Alvin Crespo | Engineering Leader

Introduction Here's something that might surprise you: The OpenAI API doesn't remember anything between API calls.

If you’re using WSL like I am on Windows 11 - you most likely have run into the issue where launching WSL from the applications menu was starting you at /mnt/c/windows/system32: If you need to customize this to work in your home directory, you can customi…

Working with large datasets across multiple tables is a common challenge in enterprise applications, particularly those with rich histories and substantial data accumulation over time.

Handling subscription payments is a common requirement for many modern web applications.

In my previous article, we set up a development environment for a Vite + React application using Docker.

Facilitating honest, authentic engagement, while not overwhelming stakeholders and contributors with information and updates (or starving them of information), is the best way to help individuals and groups appreciate project pitfalls, understand project…

In this new series, "Tool Breakdown", I'm walking through the core mechanics of the tools I use in various projects.

I’ve recently jumped back into React / Frontend development and was curious what tools the cool kids are using these days.

Prerequisites Docker version 4.37.1 or later Basic familiarity with Docker Compose Multiple Docker Compose files in your environment The Problem This week I ran into a fun issue at work having to do with setting up our local development environment.

Rails 8.0 introduces a significant change to route loading behavior, lazy loading routes by default in development and test.

Over a 25-year life expectancy of a large software system, almost fifty cents out of every dollar will go to finding and fixing bugs.

In my last blog post, I walked you through the implementation of a scalable export system in a Ruby on Rails application.

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I was curious if there was a way to configure Github copilot to NOT have access to certain files in a project and found that - it’s not necessarily straightforward.

Today I was writing some tests and dug into a little bit of ViewComponent and Capybara.

I use ohmyzsh as my preferred shell setup.

We’ve all been taught the benefits of normalizing our data.

Background Over the winter break I updated our gardening app, Jardim.io, to Rails 7.

Guiding Principle A good tech stack is one that scales faster than the people required to maintain it.

Have you ever had to integrate OAuth?