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I launched Aurelius last week. Here are a some notes on how I launched, how it went, and how I would launch products in the future.

I recently automated more of my development workflow — this time for tmux. I used a CLI tool called smug and wrote configurations for automatically setting up my tmux sessions.

This is a small journal entry about a few ambitious projects that inspire me. And also about my anxiety when I think about my own ambitious project ideas.

Reflecting on regrets and wins of 2024. Reviving projects, learning new things, and setting personal challenges for the year's final stretch. A self-reminder to push harder.

In this post, I'll talk about how I'm building a RESTful API by generating Go code from an OpenAPI specification.

While I don't think local-first is a one-size-fits-all way to build apps, I think they'll become ubiquitous. And a lot more developers are going to build local-first features into their apps.

For my entire professional career I've only worked in the JavaScript ecosystem. It was great — for the most part — but recently I've been kinda looking for something different.

There's a lot to love about Remix. But what I've found recently is Remix is a great choice for local-first apps.

After a long time of not working on side projects, I started to miss it again a few weeks back. This came almost right after realizing that all my side projects were dead. So the first step was to revive my favorite project.

I haven't updated any of my projects in a while and I also stopped using most of them. Some of them are still useful but it's fine to move on from projects that are no longer needed.

The server vs serverless argument is seemingly never ending but I haven't changed my stance. Just use a server. It's not that hard.

An app that I was using everyday is shutting down. With nowhere to import the data I exported from this app, I'm thinking about the ephemeral nature of closed-source software and how open-source can mostly mitigate this problem.

Will a beloved project management software built for teams, work for personal use?

After I finish a book, here are the things I consider when choosing what to read next

Here are my 2024 goals for level up as a software engineer

I recently played a 3D puzzle platformer called Cocoon. I was so awestruck by its beautify and game design, I decided to write about it.

After over 10 months of using the Neovim, I've decided to move back to WebStorm and RustRover. Here's why.

In this post, I'll walkthrough how I combine three of my favorite technologies - Remix, Prisma, and Planetscale - to build fullstack applications

If you're building a shared library or publishing a library to NPM, then this stack will save you so much time and effort.

After over 6 months of using the IdeaVim plugin with WebStorm and learning Vim keybindings, I've finally made the move to Neovim, full time.

I built my own React UI component library. It's called Catalyst UI. Here's why I decided to do it in 2023, when there are plenty of other options.

I have a few things I want to accomplish in 2023. Here are the ones that are related to software and development.

I've completely switched to using Remix for my projects. Here's why.

I've been using GitHub Copilot, since it became generally available a month ago. Here's my experience using it for the past month.

I recently updated my Remix Stack, called Synthwave Stack. Here are some of the choices I made and why I made them.

I decided that it's time I put in some effort and learn Vim. Here's how it went.

Git worktree is a feature that lets you check out more than one branch at a time. They've been such a gamechanger for my git workflow.

A while ago, I wrote about how I'm learning Rust. I've actually stopped and chose to learn Go instead.

I had a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around parsing date and time in Go. Here's how I made sense of it.

Building projects that you would actually use is the best way to learn new things in software

I think I'm burnt out

In this article, I explain how to set up a database on Planetscale and how to connect a Next.js app to the database using Prisma.

With Remix Stacks, you can get a Remix application fully-configured and ready to deploy with one command!

In this post, I'll walk you through how I set up my Linux terminal workflow with very little effort and how you can do the same.

This year, I've updated my tech stack for building web applications.

How does the compiler/interpreter know how many variables there are, how to allocate memory, and what to do about that silly mistake you made? How do you design a programming language from scratch(-ish)?

There are plenty of web technologies to learn and use in 2022. Here are my goals for learning web and related technologies this year.

I'm having trouble launching stuff

Rust's Ownership model is a difficult concept for many newcomers to the language. In this article I attempt to explain the concept.

What do I do before I start a project?

I was curious about how software is written for space travel. Here are a series of stories answering the questions I had about the process, testing, conventions and more about software for space.

In this article, I show how we can add Stripe subscriptions to a Next.js application.

I recently heard about the Temporal API and how it fixes issues with the current date implementation in JavaScript. In this article I talk about Temporal API and its features, comparing it to Date.

Building breakable toys is one of the best way I know, to learn a new programming language or technology. In this article I write about the features of a breakable toy.

The story of why and how I'm on the path to becoming a writer.

I recently decided to learn the Rust programming language. This is an introductory post on why I decided to learn Rust and how I'm going about it.

I recently set up a Next.js application to be served over HTTPS in localhost using mkcert. This is how I did it in under 5 minutes.

In this article, I write about all the tools and applications I use on Linux every day to build web applications and be productive.

In this article, I talk about optional chaining and all the things that we can do with it apart from reading nested object properties.

Next.js when combined with Chakra UI and MongoDB is a great way to build powerful web applications while moving fast and has a good developer experience.

The default way to fetch data in React applications is good. There is a better way and is super fun to use. It's called SWR.

In this article, I talk about building a Preact widget, why I chose Preact, and the configuration required to set it all up.

WebContainer is a new technology that lets us run Node.js natively in the browser. Built in webassembly, it's blazing fast, secure by default and enables seamless debugging in the Chrome DevTools.

A complete Terraform tutorial covering fundamental topics like infrastructure as code, terraform providers, state, terraform plan and terraform apply.

Amazon Web Services is one of the largest cloud service providers in the world. Thousands of software companies around the world have hosted their products on AWS. Netflix, Twitch, Airbnb, and Lyft use AWS to serve millions of customers worldwide.

Tailwind works by exposing a ton of CSS utility classes. But that line doesn't even begin to cover how powerful it makes you as a web developer.

Networking in AWS spans multiple services. Each has its own set of features that provides an incredible level of flexibility for your needs.

Do you know what I think the coolest law of physics is? It's the second law of thermodynamics — entropy. In this article, I talk about entropy in software and how to mitigate it.

When you build your software, should you go for monolithic or microservices architecture? This is one of the hottest arguments in developer circles. There are advocates for either side and the argument is never-ending.

In this article, I'll walk you through the first steps that I did after creating the AWS account. Some of these steps may seem unnecessary but they are good practices to follow when using AWS.