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  • Updated Blog and First Saga!

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    Since Saturday, I've been working on SEO features such as automated generation of sitemap and bringing the public side of this blog up with React Server Side Rendering. One feature I always thought would be cool was bundling a series of posts. At first, I wanted to call it "STORIES" then "LEGENDS, but no SAGAS sounded the best!


    A SAGA is a bundle of blog posts. A post can be associated with any SAGA, so if I want to bring certain posts back from the dead then boom associate with a new SAGA. SAGAS have their ...

  • Importance of Eating Right

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    I decided to eat cereal (Raisin Bran and Cheerios) with rice milk and the occasional homemade spaghetti with homemade sauce or homemade rice. Never thought about the amount of calories I was ingesting as I was only thinking about the weight loss that should occur. Haha, no it never happened. My weight is basically the same since then. I felt more tired and way more irritated during that time around January up to the second week of February, where I finally starting buying food again to replenish my lost cal...

  • New Blog, New Day

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    I recently got out of my day to day job and instantly started to work with some of the technologies I discovered and worked with at work. Tons of new libraries, frameworks and software that I discovered during my adventures.


    To name a few, React and Aurelia are both frontend frameworks. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses. React is functional while Aurelia isn't and uses dirty checking to do updates to the view. 


    My preference is in dirty checking, which comes with a con such as not being able to observe o...

  • Going to be moving this blog over to custom blog

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    That I wrote in nodejs, so no more PHP or Wordpress. Pet project of course.

    DigitalOcean upgraded all (majority?) of their specs and I took advantage of double the memory.

  • Shallow Critique of Mozilla Talk and Online Commenting

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    A topic I have cared enough about to think about pretty intensely is the commenting landscape on websites. Sadly I have not executed on my own commenting system yet even though I have ideas and partial UI code. Anyway, Mozilla's Talk (collab project: The Coral Project) is interesting, but not in the way that I was looking towards.

    Talk is open source and install-able by anyone on their own servers and at their leisure. They have tech docs (very little, but looks to the point). Well anyway, since I have not i...

  • Online Dating

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    (First off, I am not proposing a solution, just what I think about the current solutions so far and what I think the ideal solution is. In another post, I can think about how to define a solution with a better user experience.)

    I've been thinking about the whole idea of online dating and how it should work. Personally, for me it requires too much effort to put in and I think the point of technology is to make the things in my life effortless. No one uses technology to make their life harder right?

    Let's set s...

  • So uhh... Google

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    Looks like an interesting company from the outside and I'm sure it is on the inside too. I like Google Maps, GMail, Search, Android and others. These software collect data and act on the data, which is fine with me as long as it makes the software useful. Is it a problem that I like a number of products created by one company? Is it concerning to me at all?

    Not much if decisions are made with good intent and good reasons. From time to time, mistakes will be made and those usually result in public outcry and/...