I’ve recently embarked on rewriting Agora using NextJS 13 and it’s stirring up some serious déjà vu of my Rails and Django days back in 2007-2009. The premise of a framework-driven infrastructure resonates with me. Coupled with the prospect of partnering with Vercel, I’m eagerly anticipating a
Lately, I’ve started answering sales calls. Yes, those unexpected interruptions that occur just as you’re settling into work. As a father and husband, I never set my phone to Do Not Disturb or Focus mode, as there’s always the underlying fear of a call from school or
Often times as programmers, we use tools like LLMV to copy and paste code from one place to another. We can debate the pros and cons of this another day but my challenge to you is to write the code yourself. Don’t copy and paste. You’ll learn more
I am excited for Threads. I think it could be the Twitter of old. Let’s go Mark.
There are always new buzzwords and concepts that capture our attention. GPT-4 has been one of the most talked-about developments in the field of artificial intelligence. However, as I look at the trajectory of GPT-4, it’s worth comparing it to a previous moment in tech history: the 3D printing
I have been a Ruby on Rails developer since the pre 1.0 days and truly do love the framework and all it has to offer. However, for those paying attention, around the time of Rails 4-5ish area the growing power of React and Node was becoming overwhealming and while
I was visting my parents today and my mom brought up the Starship explosion. In case you missed it, the testflight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded this week during a testflight. I am sure this was a dissapointing day and a massive setback, but did you know that in
Not more than a year ago I told myself and the world that I would stop jumping around from blogging platform to platform. Dreamweaver then Blogger then Posterous then Wordpress then Ghost then Jekyll then Posthaven then Hugo then Gatsby then Wordpress then Jekyll And here we are, and here
My resolution this year is to say yes to more of those coffee dates you get asked to go on. They start like Hey! I was wondering if I could grab a coffee with you and get your help with hunting for my next gig, been working as a growth
I will write a book, how hard can it be? I think back to this article I read So You Want to be a Writer?, that prompted me to publicly commit and write this writing daily and back then, in September I committed to write 80 posts by the end
When I was younger I spent a lot of time thinking about my legacy. Now, I do too but in a very different way. I came up in the age right after the dot com boom and bust. I learned how to program and build web and mobile apps in
VR is in the arcade phase. When I go to play a game, it looks amazing and fun, and when given the option between campaign or arcade, I pick arcade. The games are loud, often involve guns, and much like when I was at birthday parties back in the 90s
