December 28, 2020
I am naturally curious about the APIs that the devices in my house use, so when I got an air quality monitor, one of the first things I did was fiddle with the REST APIs that were made available through the device.
December 24, 2020
Some of the more traditional approaches to taking digital notes work quite well in 99% of cases - I think most of the tools on the market are doing a marvelous job. But I often caught myself needing something more, specifically for notes that I wanted to write once and frequently refer to later (e.g. details about specific projects that don't change often).
December 6, 2020
In 2020, it might seem like the art of crafting your own personal site became a thing of the past. Most of the engagement happens on social networks or inside walled gardens.
November 16, 2020
Talk about making some life changes in a short period of time! I am genuinely pumped to be coming back to something that is near and dear to my heart - developer relations.
November 12, 2020
It's the perfect time to drink coffee, sit inside, and code. There was just one problem with that for me - I actually need to step away from my machine from time to time to brew some coffee, and while I was gone, the computer would go to sleep, and I needed to wake it up, enter my credentials.
November 7, 2020
It finally happened - after almost five years of sticking with macOS and a MacBook, I gave up and built my own desktop computer.
August 26, 2020
I recently moved all my development boxes to Windows. That’s right, all those Mac machines, with the exception of one that I need for testing, have been Boot Camp-ed to use the latest and greatest of the Windows 10 ecosystem. As part of this process, I started building some automation scripts - I’ve had that for macOS in the form of shell scripts that I could run whenever I re-installed the system, but nothing like that for Windows.
August 1, 2020
In the past couple of months, folks asked me how I got into product management. While everyone probably wants to hear an overly romanticized story about how this was my passion from an early age, the reality is much funnier - it was an accident. I never had any plan to be in product management, and yet, this is how I built my career. This essay is a story of how I got to be in the role I am today.
July 8, 2020
Sometimes, you code for the sake of coding, and build something that is just fun. Back in June, my good friend Dan Fernandez came up with the idea of a website that can create Zoom meeting screenshots that place people in the company of celebrities, animals, or the Brady Bunch. That is, we’re not cool enough to actually hang out with said celebrities, but we can at least pretend that we chat with them over Zoom, to the surprise of our friends and family.
July 4, 2020
I am using a Raspberry Pi device for experimentation purposes, and I had to temporarily enable SSH on it via the public Internet, which can be a monumentally bad idea if the machine where the service is enabled is not properly secured. The problem is less related to SSH itself, and more to the default configuration which is used by some folks. That is - they use passwords to authenticate.