Published in Learning Lab·Nov 2, 2021Member-onlyBuilding a Video Game in One Week With GodotLearning the Godot Engine by building a full-featured video game — When I was in high school (in 2007), I built my first video game. It was a multiplayer persistent online browser game based on the TV show Prison Break 👮 (it is still online for demo purposes, and I left the ugly code open source). Since then I didn’t build…Game Development9 min read
Jul 22, 2021Member-onlyAutomate Notion with TelegramSet up your Telegram to Notion Integration in a few seconds — Notion is a powerful all-in-one productivity tool, and it gets exponentially better when you make Notion the central part of your system: your second brain 🧠. …Notion3 min read
Published in Learning Lab·Mar 9, 2021Member-onlyGetting Started with Ethical HackingA simple guide for anyone who wants to learn ethical hacking — Cybersecurity is a very important part of our world. We read very often news about data leaks that sometimes sadly include our own personal data. You can even check the website Have I Been Pwned if your email appears in any data leak. As a web developer, I know a…Hacking14 min read
Published in Learning Lab·Jan 26, 2021Member-onlyHow to Use Drawings to Boost Your ImaginationLearning how to draw Rakugaki, a Japanese drawing style — Four years ago, I started the Learning Lab challenge 🚀, basically every 1 or 2 months I learn about a new topic and build something related to this topic. I don’t have a strict criteria to choose a topic, it depends on how I feel, the skills I want to…Drawing5 min read
May 24, 2020Why I am quitting WhatsApp? 📱🙅♂️A Tale of a Giant Losing a Tiny Customer — Short Story (TL;DR) I have recently been contacted by WhatsApp lawyers and they asked me to shut down one of my apps called WhatsBlast (an app to send customized group messages). I tried to come up with different alternatives such as removing the “connection” with WhatsApp or even to put the app open…Whats App11 min read
Published in Learning Lab·Apr 28, 2020Building a SaaS with TypeScript, ExpressJS, and SOLID principles: the good the bad and the ugly#14 — Learning how to create a clean project with TypeScript following the SOLID principles — It has been 3 years where every month (or two) I learn about one new topic. It’s what I call the Learning Lab challenge 🚀. This time I took a bit longer to learn about both the TypeScript language and the SOLID architecture. As a developer, I constantly need to…Typescript10 min read
Published in Learning Lab·Feb 11, 2020Flutter vs NativeScript: a Web Developer’s perspective#13 — A comparison between Flutter and NativeScript from the eye of a web developer — Two years ago I started the Learning Lab challenge: to learn about one new topic every one or two months. The previous months, after learning about nutrition, I decided to learn the framework Flutter 🙌. Flutter - Beautiful native apps in record time Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for crafting beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from…flutter.devFlutter6 min read
Published in Learning Lab·May 14, 2019How I Learnt Nutrition in Two Months and Redefined My DietUnderstand what you eat for a better life — It has been 2 years where every month (or two) I learn about one new topic. It’s what I call the Learning Lab challenge 🚀. These last two months I decided to learn about nutrition, a very broad topic trapped between the popular believes and the scientific papers. You wonder…Diet13 min read
Jan 11, 2019How to Build a Productive System with Evernote to Get Things DoneBe more productive to enjoy a stress-free life — In a busy world, it’s important to take charge of your own time to be able to live freely and without stress 🙂. I personally started to work on my productivity 10 years ago, in my first years of college, in order to find a good balance between study, student…Productivity12 min read
Published in Learning Lab·Dec 20, 2018Lessons Learned on Writing Apps with NativeScript VueJS#11— An overview on How to Build Native Apps with NativeScript VueJS — After learning how to taste wine 🍷, I decided to follow my second year of the Learning Lab challenge, by taking 1 month to learn how to build native apps with NativeScript VueJS. You will see in this post how to do the same and quickly build native apps! As…Java Script13 min read
