Entries from 2018-05-01 to 1 month

Post-FanimeCon Review

Kudos to the team for a painless pre-registration badge pickup. The line was short, the process is quick with plenty of check-in terminals, the check-in process is nearly painless on the computer Video room could use staff improvement: Roo…

LinkedIn Update - Discovery Blog

LinkedIn is an advertising tool of your brand. Showcasing your personal branding. A few things include who you are, why you do what you do, and why someone should contact/hire you Make it EASY for anyone to understand your brand Finally, y…

Project Fukui - Progress Tracker

While on a short break, I started on the development work of laying out the basic structure of Project Fukui in vanilla HTML/CSS. Some target goals for this project, in design and development: Must be accessible to mobile users (over 60% o…

Houston Texas - Observation

Hot and humid in the mornings, but windy on some days Lyft is available in and around Houston now Downtown Houston is dead at night during weekdays, with only a few fancy restaurants and bars left open I was intimidated by two patrol perso…

Platform For All? Can Platform Favor Both Advertisers AND Content Creators?

After viewing a YouTube video on the plight of video sharing sharing as whole, it gave me some thoughts as I am working on my own platform. Though the topic of the video specifically focused on YouTube and all current/future video-sharing …

Weekend Project - Connecting Pantheon with Lando/Docker

For project Fukui which is a WordPress template project, I am trying out something new. Unlike project Aomori, which uses Kalabox along with Docker and Pantheon, I am giving Lando a test-drive. Lando is in beta which seeks to replace of Ka…

Onsite Assessment - Afterthoughts

Some rant I have after completing a 10-hour onsite assessment (test), which involved building a static Website based on a mock from Zapier with HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, and then move parts of the CSS and HTML code into React components. Here is…

Extra - What's With The Project Names?

So... What's with the project names? Project Akita - 秋田 (WordPress theme in PHP/Timber/SASS/JavaScript)Project Chiba - 千葉 (React app with React-native, Webpack) Project Ehime - 愛媛 (React-native iOS/Android app pairing with Project Ch…

Handoff to Developer - Zeplin/Sketch

For a recent onsite assessment, the creative agency have a specific workflow that I am not familiar with as senior developer, which makes translating design mocks coming from designers into code for developer to build into various language…

Node - Importance of Salt-Hash User Passwords

Here is a related article on its importance and implementation in Node: ciphertrick.com Now Printing.

Reference External Resources With Relative Path In Angular

Tonight, I've decided to revisit a prototype project I had built for a non-profit organization in San Jose. It was written in Angular 5 in TypeScript with ngx-charts. After I ran build in the project folder and placed the dist folder into …

Project Aomori - Back From Hiatus

Looks like both project Ehime and Chiba are in a good place in terms of React and React-redux scaffling, it's finally time to move both projects out of Firebase and into a middleware plus backend, and pairing of a scalable database solutio…