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Dec 3, 2020

Tech Friend: tips on how to build an app with Firebase, React and Three.js

Immediately after graduating from Flatiron School, I started working on a new project: Tech Friend. I was eager to learn and implement Firebase with React, as well as Three.js with React Three Fiber. I finally did it! Here it is: https://techfriend.dev Tech Friend is a web app where people can…

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Tech Friend: tips on how to built an app with Firebase, React and Three.js
Tech Friend: tips on how to built an app with Firebase, React and Three.js

5 min read


Nov 29, 2020

HTML5 Ads in Adobe Animate: a story.

I remember the feeling. It was a feeling of surprise. It was 2005, I was 10 years old and my mother had signed me up for an Adobe Flash course. …

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HTML5 Ads in Adobe Animate: a story.
HTML5 Ads in Adobe Animate: a story.

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Nov 21, 2020

Becoming an Email Developer

“You’d do something different everyday,” said the Director of Enterprise Services during our interview last week. I was glad to hear that, working on diverse projects as a full stack developer is exactly what I want to do for the rest of my career. “Some of those things,” he continued…

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Becoming an Email Developer
Becoming an Email Developer

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Nov 14, 2020

Why I’m learning HubSpot CMS as a Developer

The reason why I decided to become a Web Developer is because I wanted to build digital things in collaboration with a creative team of people. There is no better place to do this than in a marketing agency. As a web developer at a marketing agency, you’d be bumping…

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Why I’m learning HubSpot CMS as a Developer
Why I’m learning HubSpot CMS as a Developer

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Nov 2, 2020

String to Object in JavaScript

Programming languages are languages hybridized with math. Take JavaScript, for example. All you want to say and do with JavaScript, you have to do it using objects and arrays. I never liked math when I was in high school. I was good at it, but it was never my thing…

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String to Object in JavaScript
String to Object in JavaScript

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Aug 13, 2020

React and the Order of the UI Frameworks

So here we are, on August of 2020, the world is in the middle of a cruel Covid-19 scarred summer, and I’m learning React and loving it. Just like everybody else, I had to cancelled my plans until 2021. Instead, I enrolled in Flatiron School’s immersive Software Engineering course. For…

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React and the Order of the UI Frameworks
React and the Order of the UI Frameworks

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Aug 6, 2020

The City in Which I Code You

It was a queer, sultry spring, the spring they declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and I didn’t know what I was doing in Houston, Texas. I first visited the H-Town on the summer of 2015, during a road trip my brother and I did across the Southern States. A friend lived…

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The City in Which I Code You
The City in Which I Code You

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Jul 28, 2020

The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs (Again!)

When Marty McFly walks to the Hill Vally Courthouse Square, on October 21, 2015, one of the first things he sees is a Texaco gas station. Marty is shocked by this gas station, because it sits on a second story, above a 7-Eleven. Flying cars land on the upper deck…

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The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs (Again!):
The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs (Again!):

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Jul 12, 2020

Code for Venezuela

On December 6th, 1998, Hugo Chavez became the president of Venezuela. Chavez was a liar who promised access to free healthcare, education, housing and food, but never delivered any of them. He nationalized most industries (by which I mean he gave the military control of them), suppressed the press, manipulated…

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Code for Venezuela
Code for Venezuela

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Jun 24, 2020

The Poetry of Ruby (Or How an Artsy-Gay-Venezuelan Boy Ended Up Becoming a Coder)

My dad is a business man and he wanted me to be one. My dream, however, was to become a poet and win a Nobel Prize in Literature (“was” because it no longer “is”. What is my dream now days? Not getting COVID-19? World peace? …

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The Poetry of Ruby (Or How an Artsy-Gay-Venezuelan Boy Ended Up Becoming a Coder)
The Poetry of Ruby (Or How an Artsy-Gay-Venezuelan Boy Ended Up Becoming a Coder)

6 min read

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