“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

~Alan Turing

The Nerd

That above quote brings me West World flashbacks, and as a smooth segue, here below are the technologies I use every day:

Node.js
Node.js

The language and community I thank my career for.

Back-end
Vue.js
Vue.js

This and many web applications I build thanks to this beautifully elegant framework.

Front-end
WebStorm
WebStorm

I swear by this tool and other IntelliJ products.

Tool
AWS
AWS

This site is hosted on S3, Cloudfront, and I often use services such as Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch. I'm still learning EKS.

Back-end
RedHat
RedHat

I manage three RedHat servers every day. Their names are Stimpy, Pinky, and Ren.

Back-end
PHP
PHP

The language that like clay, can build such elegance yet also create things that feel so dirty.

Back-end
WordPress
WordPress

I vascillate between adoring its extensibility and getting calls on which plugin updates caused a server crash.

Back-end
Varnish
Varnish

Bunnies go fast, and so does this. But bunnies can't scalibly handle tens of thousand of concurrent HTTP requests? That's why use this all the time with Hitch.

Infrastructure
React Native
React Native

I have had the joy and pain of working in a hybrid app using React Native. I love it when things that compiled yesterday don't today.

Mobile
Digital Ocean
Digital Ocean

Out of all the cloud solutions, I have been immensely impressed with the cost competitiveness of hosting a droplet on Digital Ocean

Mobile
Jira
Jira

My love for Trello will never fade, but alas that memory will stay dear in my heart, as the next-gen projects really are the next level.

Mobile
Heroku
Heroku

The site sflultimate.com which I run uses Heroku as a means to deploy, and lord does it follow the 12-factor methodology so nicely!

Mobile

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

~Paul Rand