Andrea Giammarchi aka WebReflection is a very prolific open source creator. Even if you don't know him or one of his projects (yet), you might have used some of his work.
React Conf 2018 just ended. Even though I didn't watch any of the videos (yet), it seems like an upcoming feature proposal called Hooks, available in React v16.7.0-alpha, was presented there.
I let the contract for my old domain run out a long time ago, and since then I've also been on a blogging hiatus (except for posts written for company blogs).