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Creating a Flutter widget Part 1: Should be easy… right?

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  • June 5, 2024
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Astro, is it amazing or just overrated?

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My first weeks in tech X (Twitter). Big disappointment

July 13, 2024

Creating a Flutter widget Part 1: Should be easy… right?

I found a flutter widget that could solve my problem, but it was not exactly what I needed. This little problem became my excuse to start this little project.

Experience 0 3 min read
June 5, 2024

Astro, is it amazing or just overrated?

Over the last year I have heard about this magical framework to build content centered websites called Astro. In youtube many people recommending Astro, I was like is it that good?

Learning 0 2 min read
April 30, 2024

My first weeks in tech X (Twitter). Big disappointment

I have never used Twitter, nor do I had an account. I just used it sometimes to see tweets from personalities that became a hot topic or sometimes as a source from other news sites, but almost never directly.

Experience 0 2 min read
April 23, 2024

Overengineering a simple feature in javascript. Translations made easy

In the current state of the web, it is very rare to see static websites. This is how I wrote a tiny javascript library to translate static sites.

Problem Solving 0 4 min read
April 7, 2024

Unlocking the potential of Ruby on Rails custom generators

In the last weeks I have been using mason to generate some boiler plate code for my personal project, may have to write about it some other time. So the idea of templating was sitting in my head at all times. Then at my job I got assigned a task, a very common task actually, a third party integration. So […]

Learning 0 8 min read
December 5, 2021

How to change the color of a Flutter SpinBox

…covers other scenarios. First using Material State Property, and then using an Inherited Theme to complement this functionality

Learning 0 5 min read
November 25, 2021

How to Manage Large Amounts of Data in Ruby on Rails

I know first hand that ActiveRecord save method is not efficient when working with big chunks of data, but I didn’t know how slow it was.

Learning 0 3 min read
November 18, 2021

My first time contributing to open source software

the open source community piqued my curiosity once again, making me want to learn more about it and start to contribute, but I just didn’t know where to start.

Experience 0 3 min read
November 15, 2021

Why and How I created a personal website

Hi, I am Gerardo. I’m a computer science engineer dedicated to software development and I just created my personal website.

Experience 0 3 min read

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