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I had abandoned all hope for frontend and maximized on minimalism by ditching all frameworks and returning to proverbial html, css and js. This left me blindsided by the strides being made by the messy webdev and designers community while I went on learning how to write better code in the first place. I could also say that this gave time for technologies to rise and mature. This week I came across React Native Expo and I decided that this was the Framework I was going to stick with and master in order to build cross-platform applications with ease. ...

December 21st marked the winter solstice: the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Then as spring arrives, we reach equilibrium again. Summer follows bringing its own shift towards the longest day of the year before autumn brings it back to equilibrium. And the cycle continues. I think we can find something profound in something as granted as the stable cycle of the seasons. Understanding cycles can be more than just poetic contemplation. ...

Earlier in the year, I got to contribute to a case study by helping with the software engineering, consisting on implementing an LLM Agentic AI System with a Chatbot frontend, we did this for a real business in the retail sector and measured it’s feasibility. This gave me a real project to sharpen my Langchain claws. This blog post will soon be written in further detail about building agentic workflows for the LLM to invoke, integrating data sources, and how we tied it all together with a system of webhooks and event handlers. ...

Setting up a lab for Network Traffic Analysis is one of those projects that has been floating around my list of things to do. It feels like such a useful and genuinely insightful look into the connections that a computer interacts with throughout every day. Being able to log, analyze, raise alerts and subsequently automate analysis and even take informed proactive action on a system based on the data; these are skills that feel infinitely valuable for any system exposed to the Internet or a Local Area Network. ...

I bought a new NVMe drive and decided this was as good a time as any to actually understand what I was doing instead of just copying commands from Stack Overflow until something worked. Here’s what I learned about block devices, partition tables, and why everyone still pretends sectors are 512 bytes when they haven’t been for years. Finding the Drive First step: figure out where the hell the new drive actually is. ...

Like learning how to structure a written article properly. Or resume sharpening a dulled skill, re-learning how to write properly for example, excercising that muscle and struggling to spell the word ’excercise’ correctly in the process. This article is a latent argument of the benefits of forming a habit out of doing things that seem challenging. For its sake and to that end we could compile a comprehensive list of those arguments across history and philosophy, Bertrand Russell style, but instead I choose to present only a sample of what were the most memorable for me during my search; since it will make for a more enjoyable experience, to write and hopefully to read as well, I opt out to be the judge of that last claim. ...