Work Progress – Loose Ends Hey all! My work team was in town last week so pardon the radio silence. Who knew commuting was so time-consuming (being totally sarcastic)? I only have a small update this week: I spent some time implementing that sanity check function for my AWS infrastructure last night. The function takes […]
Work Progress – Payment Paradox (Part 2) With those five options in front of us – it’s time to choose a path. For this phase of the application, I’ve chosen to pursue Option 2 – Free Trial. This model serves a few purposes: Exposes users to a full set of features immediately Extremely easy to […]
Work Progress Technical Work I’ve spent the last few days cleaning up some of the authentication flows and bug squashing on both the client and server. On the client, I had a bug that would result in Firebase overwriting the entire user preferences data blob, during a page update. The way the client is built, […]
Work Progress Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been moving into a new house the last two weeks, so startup work had fallen to the wayside while I get myself (and the cat) situated. With that said, I wrapped up the client to server API routing and JWT token verification on the server. Firebase […]
Work Progress Last week went by in a blur – I spent several days sanity checking the systmed tooling I had worked on prior. I forgot that I needed to integrate this with another service I had been writing. Now that the services are complete, integrated, and tested, I can focus on doing some UI […]
Work Progress I’ve just about wrapped up work on the EC2 launch infrastructure. Systemd and the tooling I put together seem to be working well after running a few tests this past weekend! This is a pretty big piece of work to be “done” so I’m excited. My next work items are to work out […]
Work Progress Lately, I’ve been working on assembling a critical piece of EC2 infrastructure that launches an EC2 instance upon request, with a few other tasks like setting up routing, tagging the instance, etc… However, I got a bit tramlined finding a proper way of starting the Node process. At first, I was attempting to […]
Welcome! Happy New Year! As promised, here’s the first chapter of my own startup “story”. In this post, I’ll cover the following: Goals and intent of this blog / newsletter Goals I’ve defined for my startup Historical context of my startup Goals for this blog The main intent of this blog is to create a […]
What’s in a name or a number? Let that question sit with you for a bit. Mull it over like a sip of wine, an ice cold beer, or your favorite non-alcoholic beverage of choice. We’ve been conditioned in society, to associate value with a brand name, the cost of an item, or even […]
I grew up being bullied, picked on because I’m Asian. I was picked on for being fat and unathletic. I went to a private high school where bullying shouldn’t have happened. People said I had anger issues. People in school thought that I would go “postal” because I was angry. This was right after Columbine. Wouldn’t […]