Roilan Salinas

Smack: Mic’s Slack Bot for Live SMS Coverage

A few weeks ago, the Mic Product team were testing the idea of sending our users a series of SMS messages as a part of a story. We wanted to see what kind of user engagement we would see and if users were even interested in having messages sent…

Server side rendering with React and Express

This weekend I started a side project where I wanted to render from the server. I didn’t need anything special or fancy like Redux or React Router. All the tutorials and suggestions I’ve found online went way too deep. It seemed nothing covered just…

Creating and Sending Reusable Emails with React

A couple weeks ago, I was tasked with coding emails. Oh, great… emails. I didn’t want to spend the next couple weeks coding tables for hours every day. There had to be a better way.