Hoarding Minimalist. Product-minded Software Engineer. Usually confused. on Kevin Quinn

Having search on your site is a big plus for the user experience (and for finding that piece of content I remember writing but can’t find!).

I frequently run into the situation where I want the elegance of Python Flask routing on an AWS Lambda, but without the extra hassle of using the framework on a simple project.

Plenty of times I’ve run into logging Python dict and needing to convert them to JSON for whatever reason.

Over 9 months ago, I set out with a simple task: take the 3-D printed Halo Pelican I was given as a gift and paint it.

Something to keep in mind when building - if you have a validated idea and are confident people will pay you money to use it, don’t waste time designing a stack based on free tiers.

Notes https://twitter.com/tibo_maker/status/1425774071296544773 How do you build SaaS from scratch?

These are the questions I wish I would have been asked before wasting hour after hour on projects which never launched ❌🚀 or were a Solution Looking for a Problem.

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What if I said you could write a book in 1 month?

Using the command line in it’s default state is doable, in the same way eating plain toast 🍞 every morning will feed you.

You want an awesome ad blocker on your local network using Pi-hole , but don’t want to dig for answers?

I’ve enjoyed tracking my daily notes in Obsidian so far, but it was a bit more complicated to get configured than I thought it would be, so I’m sharing it here to hopefully make setup smoother for those in the future - as well as a few extra credit pieces…

You open a project to contribute code and quickly realize it requires a specific Python version you don’t have.

I really like the idea of tracking the ‘Firsts’ I experience in my life, so starting it off with the first ‘Firsts’!

It’s the first few hours of being 26, the year of 25 has breathed it’s last.

Inspired by Trevor Mckendrick’s yearly themes idea, I wanted to create my own, seems like a valid experiment to hopefully have a fantastic year.

Cameo recently became a Unicorn when they raised their $100 million Series C (March 2021) .

Core list of inspiring tales from Life Has No Speed Limits .

There’s a lot of great ideas swirling around from fantastic minds.

A simple recipe, only 3 required ingredients and only takes a few minutes to make, just as long as it takes for your chosen chorizo to finish cooking.

Do you want to be more than a code monkey ?

Starting a project is easy.

For 2 decades I dreaded the act of writing and found it a chore.

This is a snapshot in time of the productivity system I use: what it is, where it came from, and where it might go.

I stumbled onto Ballerina a few months back during a random jaunt through the interwebs, and after digging through their site I was intrigued enough by their features & guiding principles to give it an expanded ‘Hello World!’

I stumbled onto Ballerina a few months back during a random jaunt through the interwebs, and after digging through their site I was intrigued enough by their features & guiding principles to give it an expanded ‘Hello World!’

It’s so easy as a developer to dismiss the idea of learning no-code tools.

There’s no impact on your life if you pick the perfect burger at McDonald’s.

The founding stories of big tech companies get people pumped on the idea of starting their own thing, from SaaS products to paid newsletters .

I lied.

It’s taken me a long time to give myself permission to write.

We’ve all done it.

I’m taking a pledge right now.

Coding is a tool, but there is so much depth within that it often feels like an art form.

There are two versions of your life: the one you are living in & the one you dream about.

A user-friendly way to get data over SMS (text messages) when your cell service is 💩.

The following is a collection of tips I’ve curated working with a few different organizations using Slack that range in size from 3 people to thousands.

Projects listed below are in a very rough chronological order.

Most used emoji: 😬 Current city: Chicago, IL - but my heart’s still in Wisconsin.

My money-saving baby is finally in an acceptable state, Madtown Deals .

Working with a couple of friends who were interested in the idea, we finally got around to getting Gymnastics Text up and running.

At my apartment we have a new friend…Pi Hole!

Hackathons!!!!

I’ve been bumming around with Flask recently and came across an issue that took me quite a while to find the workaround for so figured I’d share it here.

Since I have now had to fix my Windows 10/Linux dual boot multiple times now, I figure I probably should start documenting it to save time in the future (Also, what a great chance to gripe about Windows amiright?).

Once I’ve finished the couple projects I’m currently working on, I’ll be using this post to document my process in completing sms2sheets, and then also as a link to the later posts when I use that knowledge to hopefully convert the Gymnastics Club carpool…

That may or may not be the last pun on this page, turn back now if you can’t handle the highest form of comedy known to man.

Where I work, KDE plasma is the desktop that so happens to reside on my machine.

No, I did not, considering I had never even heard of PXE booting until I started my co-op.