Vicente G. Reyes

My first paid freelance job was a $5 mixing gig on Fiverr. I'd been recording myself and my band for...

Most developers stuck before their first client don't have a skills problem. You've built the side...

GiggleGigs is a job board I run: Django + DRF on the backend, React + Vite on the front (on Vercel),...

GiggleGigs is a job board I run: Django + DRF on the backend, React + Vite on the front, Celery for...

GiggleGigs is a job board I run: Django + DRF on the backend, React + Vite on the front, Celery for...

My portfolio worked fine. That was the problem. It was a tidy neubrutalist site: yellow, cyan and...

It started with one Sentry alert on a Tuesday night: ServerError: An internal error has occurred....

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

I saw a post on X a few days ago that says SaaS is dead and we just build software for ourselves....

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I...

If you want something live before the year ends, November is the last good month to start. December...

Most job boards are glorified spreadsheets with a search bar. GiggleGigs isn't. It's a two-sided...

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I had a GitHub Actions workflow called Deploy to DigitalOcean. It had been sitting in the repo for...

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I opened Ubuntu's App Center, scrolled through ~90 installed packages, and asked the obvious...

I sat down to work on Rev6 and couldn't load the site. Not a slow load, not an SSL warning — nothing....

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. The...

Nobody asked me to do this. I maintain a WooCommerce store bolted to LearnDash courses on a Divi...

On heavy coding work, I finish Claude's usage in more or less 2 hours. Is that fine or not? I'm on...

A debugging story about WooCommerce Subscriptions, caching red herrings, and one deliberate line of...

Every service page on my portfolio ends with the same call to action: a big Start Project button....

I'm the lead developer on a WooCommerce/Divi/LearnDash membership platform. Like most mature...

I already had a resume download gate — email required, signed link, 15-minute expiry, presigned S3...

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If you're running a cookiecutter-django project on a droplet and still ssh-ing in every time you need...

Building a Plugin-Free Newsletter Popup on WordPress: Custom REST Endpoint → Mailchimp API...

Most "add search to WordPress" tutorials stop at dropping a widget in the header. That's fine until...