A dead simple way to upload your files to AWS S3 using Express and React, also using TypeScript. Uploading files to a S3 bucket via an application is something I had done before in Ruby on Rails, but when I started developing in React, it was somehow hard to find…

About a year ago this journey was starting, I just had a Master’s Thesis to get done in order to get my Master’s Degree. In short, everything started with a couple of discussions with different people to gather some ideas on the topic. After a couple of months and iterations…

This is a short story about my experience of having a sleepless weekend hacking robots in Tokyo. — I’ve been working as a Software Engineer in Helsinki, translating client needs into user-centric and real-time web-based apps using technologies like Angular or React, and nice data visualization in D3. And it is in Helsinki where we have the Junction Hackathon, a massive hacking challenge that happens yearly, in which…

As a software engineer I use Git all the time. Having a clear history of your code and well defined branches leads to a pleasant journey during the development of complex software. But every now and then I forget some commands that I don’t use that often, so I decided…

One of the most frustrating things when I started to develop in Ruby on Rails was to actually see how Windows can be annoying. There are so many issues that I even thought about moving to Mac or Linux (RoR was clearly not the problem). Instead of taking a radical…

I used to be one of that persons to whom you would ask the frightful question “Hey, did you remember to do that thing I had asked you yesterday?” and I would say “Oh shit, sorry, I completely forgot!”, or even worse I could possibly answer “Did you ask me…

Flying shoes or rockets carrying pizza? For the little ones everything is possible! Back when I was 13 years old, a very good friend of mine came to me one day to say he was studying HTML. At that time (almost 20 years ago) I saw his course’s workbook and…