Getting paid as a freelancer

There are a few different ways that you can get paid as a freelancer. There is more work than there are workers.

Improving Portfolio

Portfolios are important and work on them never ends. I will be adding case studies. Maybe.

Task Management Strategy

One thing is certain for me: keeping all the tasks in my head does not work long-term.

Nodejs: Accept arguments from cli

How to read input from the console? How to read input arguments provided by a user in the command line?

Walking Away

Writing things down and creating smallest accomplishable tasks appear to aid in escaping this terrible mode.

Coherent Thoughts

Writing things down and creating smallest accomplishable tasks appear to aid in escaping this terrible mode.

On procrastination

Catch myself procrastinating

SEO Checklist

In this article I give you a simple and useful SEO checklist.

Self-publishing a technical book

In this article I go over the steps to self-publish a technical book.

Asciidoc vs. iBooks Author pdf output

In this article I compare pdf output for asciidoc vs. ibooks author.

Simple Bcrypt ExpressJS example

In this article I will show you how to secure passwords in ExpressJS using bcrypt.

How to install Sequelize in ExpressJS app with SQLite

In this article I will show you how to install Sequelize for use in a basic ExpressJS app with SQLite.

What to do before building authentication with ExpressJS app

In this article I will walk through my thought process for building authentication with ExpressJS app

How to install TailwindCSS in ExpressJS app

In this article I will show you how to install TailwindCSS for use in a basic ExpressJS app

Ruby on rails vs change

Ruby on rails vs change

Five years of ruby on rails

Five years of ruby on rails

Keeping up with keeping up

Keeping up with keeping up

Updates

Some updates since last post on December 2018

Setup custom fastmail email account for your business domain

How to quickly setup professional email for your business domain using fastmail.

Binary trees

Position vs index

Have you ever wondered why you sometimes see index and sometimes position? I did.

Stacks October 25 2018

See how natural the transition from a stack to a queue is when you connect things?

October 20 2018

October 19 2018

October 18 2018

Untitled

Fixing your weakness

And then everything clicked in for me — I figured out how I got confused around series and sequences.

Past few days

You can probably skip reading this entry =)

Ceaser cipher and other things

Today, I was browing again in the textbook and for some reason I wanted to implement a simple Ceaser cipher.

Insertion Sort

Relationships between sets, series, progressions, and sequences

We have looked at a set, a sequence, and a progression so far. How do these things relate to a series?

Trying out Aho–Corasick algorithm

This solution brought me closer to what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it.

If you don't share your project, did you actually make it?

When enough candidates know these basics, easy to get into a pattern of asking questions with them.

Easy to get into a pattern of asking questions

When enough candidates know these basics, easy to get into a pattern of asking questions with them.

Swift package manager and links

Instead of spending time on programming challenging grinding for the interviews, I wanted to study swift package manager (SPM)

Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable?

Why am I going back to doing this? I boarded this social media train, in the early 2000s, just like everyone else.

October 2018 Challenge

See you tomorrow.

On Discrete Mathematics For Computer Science

If you found math challenging or confusing I encourage you not to give up. You can study it on your own.

More frequent updates

So, I think I am doing OK even if it doesn't feel like that.

I have to come clean about my project

I have something to tell you...

Would you let your mother use your software?

Sorry for the clickbait title — but how else am I going to get you to read about software ethics?

How to make perfect iOS screenshots with a clean status bar in 2018

Using fastlane.tools and SimulatorStatusMagic

Improving iOS performance with Xcode and Instruments for dummies

Don't know where to start? Try this

How to call Javascript debugger from Xcode? Can you?

In a previous release of ⭐️ Daily Vibes for iOS, 1.3.0, I added a natural language date parser.

January and February Reflections

I wanted to look back on the amount of work that done in the past two months (January 2018 and February 2018) in iOS indie mobile app development

Ready to Submit

Happy Friday 👋

Getting familiar with iOS testing

Another CoreData Day

So, today, I decided to implement the Sharing extension. Oh boy, did I not expect to lose all of the data but it was necessary. It turns out that if you want to, at a time in the future, to add things to your app, well then you may be in for some effort.

Apple TestFlight Registration Notes

2018 Goals: More Regular Writings

Installing Yosemite on E8400

First and foremost… I like experimenting with different OS environment just so I stay familiar. Besides having Windows, CentOS, and Ubuntu running on my computer, I decided to give OS X another try.

A different archival strategy for pictures on CentOS 7

I decided to learn about bash scripting in order to encrypt all of my pictures and movies before uploading them. More specifically, I wanted individual encryption and not an encryption of an entire archive of pictures and movies.

Installing Mono on CentOS 7

Obtain necessary gpg keys

mkdir Mono
cd Mono
wget http://download.mono-project.com/repo/xamarin.gpg

Configuring SSH Server on CentOS 7

Display all install packages in CentOS

rpm -qa

Using wget in CentOS 6.5

Using wget in CentOS 6.5

Installing XChat CentOS 6.5 for Beginners

Installing XChat for Total Beginners

Configuring PrivateInternetAccess VPN

#Installing OpenVPN and Configuring for PrivateInternetAccess# Go to /etc/