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Astro and Svelte portfolio site for Sebastián Martínez Vanegas, Colombian poet and winner of the Emilio Prados International Poetry Prize.
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Building sergioykathe.com: The Wedding Website I Built for Our Special Day
A fully static wedding invitation site built with Astro, Svelte, and GitHub Pages — unique codes, RSVP via Google Forms, zero backend.
Migrating Pereira Tech Talks: From Ghost to Astro
Migrating pereiratechtalks.org from Dockerized Ghost to static Astro on GitHub Pages — ten years of lessons packed into two weeks of code.
Astro in Action
Why Astro won me over — Microsoft and Firebase cases, measurable gains, and a live Pereira Tech Talks migration to prove it is not hype.
How We Got Into Y Combinator
Three YC applications, three rejections, one acceptance — what changed each time, the real interview, and scaling DailyBot after YC.
Looking for Product Market Fit
Building and failing products at Rocka.co — lessons from each experiment, reading real PMF signals, and how DailyBot finally stuck.
Building kathelopez.com: The Website I Built for My Wife
A simple static site for my wife, an ABA therapist and neuropsychologist: Bootstrap, GitHub Pages, zero backend, professional presence online.
CSS Grid Layout
How CSS Grid changed the way I think about layouts — from Flexbox limitations to two-dimensional freedom, with practical exercises and accessibility tricks.
Vue Vixens Talk: Styles in Vue
Why styling matters in component-based frameworks and how Vue makes CSS scoped, modular, and powerful. From preprocessors to component architecture.
Building Virtual Reality for the Web: A-Frame, Mazes, and 360° Galleries
How I built WebVR with HTML and JavaScript: a VR maze, a 360° gallery, and 20+ demos proving browser VR doesn't need expensive hardware.
WebVR with A-Frame (UniRemington Talk)
Bringing virtual reality to the web and why democratizing VR matters. From 360° photos to interactive 3D worlds, all with HTML and JavaScript.
Introduction to Webpack
How Webpack transformed front-end development—my talk on entry points, loaders, plugins, and why developer experience beats configuration complexity.
Building Rocka.co: The Story Behind a Tech Venture Builder Website
How we built Rocka.co—from statue metaphors and parallax to a CSS Design Awards Special Kudos—for the incubator where DailyBot was born.
BSolutions: Managing Multiple Database Engines with Django and Docker
Advanced Databases class project: Django talking to ten SQL and NoSQL engines via Docker—multi-database ops and microservices architecture in practice.
History, Discussion, and Analysis of the Bitcoin Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto
A deep dive into Satoshi's Bitcoin whitepaper—what makes it revolutionary, the technical ideas that stuck with me, and why it changed finance.
Introduction to APIs with GraphQL
Why GraphQL changed how I build APIs: strong typing, client-driven queries, one endpoint, and an experience that makes REST feel outdated.
Introduction to Vue.js
Why Vue became my favorite framework after years of Angular and React — a deep dive into progressive design, reactivity, and what makes Vue special.
Taming Big Data: An Introduction to Apache Spark
From RDDs to streaming: notebooks, a Docker cluster, and a presentation teaching Apache Spark for my university Big Data final project.
Learning Webpack: The Exercises That Changed How I Build for the Web
Hands-on Webpack 4: loaders, preprocessors, code splitting, DLL optimization, React integration, and backend bundling—how practice demystified the bundler.
What is Blockchain and How Is It Radically Transforming the Economy and Industry?
From Bitcoin's origins to industrial revolution — exploring how blockchain technology is reshaping money, trust, and the future of digital ownership.