I recently read Jim Collin's book "Good to Great" and learned about the hedgehog concept. Learn what that is, and how I created the first version of my statement.

At the beginning of 2021, I started to get into 3d modeling and printing, which lead me to open an Etsy shop. As part of that process, I created a basic logo based of off some images I had seen online.

When building APIs, you'll often want to create and store a collection of endpoints and requests in order to test quickly and effectively. There are a number of tools to help with this, but the one I use most often is Postman.

It's hard to remember how things used to be prior to all the big tech companies. They went from making great products to stealing our information and showering us with adds, so I've started looking for alternatives.

I'm excited to announce that I've recently made some changes to the site that I hope you'll enjoy. I've created some additional newsletters, re-organized the tags, and updated my navigation links

When doing full-stack development, most times you'll be working with a front end client and some sort of API that the client will consume. For web development, this usually isn't a problem since your API runs on one port and the client is on another - everything can still talk.

By now, I think almost everyone is familiar with AI and how companies have been racing to incorporate it into just about everything. I haven't really taken a stance on it one way or another, up to this point.

There are a lot of different methods out there for increasing your productivity and becoming successful. I've tried several of them, but the one that has helped the most is the power list.

For most apps, I tend to use Microsoft SQL or Postgres for data storage and persistence, but occasionally it may also make sense to use a document database. I wanted to see how it was working with Cosmos DB in a .Net application.