https://tany4.com/blog Posts on React, React Native, AI tooling, debugging, testing, performance and engineering practices. en-GB Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://tany4.com/blog/posts/what-i-take-from-kent-c-dodds-agent-setup https://tany4.com/blog/posts/what-i-take-from-kent-c-dodds-agent-setup Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Kent C. Dodds ships code he hasn't read. I run AI coding agents in parallel the same way. What our setups share, what I'm taking from his, and what I'm not. AI https://tany4.com/blog/posts/running-ai-coding-sessions-in-parallel https://tany4.com/blog/posts/running-ai-coding-sessions-in-parallel Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT How I went from two or three AI coding sessions to as many as fifteen at once on a two-person team, what broke along the way, and the hub session I added to keep track of it all. AI https://tany4.com/blog/posts/greek-voice-commands-for-android-auto https://tany4.com/blog/posts/greek-voice-commands-for-android-auto Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Google Assistant doesn't speak Greek in the car, so I built an Android Auto app in Kotlin that does: Greek speech, and contacts saved in Greeklish. AI Mobile Side projects https://tany4.com/blog/posts/teaching-my-job-hunting-mcp-server-what-it-can-do https://tany4.com/blog/posts/teaching-my-job-hunting-mcp-server-what-it-can-do Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT My MCP server's agent kept saying things weren't possible, adding duplicate rows and ignoring a linked doc. The fix was better tool descriptions. AI MCP Side projects https://tany4.com/blog/posts/taking-my-job-hunting-mcp-server-remote https://tany4.com/blog/posts/taking-my-job-hunting-mcp-server-remote Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT I turned my job-hunting MCP server from a laptop-only tool into a remote one I use from my phone: the transport switch, free hosting, and a 502 only ChatGPT hit. AI MCP Side projects https://tany4.com/blog/posts/marios-helper-v2 https://tany4.com/blog/posts/marios-helper-v2 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT A year ago I built an Expo app to remind me about my dog's eye drops. I came back to it with Claude Code, fixed the notification bugs, and rewrote most of it. AI React Native Mobile Side projects https://tany4.com/blog/posts/building-a-job-hunting-mcp-server https://tany4.com/blog/posts/building-a-job-hunting-mcp-server Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT I built a personal MCP server that researches companies, scores how well a job fits, and tracks my applications. AI MCP Side projects https://tany4.com/blog/posts/seven-years-at-olio https://tany4.com/blog/posts/seven-years-at-olio Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:00:00 GMT What I learned in 7 years at Olio, going from mid-level developer to Tech Lead: architecture, shipping products and working with people. Career https://tany4.com/blog/posts/vibe-coded-ai-chatbot-weekend https://tany4.com/blog/posts/vibe-coded-ai-chatbot-weekend Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT One evening I built a small AI chatbot into this site with the Vercel AI SDK. It only answers questions about my actual work. AI Side projects https://tany4.com/blog/posts/getting-confident-with-github-mcp-server-a-real-qa-win https://tany4.com/blog/posts/getting-confident-with-github-mcp-server-a-real-qa-win Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:52:00 GMT I had to QA a back-end PR with almost no context. GitHub MCP Server helped me do it, and also got one important detail wrong. AI MCP Testing https://tany4.com/blog/posts/experimenting-with-github-mcp-server-as-a-frontend-dev https://tany4.com/blog/posts/experimenting-with-github-mcp-server-as-a-frontend-dev Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:52:00 GMT Using GitHub's MCP Server as a front-end developer to understand back-end code faster and improve my types, without jumping between repos. AI MCP https://tany4.com/blog/posts/jsvidcon-2020 https://tany4.com/blog/posts/jsvidcon-2020 Thu, 07 May 2020 21:30:00 GMT My JS VidCon talk on how Olio uses React Native to reduce food waste: how we migrated a production app quickly and kept performance and developer experience under control. Talks React Native Mobile https://tany4.com/blog/posts/mocking-react-native-0.61-modules-with-jest https://tany4.com/blog/posts/mocking-react-native-0.61-modules-with-jest Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:00:50 GMT React Native 0.61 removed Haste and broke a lot of Jest mocks. Why it happened and how I fixed it. Testing React Native Mobile https://tany4.com/blog/posts/react-conf-2019 https://tany4.com/blog/posts/react-conf-2019 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:00:50 GMT My talk at React Conf 2019 on how we built and migrated the Olio app to React Native with a tiny team, what broke, and what we'd do differently. Talks React Native Mobile