This is awesome, however I just spent a month making the exact same thing. Oh well, I might give this a go and see if this is more in line with what I want to do.
It's just a navigation library, it (on a basic level) lets you change pages when making an App with React Native. What's nice is that this works for both iOS and Andriod as the standard built in one has issues (from my experience) with Android. Also, I agree that sentence is terribly written.
It's a nice little book. Normally these things can be a bit hit and miss with the way the authors opinion of code structure seeps into them. You often end up with a bit of a 'this is wrong' mentality when in fact there is nothing wrong at all - thankfully they seem to of avoided that with this one.
I would agree that London is a fast flowing city when it comes to cycling but it is also a pretty dangerous one. I've personally seen another cyclist killed while out on my bike and I know we have a bit of a problem with just how dangerous the roads can be while on a bike.
I've heard that too, I remember a story from a worker who said they put all the Engineers into a room and said they can't leave until an issue was fixed. Took them two days.
You worked on the newer Video Player for the Guardian? Coincidently I created the really old one built in Flash, never had too many bugs though since most of the work was already done with the Flash framework. Just visual stuff going all over the place.
It's pretty common for a VC to give a start-up a corner of their office space here in London. There are a few in my office, seems crazy it's not more common place in SF.