Professional web developer, hobby game developer, conlang enthusiast, and maker of highly specific niche software.
There’s an awful lot of hype and fervor around ChatGPT and other impressive chatbots that reply with very natural-sounding responses being called “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) these days—though people’s interest already seems to be burning out because of its omnipresence. AI programs are a truly impressive creation that have understandably led people to worry about what they’re capable of, but…
toki! mi jan Lapi li kama sona e toki pona! ⬇ “Hi! I’m Robbie, and I’m learning toki pona!”
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About one year ago, give or take a few days, I started development on Readlebee after realizing that there is absolutely no alternative to the Amazon-owned GoodReads that does everything that GoodReads does. GoodReads is a social network for readers, a reading tracker, a wishlist manager for books, a way to stay informed about authors, a place to learn about books (usually by seeing what your…
UPDATE August 12, 2018: Added an Ideas section to the site below Posts, where I will be adding ideas.
My web hosting account expired a couple months, and it would have cost over $120 per year to renew it. This isn’t a terrible price for a full web host, but I really don’t want to spend the money for another shared hosting solution. So I researched how I could host my apps and websites for free using a number of different free services, and I landed on a number of good options.
A few months ago, I posted about the development team we hired at work and how their process was completely incompatible with ours. In October, we cut off their development process and took the code that they had finished on as our own. It took about a week to figure out how it was all put together and how everything worked, but I felt pretty confident that I could work with the test stuites and…
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At the end of last year, we hired a development team to build us a new shopping cart to replace our current one. Our current cart worked fine, but is very slow and was written in Java, and thus was not able to be edited or modified from a source-code level because neither me nor my coworker know Java (and we don’t want to either). The new cart is being written in JavaScript using…
Yesterday, my wife and I closed on our new house. That’s right, it’s official: we have a mortgage! And also a nice house to live in! We have been living in apartments for 5 years, and my new job has finally allowed us to move up to American homeownership. As stressful as having a mortgage is, it is truly delightful to have a place to call our own! We even have a yard for the dogs to play in, plus…