Nano's Random Ramblings

I built a tool to catalog the work I forget.

AI is leverage on what you already know.

AI accelerated individual engineering.

Trust but verify.

Engineers want to solve their own problems, and AI made acting on that motivation cheap.

If you don't know how your tools work, you're guessing.

Your screenshot is not an argument.

I had a plan to fix the Swift migration.

I joined a company in 2019 to build a bank.

I used to think success was about crushing it on your best days.

I've been thinking about how we switch between exploration and execution modes, both in startups and personal projects.

Every developer knows that sinking feeling when a "quick" project becomes a multi-week saga.

I originally pre-ordered the Prusa XL 5 head semi-assembled and received it in the beginning of the year.

A new Advent of Code style coding puzzle was released this year and it's been so fun to play.

Apple announced their new MacBooks with M4 processors.

I've been tinkering away on my /uses page and it's time for a grand reveal.

I've been busy behind the scenes, sprucing things up on my site, and I can't wait to share the latest and greatest updates with you all.

As part of the redesign, I wanted to choose new fonts.

Updating the blog's theming to use new CSS techniques, avoiding flash-of-unstyled-content, and handling OS-level dark/light preferences.

This site is currently under major construction.

We are officially halfway through 2020 and boy has it been a wild ride.

See the hardware and software I use daily

An interesting podcast I liked about how the modern economy came to be.

Define an extension on Sequence to make compactMap backwards compatible.

Pass flags to your iOS App without prepending -D

Adding comments via utteranc.es

Avoid using relative imports via import {} from '../../..

Search CocoaPods and copy pod 'Pod' to your clipboard with Alfred

Where I use Kotlin to load the last visited URL

Using the CITEXT PostgreSQL data type with Knex.js

Allow SPA routers to handle your frontend routes.

I've gotten back into using Elm for a pet project of mine.

A quick way to get an array of unique values

Where I fix commits that were signed but unverified in Github.

Where I talk about adding a new feature to my blog where you can switch between a Night and Day theme.

A fix for nokogiri 1.6.8.1 on macOS Sierra by updating libxml2

A fix for hangs that occur on react-native init on macOS Sierra.

My experience transitioning from Octopress 2.0 to Jekyll 3

A look into Rails 4's add_reference

Use lsof to learn what your processes use behind the scenes

Add support to iTerm2 for ⌥ and ⌘ modifiers to move between words

Continue setting up Rails to use Nginx on a VPS

Tutorial on how to move your Rails project to a VPS

Learn how to setup PostgreSQL on a Mac via CLI or an application

A look into how to install and use tmux

Learn how to amend your git commits with a simple fix