I found the idea of chatbots very exciting when the trend started a few years ago, to the point that I tried to build a startup around chatbot based food delivery (it didn’t go well). The allure to me was the potential to simplify the web. …

Why install Wordpress, Drupal or Ghost when you can use the markdown editor and pull request functionality of GitHub as the backend for your next blog? In this article, we’ll build a simple blog using GitHub, Nuxt (Vue.js), Nuxt Content and Zeit Vercel. — We’ll start off by scaffolding a…

You’ve refined cards, drawn sketches and created designs, but now you need a way to get your product in-front of real users. Without user feedback, how do you know if you’re on the right track? The first step is to build something for your users to interact with. To do…

What is Full-Stack UX? As a frontend developer, its hard to avoid the necessity of knowing how backend systems work. Heck, you’ll probably even be required to gasp write backend code on occasion. This is because frontend and backend developers often work hand in hand, and collaboration is fundamental to getting work done. So…

It used to be that developing in Python on Windows required a bunch of setup (installing Python, pip, setting up your PATH) and managing virtual environments. The days of this are over though with the latest update to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. The Visual Studio Code Remote update adds…

Fifteen years ago I began my journey as a young programmer. It was summer vacation, I had been riding my bike through town when I spotted a garage sale. I pulled up, dumped my bike in the grass, and started browsing the dusty old boxes on display. Most of them contained random nick-knacks, stuff that any kid would gloss over. But…

I am sad to announce that I will be shutting down the MetaShort service, effective immediately. MetaShort has been a wonderful project to work on, and it has been amazing seeing the number of people that found value in the product. Unfortunately the project has become unmaintainable given server issues…

I’ve jumped between apartments quite a bit over the past 7 years. My first time renting I was naive, I didn’t take pictures when moving in and I expected that if left the place in a fairly good condition I would get my deposit back. …

On September 14th I created a folder called “finish me” on my desktop.This was the start of another silly idea that was going to distract me from the idea I was already working on (and grow into the #3 product on ProductHunt less than a month later).