I’ve had the pleasure to watch the Firebase product grow from an idea our office buddies had as a startup, into a formidable product, and then to a suite of products at Google. I’ve been really impressed with what the founders have done. Hats off to them. This is not a fluff piece for a friend though….
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I was a heavy Github user. That is to say, I used them exclusively for my code projects. For a long time, there was no question in my mind of who to give my projects to. Even when Gitlab entered the market, my first thought was, these guys are just copying GH, why would I…
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TL;DR As the saying goes: You don’t know the extent of the pain you have suffered until you have found some relief. Okay, well, that may not be a saying at all, but it will be the feeling you have when you make the switch from npm to Yarn. The Problem npm is slow, non-deterministic…
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Updated 7/12/2016: Applying a web server, See end of the post. Updated 9/29/2016: Mounting Docker so you can edit container using IDE This week I decided it was high time I learned docker. Below is how I wish a “getting started page” was laid out for me in retrospect; would have saved a lot of time…. At a high-level,…
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FB Messenger Python Port on StackOverflow The current Quickstart guide for the new FB Messenger Chatbot is in Node.JS. I am currently working on a project in Python and couldn’t find any Copy & Paste-able Python webhooks. So, I created one myself. Hope this is helpful to someone else FB Chatbot Code Snippet on Gist
If you haven’t picked up any iOS development skills yet, now is the time. It’s never been easier. Below are my reasons to finally take the plunge (successfully), followed by some helpful links to help you learn to create your first app too. Contrary to popular belief, I’ve never coded up an iOS app myself. My excuse? For one, hiring…
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One of my more recent pet projects has been to create a web-based application using Polymer 1.0, a web framework Google released at their I/O conference this past Spring. In short, I don’t think I can ever go back to developing on the web without it. Not only do I strongly suggest everyone give Polymer 1.0 a try, but…
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I’m a big fan of Heroku setup for pet projects. With it I am able to quickly deploy a project without having to develop on some proprietary framework or prep a server to host a website. I especially love how easy it is to deploy directly from my local machine through a git push to master,…
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For our latest project at Socialize Isaac and I are going to increase the release cycle even further and go from a few releases per group per week, to a few releases per day. I find moving more efficiently and quickly over the years always takes a few non-intuitive jarring mental steps. (If they didn’t…
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Here is another quick tool built on GAE. This one is super simple, but pretty handy. Today Twitter went down, and somewhere in our system we were using the Twitter API to display one of our status feeds. Them being down became us being slow. Well, I wanted to do some quick tests to keep…
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