Migrating Pereira Tech Talks: From Ghost to Astro
Migrating pereiratechtalks.org from Dockerized Ghost to static Astro on GitHub Pages — ten years of lessons packed into two weeks of code.
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Astro in Action
Why Astro won me over — Microsoft and Firebase cases, measurable gains, and a live Pereira Tech Talks migration to prove it is not hype.
How We Got Into Y Combinator
Three YC applications, three rejections, one acceptance — what changed each time, the real interview, and scaling DailyBot after YC.
Looking for Product Market Fit
Building and failing products at Rocka.co — lessons from each experiment, reading real PMF signals, and how DailyBot finally stuck.
Building kathelopez.com: The Website I Built for My Wife
A simple static site for my wife, an ABA therapist and neuropsychologist: Bootstrap, GitHub Pages, zero backend, professional presence online.
Building the XergioAleX Brand: The Ninja Coder Identity
The story behind the XergioAleX ninja coder brand — from concept to execution. Logo symbolism, color palette, design variants, and a complete style guide.
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CSS Grid Layout
How CSS Grid changed the way I think about layouts — from Flexbox limitations to two-dimensional freedom, with practical exercises and accessibility tricks.
Vue Vixens Talk: Styles in Vue
Why styling matters in component-based frameworks and how Vue makes CSS scoped, modular, and powerful. From preprocessors to component architecture.
Building Virtual Reality for the Web: A-Frame, Mazes, and 360° Galleries
How I built WebVR with HTML and JavaScript: a VR maze, a 360° gallery, and 20+ demos proving browser VR doesn't need expensive hardware.
WebVR with A-Frame (UniRemington Talk)
Bringing virtual reality to the web and why democratizing VR matters. From 360° photos to interactive 3D worlds, all with HTML and JavaScript.
Yo Me Llamo Héctor Lavoe: Building a Personal Website for a Salsa Artist
Website for a Yo Me Llamo contestant as Héctor Lavoe: audio player, gallery, and a jPlayer Safari fix that took an afternoon over three pixels.
Introduction to Webpack
How Webpack transformed front-end development—my talk on entry points, loaders, plugins, and why developer experience beats configuration complexity.
Building Rocka.co: The Story Behind a Tech Venture Builder Website
How we built Rocka.co—from statue metaphors and parallax to a CSS Design Awards Special Kudos—for the incubator where DailyBot was born.
BSolutions: Managing Multiple Database Engines with Django and Docker
Advanced Databases class project: Django talking to ten SQL and NoSQL engines via Docker—multi-database ops and microservices architecture in practice.
History, Discussion, and Analysis of the Bitcoin Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto
A deep dive into Satoshi's Bitcoin whitepaper—what makes it revolutionary, the technical ideas that stuck with me, and why it changed finance.
Introduction to APIs with GraphQL
Why GraphQL changed how I build APIs: strong typing, client-driven queries, one endpoint, and an experience that makes REST feel outdated.
Introduction to Vue.js
Why Vue became my favorite framework after years of Angular and React — a deep dive into progressive design, reactivity, and what makes Vue special.
Taming Big Data: An Introduction to Apache Spark
From RDDs to streaming: notebooks, a Docker cluster, and a presentation teaching Apache Spark for my university Big Data final project.
Learning Webpack: The Exercises That Changed How I Build for the Web
Hands-on Webpack 4: loaders, preprocessors, code splitting, DLL optimization, React integration, and backend bundling—how practice demystified the bundler.
