This answer on Reddit helped troubleshoot. I just commented everything, and it made the load lightening fast.

Adding an alias to zshrc file Wanted to add an alias to quickly open Sublime Text editor from the command line.

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 with Postman.

I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs.

Saw this Quick Start guide on Canva's developer portal that walks you through creating a content extension for Canva's users.

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 else found it helpful (or atleast me revisiting this later).

When you work for someone else, the first sentence of your answer to the question - “what do you do?

Collection of tools, scripts, and utilities I have written to simplify my life. It may help you too.

I recently saw a tweet that it's a good idea to have a CTA at the end of each article.

Documenting the steps I followed to apply for OCI recently. Fill out the online application form for OCI on the OCI website.

I had written a bunch of short essays as part of Ship30for30 challenge over the summer.

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 forum.

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 drop it into Otter using their web interface.

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 API: weather forecasts, geolocation services, Twitter feeds, and so on.

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 CLI, like updating the interaction model, and the backend code.

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, basing it off the lessons I’ve managed to learn in the last 9 months being a Developer Evangelist at [Mashery](http://dev.

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 to me.

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 didn't know quite well.

Here's the Apple script that will get the track information from Spotify for the current track.

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 Conversation Applied to Alexa Skills Conversational AI – Amit Jotwani (DevNet Create 2017) IoT NY #32 - Amazon Alexa & Voice as a Service - Amit Jotwani Webinars & Demos Rollback a Skill - Alexa Tech Docs Webinar Build Voice-Enabled Experiences with Amazon Alexa Twitch Streams The Get Down Show, Episode 01: Planning Makes Perfect (Hopefully?

Just setup Ghost on this website (ajot.me). Had been running a home grown version of Flask + Flask-Frozen for a couple years.

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 each week.

Attempting to follow a food recipe on the internet is like playing a game of Minesweeper.

Flipism Side A and Side B No. You don't have to finish that book