To be honest, I have no idea why this is not inbuilt in Firebase, or even documented in the Firebase. But if you’re ever developing a Firebase app with hot reloading — every time you save — your code will try to re-initialize Firebase again, resulting in the following error; …

TL;DR — Find Lila here. Using GPT-3 Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an OpenAI language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It’s currently licensed exclusively to Microsoft (for a whopping $1 billion bucks), but you can apply to try out its beta here. As it’s a pre-trained model…

In my recent side project, Lila, I wanted a simple way to increment a “Like” counter for the quotes on the site. As I am using Supabase — The Open Source Firebase Alternative for my backend database, I thought perhaps there’s an increment function within the APIs. I really don’t…

I keep hearing friends and family talk about how scarily smart the Covid-19 virus is. That it attempts to mutate itself to become more resilient, more contagious, and even more deadly. Yes, some variants have mutated more than 6,600 times and counting. …

jQuery used to be the defacto plugin I’ll add to my projects, but most of the time I end up using it to simply select elements on my page or adding clicks and mouseovers. It seems like an awful waste to add an entire library just for those reasons alone. …

Note: Chapter 7–12 to be updated… Chapter 1 — The Art Of Starting Up Answer simple questions. Therefore, what? When you spot or predict a trend, what are its consequences? Isn’t this interesting? Discovery through curiosity. Break things. Is there a better way? This sucks. Can I make it better? Why doesn’t our company do this? Red tapes and…

I’m in the midst of creating my self-hosted blog and decided to go with Gridsome! I chose it mainly because it’s using VueJS and a static site generator — which are the two main criteria I’m looking for. And also partly because it has an awesome looking site.

For my last few side projects, I’ve been using ParcelJS to develop and bundle them up for launch. It’s really an awesome no-config setup. I don’t have to think about the complicated settings and steps that Webpack or Grunt needs. Just create a new project, use whatever I need, and…

I’ve been getting the warning in Mac’s terminal for months now, telling me that the default shell is no longer bash, nagging me to switch to zsh. I tried to ignore it for as long as possible because I’m afraid it will break or change things too much but I…