The Mensa App is live and fully functional! After a six-week sprint, this lightweight networking platform is now in the hands of a small group of Mensa members across several […]
Kicking Off the Mensa Networking App: Choosing a Stack That Actually Makes Sense
When the Mensa networking app landed in my lap, the first thing I had to do was pick the stack. And honestly, none of this came from hype or “developer […]
Production Readiness Features
When getting ready for a final move to production, there are a few things one needs to review: performance and monitoring. This brought out the last few items that I […]
Docker
Getting Docker set up for my project was a HUGE step for me. I’ve never played with docker before, yet it has shown up in at least two separate interview […]
React User Authentication
This month has been crazy learning about a TON of new and different “user security” topics. It was very overwhelming at times. Here are all of the different aspects of […]
React Fundamentals in Django Job Hunt App
Long ago, while I was at CalPERS, I got to explore some with React. I went through two minor tutorials, just to then be exposed to an employee’s implementation of […]
Laravel and React
Laravel is not new to me, despite my resume possibly suggesting that. I wrote a CMS app using the Laravel Blade architecture back in 2016. At the time, I wasn’t […]