the past 60 years. This includes paper-based books, computer games, and much more. I realise that the history may go further back than the 1970s, but that’s where I chose to start my adventure, and maybe I’ll l...