I cancelled my Spotify Premium, so I could afford GitHub Copilot. I was not disappointed.
I've been using Copilot for a few days now, and it's been a game changer. I've been able to write code faster than ever before. GitHub Copilot has been the best autocomplete I've ever used …
I was updating my resume the other night. I want to meet other technologists through meetups and conventions, so I thought it would be a good time to update my elevator pitch.
What better way to craft an elevator pitch than looking through your resume? Since I …
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I stopped using Standard Notes and Tresorit early 2020 for a few reasons: 1) Sync was super slow. - This …
I worked on Android development and Web development these past three years. Here's my attempt to compare and contrast the two.
I was a "full-stack web" software engineer from 2018 to 2019. My team used Ruby on Rails for backend and ReactJS with a bit of AngularJS for frontend …
GunplaHub is now deployed at https://gunplahub.com!
1) Intro, Technical Decisions, What's Next
2) Slugs, Obfuscated Primary Keys
3) Deployment and Serving Images
4) Refactor and Document Often
5) (Current) Automation and SEO
Price tracking is a core feature …
Eight months since my last update! I started working again on GunplaHub in April 2018. Like always, it was mostly an on-off relationship on weekday nights and some weekends.
I achieved what I set out to do at the end of my previous post fairly quickly thanks to VueJS. I …
Working alone =/= working in a team. There might be things in your code now that might not be as easy to understand for other developers, including your future self. This is not about spending an hour automating a boring task. These tips are simple trivial changes. Simple enough that you …
This third update has a mostly to do with deployment. It's amazing how many free/cheap tools are at my disposal!
From my last post: My progress is currently in a private Gitlab repository. I also have a Heroku account that I’m not using. I like both services, as …
In an older post, I gave an update about my gallery API for toys (more specifically, robot action figures called Gundams). Today I'll talk about what GunplaHub will do initially, the technical decisions I've made while building this project, and what's next for it.
2018-06-17 Edit: The project is now …
Gunplahub is a free price tracker for model kits called Gunpla.
I just spent the weekend trying my hand at Libgdx. For fun I started a project using the following:
These are the same tools I use at my day job and other Android projects! It's awesome to jump into a new framework with …
A short Android developer's guide on how to make responsive UI that makes both phone and tablet users happy. This is the companion blog post for my 10 minute presentation of the same title. There are code samples in the Example section of this post.
You can see the actual …
tl;dr - Will be deleting Gunpla Viewer from Google Play Store. Back in early 2016, Gunpla Viewer helped me find a job I really like.
This is a copy-pasta of my reddit post regarding Gunpla Viewer
Hello there! About two years ago, I posted here about Gunpla Viewer, an Android …
Android Studio is a bit daunting because there a lot of options and menus at startup. This guide will help you setup Android Studio so you can be productive right away.
On the Welcome to Android Studio …