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26 September 2024

Another job change. I am doing content creation (video, photo, copy), translation and localization engineering. AI really killed the writers' job market, so I have to do many things to survive. I am grateful that ChatGPT-o1 is helping me hustle when real-time data is added to it. I am networking & building solutions again.

19 October 2023

Job change. I no longer work in tech but work as a writer. I still do techie things, but for the most part my money comes from words I produce that generate ad revenue... To be honest, the last 3 years all kind of feel like one long year where not much has happened except lockdown, and escape from lockdown. Nobody, that I know, works downtown anymore. Anyway, if I run into something techie, I'll still post here. If you are reading this, I love you. Thank you.

23 October 2020

I'm still alive, and I hope if you're reading this you are, too. It's been a pretty gnarly year: fires, deaths & long-term illnesses from the pandemic, crashed economies except for anybody that owned stock, and much, much more. I spent 100 days learning machine learning, and hope to use it on a for real work project soon. I'm also ditching Ruby for Elixir because of scalability and cost issues. Why spend $100 a month on a Ruby on Rails website when you can spend $10 running Phoenix "powered" by Elixir? If you are still around, I'd love to hear from you. I'm on Twitter and DMs are open.

8 April 2019

Update on possible YouTube channel. Right now the tech industry has changed so much, and continues to change faster and have demands for more specialization. E.G. there are less full stack jobs, and more jobs that require either a specialization on the front-end or the back-end. Furthermore, the back-end seems to be split into anything that supports machine learning (ML), or a site reliability engineer role (SRE). Right now, I'm just figuring out which should be my focus.

3 September 2018

It's been awhile. So much has changed with Internet technologies in the last 3 years. Right now it's all about React on the front end and either a really capable asynch and concurrent type technology based on Elixir or Node. JavaScript, and one mobile one is the language to know these days, if you want to change the world dramatically with your ideas. I'm going to take you through this journey of Internetting in these strange times.

20 January 2015

It's been awhile. I will be diving into TrAmp again, my traffic amplifier WordPress plug-in.

9 October 2013

I think lol_dba is the best name for a gem ever. lol_dba identifies columns that need to be indexed on your ruby on rails app.

16 January 2012

A Great Summary of What Design Is:

10 January 2012

Codebelay is currently up in San Francisco. There's a bit of a tech boom going on here since 2005 and things have really heated up. Read more about it in one of our blog posts.

16 November 2011

I had one of the co-founders from Demeter Interactive over at my place to talk about Internet technologies.


17 July 2011

Traffic has been phenomenal! Thank you!

Awesome Traffic

Stick around for details, because I would like to thank my readers with a Tweetup / Drinkup.

Got any tips for a breaking tech story? Email me or reply to me on twitter: @barce!


6 June 2011

Selling Retweet packs.

I am currently selling Twitter Retweets in 5 packs. This means that I will Retweet 5 Tweets of yours.

I only sell 20 of these 5 packs per day. Your tweets will be re-tweeted from the @barce account.

Update: No longer selling Retweet packs as of 14 June 2011.


September 20, 2010

Codebelay, LLC is now a proud member of the Venice Chamber of Commerce.


June 2, 2010

Do you need to monitor a website or part of a web page for updates? Try Sitebeagle, a newLISP command-line tool for monitoring.

Update: As of 6/14/2011 Sitebeagle is now Ruby.


February 2, 2010

Do you have an enterprise environment with Active Directory used for authentication? Would you like to use Rails? Try the Frostale gem.


October 22, 2009

Partition Benchmarks project is finished. If you want to quickly test out mysql vs. drizzle this project is for you.


February 22, 2009

Update on 10/23/2020 - I removed the feedburner link.

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