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...
Read moreQuickly 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 ...
Read moreSerializer 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...
Read moreProcessing 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...
Read moreSo 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? ...
Read moreSlack 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...
Read moreMy “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...
Read moreSome 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....
Read morePart 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 ...
Read morePondering 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...
Read moreQuick 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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