I could really use that packing spell from Harry Potter right about now 😅

It's been a hot minute since I've last posted on here😅 I'm ngl, it was super nice to be inactive on social media, but I saw this challenge and figured this would be a good chance to get back to posting. Slow and steady wins the race 😁 #FM30Hackathon #buildinpublic #hackathon

Korean fried chicken is always delicious 😋 Also got to treat myself to some yummy korean hot dogs~

Nature walk with mom ☺️❤️

Nothing more refreshing than deep cleaning the bathroom 😆

My first karaoke marathon, and my voice definitely is feeling the effects already 😅 Had a Uno and Exploding Kittens intermission as well as some eats 😋

The finale to Richard’s outdoor adventure~ I wish I had the oura ring to track how many calories I lost and how many miles I walked😅 I really got my steps in today and more 😆

Richard’s outdoor adventure takes a studious(?) turn 🤓

Richard outdoor adventure continues ft a lot of touching grass 😆

Richard’s outdoor spontaneous adventure part 1

Always a good time spending quality time with loved ones 🥰 Also decided to treat myself once I saw a store with all these cute Hatsune Miku merch 😁 RIP my wallet 😅

Gotta say it's a lot harder to get back into social media after taking a break from it than I thought it would be 😅 But it's made me realize how consistently active I was. Also wondering how I managed to do all those coffee chats and meetups lol where did I get all that energy😆

Made more UI updates on the AutoAligners Reservation page, I feel like it's definitely gotten better, but could still be improved dramatically on many departments 😅 But for now I'm moving on to working on a different feature 😁 #buildinpublic #UI

Touching some grass before I code all day 😆

74/75 I don’t think I’m finishing this in one day tbh 😅 #75DaysOfHobbies

Fixed the bug, and it turns out I had to create a reg file and create code to manually add the options to my computers registry. I'm not sure why installing Visual Code Editor and selecting the checkbox options for "Open With Code" didn't work though 😅

Ran into an interesting bug today (Feel like a bug collector finding all these bugs 🐞) My Open With Visual Studio option wouldn't show even after uninstalling and reinstalling it. I even tried factory reseting my computer, but to no avail 😅 #buildinpublic

73/75 I wanna work on how my final digital outlines turn out, but for now I'm glad with how it turned out ☺️ #75DaysOfHobbies

Used v0 to help me get some ideas for improving the AutoAligners Reservation UI, and I definitely prefer this over my previous version already 😅 But I wanna add a background color or horizontal line to each "sub-section" to visually separate them better 😁 #buildinpublic

Still trying to find the balance between job hunting, building, and learning while staying healthy and making sure I give myself breaks and taking care of myself 🫠 But at the end of the day I'm having fun and enjoying life and the small moments☺️ #WorkLifeBalance

Yesterday was an amazing day - lots of yummy food, sightseeing and walking, movies and shows, and wonderful company 🤗

Trying to find and think of a way to find the best layout for all these inputs that would look good in my AutoAligners site while also considering the best user experience when using the product in terms of the user flow #buildinpublic #UserExperience 🤔

72/75 #75DaysOfHobbies

71/75 4 days left, can I finish the drawing in 4 days 😅 #75DaysOfHobbies

I have to fight the urge to go back and clean up all my code since I only know it's going to delay deploying AutoAligners by a lot😅 Reminding myself I wanna deploy the MVP so I can finally move on lol But ngl, the desire to clean up my code is strong 😆 #buildinpublic #techdebt

I'm honestly not happy with how the AutoAligners calendar UI looks right now, but I do like how I'm rendering the available dates and available time slots compared to how I was rendering them previously 😁 The 1st is the current, the 2nd is the previous version. #buildinpublic

70/75 #75DaysOfHobbies

69/75 And got the coloring done too ^^ (and even got some shading in) #75DaysOfHobbies

Reworked the Auto Aligners calendar feature and it kinda reminded me of a frontendeval challenge ngl lol I probably could have done some research and found a third party library to handle rendering a customizable calendar, but I wanted the challenge 🔥 #buildinpublic

Successfully set up the next.js open source repo locally, but I hope I set it up correctly cause the build is failing 😅 Followed the developing docs to the T so I think this is what I should be seeing 😆 I lost count the amount of things I installed XD #opensource #buildinpublic

68/75 And inking is done~ #75DaysOfHobbies

While working on AutoAligners, a component was suspending with react-router-dom Link redirects. I fixed it with React.Suspense, but got curious and made a control repo, but couldn’t reproduce it no matter what I did. Turns out I just needed to update my react-router-dom dependencies🤦‍♂️

Day 2 of contributing to open-source, and took a bit of a leap into the AI world and opened a PR for the @anthropic.com Typescript SDK repo🔥 Ran into some setup trouble with the yarn install and build commands though 😅 #OpenSource #AI

Watching @leaht.codes online as she absolutely crushes it talking about Making it Feel Right: Implementing UI Details that Connect at #laracon2025 💪Can't believe last year Laracon US was her very first tech conference, and now she's speaking this year!! 🙌

Thanks @amandamartin.bsky.social, Chauntay, Michael & the @apollographql.com team for a great MCP builders meetup in NYC! Big ups to the other speakers & everyone who chatted with me after my talk. Glad it resonated. Also, thanks for the swag Apollo! lu.ma/home?e=evt-j... #mcp #agenticai #zerotrust

Watching @amandamartin.bsky.social demo @apollographql.com MCP server and getting events with speaking sessions at @apollographql.com’s MCP Server Builder Series

Listening to Hermes Frangoudis talk about Agura’s voice to voice and demo its conversational AI Engine MCP @apollographql.com MCP Server Builder Series

Watching Michael Browning demo MCP devops servers with the following workflows at @apollographql.com MCP Server Builder Series - Github actions - DO Scaling - NixOS System

. @nickyt.online talking about Zero Trust & why it should be considered for MCPs - Zero trust assumes no implicit trust - Zero trust gives you access control before the request reaches the server @apollographql.com MCP Server Builder Series

Anthony Giuliano talking about the layers of the Surface MCP: Discovery, Planning, and Execution. Discovery: Discovers what operations are available Planning: What are the requirements Execution: Execute the API call @apollographql.com MCP Server Builder Series

Chatting it up @apollographql.com MCP Server Builder Series event with lovely folks 😁

Tried to setup another open source project, but came across some issues due to being a windows user 😭 And while I tried my best to fix them, couldn't get it to work so gonna try again tomorrow 😅 So I switched course and finished reworking my AutoAligners login page 🔥

To avoid prop-drilling, I used useContext to make the data available in every level of the app's component tree, but I wonder if using state store would've been more efficient 🤔 While the app is small in scale now, I feel like state store would better for scaling #buildinpublic

67/75 Another new one 😎 #75DaysOfHobbies

66/75 Had fun experimenting around with this one~ #75DaysOfHobbies

On a bit of a coding streak today and submitted a PR to an open source project 😁 It was a small fix, but easing my way into more contributions in the potential future~ #buildinpublic #OpenSource

Had a lovely time catching up with Hazal Mestci after meeting them at DevRelCon and more and getting some really good advice and feedback on the job hunt as we laughed and connected 😇 Grateful I got the chance to chat with her, looking forward to chatting with her again~

1/3 🧵 I know I've been all over the place in terms of building coding projects, but I wanted to go back to AutoAligners and actually finish it (let's see if I actually pull through this time around 😅) #buildinpublic

65/75 Worked on shadowing and experimented with blur #75DaysOfHobbies

64/75 Color and outline is done~ #75DaysOfHobbies