It's already week 2 day 2! Time flies. I've now handled more important webhooks from Plaid. All webhooks are now tossed into the LavinMQ queue I've recently setup. Especially important is the `SYNC_UPDATES_AVAILABLE` webhook that all Plaid apps should listen to. On initial successful item creation (a connection to an institution), we'l...

There is no language-agnostic distributed background job system that’s easy to use. Please, someone build it! The existing products out there that are pretty great: 1. Celery (python) 2. Sidekiq (Ruby) 3. Jobrunr (Java) 4. Quartz (Java) 5. Forget what the C# options are 6. Oban (elixir) 7. Bullmq (nodejs) 8. Faktory (agnostic) but poor...

On my way to applying for unemployment assistance, I discovered that the New York State Department of Labor provides an assistance program for those aiming to start their own business called Self-Employment Assistance Program. SEAP can offer up to 26 weeks of assistance without my need to look for new work. The maximum weekly benefit i...

I embark on a journey to build a financial planning app that’ll actually nudge me the right ways. The key nudge is seeing the time remaining in real-time from fulfilling my goals, primarily retirement and all the little things in life. If I spend or save more, it’ll change my timeline. So far, I have a Flutter app and Scala web server....

I wanted to build all my new projects in OCaml. It’d be a welcomed change from the world of Typescript and Python. I’ve been a novice hanging around the OCaml community for the past few years. The discussions around algebraic effects and promising language features appeal to me. I eagerly daydream that this is the language and ecosyste...

Learn some new concepts in the world of computer science and programming languages by trying these 5 below that’ll take you through algebraic effects, web assembly, pure functional programming (not Haskell), type safety in an actor’s world. OCaml 5.0 Have you ever heard of algebraic effects? Algebraic effects is a researched but yet-to...

A list of interesting technologies, frameworks, languages I come upon over the weekend Encore.dev Frameworks backed by a business appeal to me because it means that the open source project may have a chance to live long and healthily and have the money to innovate. If you are looking for a full go framework, this may be a good choice. ...

TLDR; The tool a startup needs to help it survive its early stages is a single, all-encompassing one that gets the job done without overhead. Maybe because I’m still early in years as a dev, maybe my priorities are wrong, or maybe I’m just me, but I lay awake agonizing on what my future ideal tech stack should be. The tech stack that p...

No I did not lose money. But I still opened the damn email. I wonder how many others would fall for this. Fortunately I have no stake in this blockchain, and opened the email out of curiosity. Am I more cat than rational human? What is hilarious is the string of obvious signs that I still chose to completely miss. The email. Lying to m...