I've been playing around with warp.dev, which is a new terminal app for Mac (Windows coming soon it looks like) with a focus on improving developer …

This answer on Reddit helped troubleshoot. I just commented everything, and it made the load lightening fast. Then, on a closer look, I found this mess. No idea …

Adding an alias to zshrc file Wanted to add an alias to quickly open Sublime Text editor from the command line. Here's how -

Now that I am playing around a bit more frequently with APIs, especially Twitter’s v2 API, and Airtable’s API, I have found myself playing around a lot more …

I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs. I just never got down to using it much. That changed quite a bit in …

Saw this Quick Start guide on Canva's developer portal that walks you through creating a content extension for Canva's users. It uses Node.js and Express.js as …

I recently went throught the process to put my side project howbigisthebaby.io on Digital Ocean's new app platform, and wanted to document it in case anyone …

When you work for someone else, the first sentence of your answer to the question - “what do you do?” (and your Twitter bio) is more or less taken care of. …

Collection of tools, scripts, and utilities I have written to simplify my life. It may help you too. Feel free to have at it, and let me know if you have any …

I recently saw a tweet that it's a good idea to have a CTA at the end of each article. In fact, Daniel Vassallo argued that the CTA should be pointing to …

Documenting the steps I followed to apply for OCI recently. Fill out the online application form for OCI on the OCI website. This has two parts -

I had written a bunch of short essays as part of Ship30for30 challenge over the summer. Now that I was redoing my website, I thought it would be nice if I could …

December 29, 2020 Alright, typing this for the first time in Noteplan 3. I think I accidentally ran into Noteplan 3, when the developer mentioned the app in a …

Podcasts Download the MP3 for the Podcast (most provide them on their websites)Save this file in Dropbox (I have it connected to my Otter account), or manually …

It took me some time. Fine, it took me a few years, but I finally got around to creating my first iOS app, using SwiftUI.

As a developer, every day we interact with remote APIs and web servers. Almost all services we consume on the internet today are available in the form of an …

If you’re into building skills, you’re probably familiar with Alexa Skills Kit’s Command Line Interface, which lets you create and manage your skill using the …

Last week, I was given an opportunity to give a talk at NYC Developer Evangelists Meetup and I chose to talk about what it is like being a Developer Evangelist, …

My wife gifted me six weeks of stand-up comedy classes for my 35th birthday. While I loved watching stand-up, actually doing stand up comedy had never occurred …

We were just about getting ready to warm up for the practice game over the weekend when I had an interesting conversation with one of the team mates I actually …

Here's the Apple script that will get the track information from Spotify for the current track. Once you have this, you just need a way to print the result …

Talks & Presentations How I Used Alexa and Twilio to Wish My Dad Happy Birthday Amazon Echo & Alexa | AWS Summit Tokyo 2016 The Art and Science of …

Just setup Ghost on this website (ajot.me). Had been running a home grown version of Flask + Flask-Frozen for a couple years. It was cool, but I was starting …

We are expecting our first baby soon and like most first-time parents, we signed up for a bunch of pregnancy tracking apps that tell you how big your baby is …

Attempting to follow a food recipe on the internet is like playing a game of Minesweeper. You want to cook Pasta. You’re just looking for ingredients and the …