Jacob

Jacob

Jacob is a software engineer with over 2 decades of experience in the field. His experience ranges from working in fortune 500 retailers, to software startups as diverse as the the medical or gaming industries. He has full stack experience and has even developed a number of successful mobile apps and games.

Best Git source control platform?

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Who is the best Git hosting platform? We compare the top three, which all offer free tiers, with links below. GitHub vs GitLab vs Bitbucket? GitLab Completely open source platform This means you could host it yourself including the CI/CD…

Better, More Open Social Media

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We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how social media should be more decentralized, owned by it’s own content creators, have better privacy, not have politically biased censorship, and be more secure. Alternatives So far here are some of the…

Best Visual Studio Code Extensions

The following are some of our favorite extensions for Visual Studio Code: Beautify or Prettier – Beautify javascript, JSON, CSS, Sass, and HTML in Visual Studio Code. Cordova Tools – Debug on a mobile emulator or a physical mobile device from directly inside of…

React vs. Stencil

I read this great post on Stencil, which asks “Is Stencil a better React?” They point out that Stencil runs more performant than React, and has a very similar syntax! Another part that I really like is that Stencil uses…