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I write about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and web development focused on SaaS applications. Join me as I explore the intersection of AI and modern web development.
...and I'm a Ruby on Rails fanboy.
Trying to make a bootstrapped company a profitable one is not easy. You not only have to adjust and pivot your strategy and your business model but you also have to deal with limited resources. That is why one of the most valuable resources of a startup is the ability to be flexible. If we translate the need of flexibility to the development team we find out why small companies should only hire fullstack developers.
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If you've never heard of GatsbyJS it's an amazing static website generator that will help you to create progressive web apps using the JAM Stack. Don't let the word static website generator confuse you. With GatsbyJS you can generate really interactive websites leveraging the power of React and GraphQL.
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I've written a post for Happy Mood Score. It's called: Why regular feedback is so important for remote users.You can find advice on topics like:Non-verbal communicationEncourage collaborationFocus on achievements not hoursAvoid the Green dot syndromeAsk how your employees feel as much as what they are doing.You can read the article here: Why regular feedback is so important for remote users.
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Requesting developers to do a test code is a common practice. But it's rude and it makes you look like an amateur recruiter.
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A few weeks ago I wrote an article about how to use Higher Order Components with Apollo client. Now that we have Apollo components let's refactor that code and see how it can be improved.
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I've been working in companies of different sizes both as a freelancer, employee and founder and although logic dictates that the size of the company will affect the way you work, I've seen developers that always try to work in the same way. You should adapt to the constrains and advantages that the company's size imposes on you.
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I'm going to talk about a metric that I've created that serves me as a warning signal to detect if a react component is doing too much stuff.
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Higher Order Components is a useful pattern that has a lot of uses to make your React code easy to read and maintain. In this post I'm going to explain how to use Higher Order Components, HOC from now on, to keep your code DRY.
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This weird error took me a while to debug and in the end it had a very simple solution. Error message: PromiseRejectionHandledWarning: Promise rejection was handled asynchronously. Solution: I was sending an integer when a param of type string was expected.
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My React Native app was working without problems on iOS but when I started expo to run the app on my android phone I had this weird graphql error: Unhandled (in react-apollo:Apollo )
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I had a really weird problem today deploying to production using mup. After deployment the docker container was reseting itself every 30 seconds or so. After inspecting the container I was able to trace it to two node packages: bcrypt and unicode.
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When create your own startup and have a technological background, as I do, is very easy to think that what your customers need is a product full of features. But what your customers need is a product that makes their lives easier.
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