Tyler Souza

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Hi! I'm Tyler 👋

This is my digital corner on the interwebs.

Mostly talking about tech and code.

My Thoughts

I Migrated My Personal Website from Jekyll to Laravel. New Year, New Site!

01.14.2025

Re-designing my site has been something I have been putting off for far too long now. My goal has been to build my personal website to b...

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Quickly Extracting Specific Parts of a String in PHP

05.18.2023

In the current project I am working on, there are certain characters within a string that identify a part that get decoded before they ...

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Serializer Magic with Django REST Framework

12.09.2022

Currently, I am on a quest to build a social network for developers and using the Django REST Framework to build out the API backend. W...

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Processing Large Tasks with Laravel Queues

07.12.2020

Recently, I tackled an interesting problem with an app I’m building. Just for context and without going into too much detail, this syst...

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So I Want to Learn How to Build a Compiler

05.10.2020

I love learning and talking about programming languages. Mostly enjoy a different way of thinking that comes with it. Bring up Haskell? ...

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Slack Bot Idea: Working with Some Data with Python

06.07.2019

A lot of times at the office around lunch time, one of us will ask everyone what their lunch plans are via Slack. This leads to one or a...

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My “A-ha” Moment with Go - Understanding the Interface

01.29.2019

I’ve been using and toying with Go for almost two years now. At the time I decided to learn the language, I was curious on what this lan...

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Some Philosophies on Separating Your Stack

11.06.2018

For web applications, it’s a common pattern to separate your backend (typically a REST API) from your front-end/user interface nowadays....

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Part 1: Wavvy, My Open Source Project Idea. Providing REST API Helpers and Syntactic Sugar

08.08.2018

I've decided to start an open source project and fill another repository on my GitHub. Since I've been working more on the backend side ...

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Pondering About My Main Backend Techstack of Choice

07.07.2018

For about eight months or so, I decided to commit myself and focus on Node.js as my main backend techstack of choice. PHP/Laravel have t...

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Quick Thoughts on Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns

12.10.2015

As a developer, a lot of times I feel constantly worried that I’m doing the “wrong thing” when I’m writing code. I worry if I’m doing “x...

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