If you’ve spent more than five minutes in a developer community, you’ve seen it. The debate. The one that never ends. “Strict typing is better!” “No, weak typing is better!” “You’re wrong!” “No, YOU’RE wrong!” It’s the programming equivalent of…
For as long as I remember working in web development, there has been this idea that when you get a design mockup, if you can integrate it “pixel perfect”, you are the best frontend developer there is. The cream of…
I’ve been building Discord bots for years. Custom ones, weird ones, some that handle thousands of users daily. But I had never built a real Discord game integration before. When a game studio needed exactly that, I jumped at the…
Fun fact about me: I know a lot about rats. I know, seems random for a developer! That wasn’t always the case though. At the time this story takes place, I genuinely thought they were dirty, bitey little creatures. I…
This story takes place in Montreal, Quebec, in November 2019. Back then, I was part of the emergency team of a company that was making a lot of e-commerce websites. And as I was just arriving to work, I noticed…
This is the story of this one time when I made a significant structure update to the official VALORANT Discord server’s moderation bot: VANGUARD. Quite the catchy name, right? VANGUARD was originally “created” for the VALORANT Discord servers. Why did…