I might be late to the party on this one, but I recently upgraded to the new 14" M1 Pro MacBook, and with it came all the software updates I’d been ignoring on my old MacBook. PS: if you’re thinking about upgrading to M1 Pro or M1 Max, especially coming…

For years I’ve had my web apps poll various endpoints when I needed “real-time” updates… honestly just because I didn’t know any better. As you might imagine, this created tons of issues as time went on. My servers were getting a crazy number of unnecessary requests, and every now and…

Get more signups on your next project with a referral program — Referral programs are everywhere. Just about any time you sign up for a new SaaS product or subscribe to a hot new email newsletter, you’re given a referral link you can share with others for a special bonus. Creating a referral program is an incredible way to get social proof…

It’s easy, I promise! I recently started using Rasa to create a chatbot for my job. Rasa is an extremely powerful open source conversational AI for building contextual assistants (or, chatbots). There are so many use-cases for Rasa, including personal assistants, FAQ chatbots, customer support bots, and more. …

Tracking time easier than ever with a quick tap on my Apple Watch. — If you just wanna check out the code for this project, click here for the GitHub repo! Feel free to clone it & make it your own. For the past few months, all of my work has been on an hourly basis, either part-time or contract. In the beginning, I…

I had been studying computer science for about 2 years, but beyond my GitHub profile full of half-complete side projects, I had nothing to show for it. I knew I needed to do something, but what? My roommate and I were brainstorming fun projects I could code, and we decided…