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3 days ago

Twilio Conversations client resilient setup

With Twilio Conversations SDK 2.0 release there is a new way of creating the client and setting up the event handlers. As stated in the documentation and contrary to previous versions, when the client is created in order to guarantee it has been properly initialized we must wait for the…

Java Script

2 min read

Aug 1

What is a Convertible Loan?

Introduction Going from being an employee my whole professional career to cofounding TheGoodPsy in 2020 meant transitioning from focusing solely on the responsibilities directly pegged to my software engineering role to a whole slew of business concepts I needed to get acquainted with. …

Startup

4 min read

Jun 30

Show Google Calendar events in Fullcalendar with React

For convenience, Psychologists in TheGoodPsy are able to connect to their Google Calendar to see their events along with the appointments local to the platform in order to prevent clashes between the two. …

Java Script

4 min read

Jun 15

Send emails asynchronously with Sendgrid and node.js, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda

Recently in TheGoodPsy we experienced an uptick in the number of signups & concurrent users. …

Java Script

4 min read

Send emails asynchronously with Sendgrid and node.js, AWS SQS, AWS Lambda

May 7

Startup Nugget #5: Document Everything

Over the course of TheGoodPsy’s life, there have been countless changes. In order to verify assumptions, we’ve tried different marketing strategies, UI changes, user flow tweaks, and anything to verify what works and what doesn’t when it comes to user acquisition and retention. We started out using a simple WordPress…

Startup

3 min read

Apr 27

Basic memoization in Javascript

A basic user flow in TheGoodPsy is to allow patients to book appointments directly from the chat. In order to do so, we have a Calendar component inside the application that wraps a FullCalendar component and extends its functionality with our custom logic. We mainly use the day view where…

Java Script

2 min read

Apr 18

Startup Nugget #1: multiple responsibilities

As a developer, your work is structured, at least most of the time. A regular working day used to start by arriving at the office (remember?), getting your coffee, checking some emails, doing your daily standup where you get a grasp of what’s going on for everyone during that day…

Startup

3 min read

Aug 6, 2021

Async me gusta, async exception handling in express.js

How do you handle exceptions in express.js? If you’re anything like me, you start coding your application with your best intentions and favor readability, simplicity, and separation of concerns. At the beginning I tend to split the app with a MVC structure featuring routes, middleware, controllers and I make use…

Java Script

4 min read

Apr 3, 2020

Differences between Dubbel, Tripel & Quadrupel beer

Dubbel? Tripel? Quadrupel? Don’t belgians have enough by having over 1600 different beers to confuse and marvel us? What are those denominations we constantly hear the moment we step foot in this lovely country? There’s a lot of folktales around the specific origin of such terms with not much agreement…

Beer

2 min read

Mar 13, 2020

Adding quotes to tmux status bar

After reading Jezen Thomas’ cool blog post about Showing Weather in Tmux, I tried it in my computer and loved the result after minor tweaks: From that moment it also occurred to me that next to the weather, date and time I would love to have a greeting sentence in…

Tmux

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