My first React Native App

Why did I write a React Native app? I’ve always been language agnostic, there’s no single language that rules them all. Each language has its feel, syntax, purpose, and style. There are languages that prefer a functional programming style, others that prefer objects. There are stateless and stateful paradigms. While the time involve was brief, …

CSS inliners

At the moment, I’m working with a company where I’m handling their email templates. One tool I found to be very useful are CSS inliners. I won’t be discussing Inky templates in this post. I’ve been using https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/tools/css-inliner/ and for the most part, it works perfect. The only down side is that I have to …

Skills, degrees, or product?

In the recent explosion of technology and all the varying degrees of “skills” that result from it. I feel a little overwhelmed. I am from a time where tech was essentially Apache, HTML, Javascript, CSS, and some sort of language that supports dynamic generation of HTML aka, DHTML. Then with every language there’s it’s evolving …

Perfection Paralysis

I’ve spent more than a decade in professional software development. I’ve seen and fought this demon time and time again. The demon’s name is Perfection Paralysis. It’s quite the beast. When you have so many eyes reviewing and critiquing your code, you want to be the best you can possibly be. You want your code …

Enable Infinite Homepage Scrolling on Note 4 (rooted Android 6.0)

So! My loyalty to the Note 4 at this point is borderline fanatical. Samsung has YET to make a better phone, in fact, neither has Apple. I’ve recently bought a Verizon Note 4 to replace my T-mobile Note 4, since Verizon allows me to use both T-mobile and Verizon, but the T-mobile version wouldn’t work …

Useful command to test speed of a container, vm, or system

I’ll be breaking down the following command part by part: time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dat bs=1024 count=100000   What does time do? It runs a process and then captures how long it took to execute. What about DD? Well, it’s a command that copies data from a standard input to a standard output. What about the …

Amazon S3 Outage

Today’s post is regarding https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps/ These type of occurrences are becoming more and more common. Tons of company has placed a ton of faith into the Amazon ecosystem, and time and time again, it looks like Amazon has let them down. When these things broke, it broke at a MASSIVE scale (AWS outage knocks Amazon, Netflix, …

How I cleaned more than 8,000 thousand emails from my mail box

Long long time ago, briefly after the birth of gmail, I created an email account, and mail was good. Fast forward to now, holy spams. Years and more than a decade of neglect, I’ve managed to amass more than 11,000 emails, and this is post spam filter. I guess over the years, I must’ve signed …