Introduction to the Actor Model, Using “Real” Actors
When you hear the phrase “Actor Model,” your mind may have gone to Hollywood, but the Actor Model is actually a programming model designed to make performing concurrent operations simpler.
Category Archives: Misc
The Design of You: Maximizing Your Inner Tech
When I ask my Grio teammates, “where do you live,” they all give slightly different answers. Some will say “San Francisco” while others say “the Bay Area.” Some say “the United States” while others say “Mexico.” While our answers may all be different, we do have one thing in common: There is only one place we will each live for the rest of our lives. That place is our bodies.
In this blog, I’ll discuss how our modern lifestyles impact our “inner tech” and look at some of the physical and ergonomic solutions we have to keep our bodies in tip-top shape.
Next.js 10 Updates and the Pros and Cons of the Virtual Conference Experience
The first Next.js conference was held in October 2020 and due to the coronavirus pandemic, the conference was held virtually. Instead of hotel conference rooms and banquet halls, I attended the conference from the comfort of my home. Like many who attended a conference this year, this was my first experience with an online conference. In this post, I will be talking about both the highlights of the conference itself, as well as the experience of attending a virtual conference in general.
Hacking the Brain: Learning How to Learn in Adulthood
It can be overwhelming to learn a new skill, especially as you reach adulthood. If you want to start a new career, learn a new hobby, play an instrument, or try a new activity, it requires your brain to learn an entirely new way of thinking. In this post, I will explore some ways you can “hack” your brain, helping your old brain learn some new tricks.
Improving UI Development with Flutter
The Wood Wide Web
I am a big fan of metaphors. I believe that there are a lot of complex ideas, in fields like biology, technology, and literature, that are hard to communicate without using metaphors to describe them. Today, I am going to be using an ecological phenomenon I recently learned about, the mycorrhizal network, to look at the complex connections that we create, and to analyze how we, as individuals, relate to the world around us.
Wordit: The Development of My First Progressive Web Application
I recently built a word game as a side project. I wanted to create an app that I could install on as many devices as possible (iOS, Android, desktop, etc.) with only a single code base. Therefore, I decided to use a progressive web app (PWA) as the basis for my game.
Ayuda.la: My Personal Protection Project
Here in Mexico, we have recently experienced a serious rise in personal security issues. People have been kidnapped in their taxis and rideshares, or have increasingly found themselves in situations where they feel unsafe on the street. I wanted to do something to help so I created Ayuda.la, a mobile app designed to help people when they find themselves in dangerous situations.
Will Deepfakes Destabilize Democracy?
For the last couple years, I have periodically heard the term “deepfake videos”, but prior to completing the research for this post, I didn’t know much about them. In fact, my knowledge of deepfake videos was limited to a few key facts that I’d heard repeated on the news and the internet: the average person can’t tell the difference between a real video and a deepfake video, anyone with a computer can make one, they will soon be everywhere, and they will definitely destabilize democracy.
Discovering Nginx: A Developer’s Guide to Maximizing Your Web Server Potential
Nginx is something that most software developers have used at some point in their careers. However, there is a difference between working with Nginx and really understanding it. Nginx offers many advanced features that most people are not aware of and, therefore, not utilizing.
In this post, I’ll go over some of the unique features that Nginx offers and how they can help you take your web application to the next level.