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Start early, start now.

Say please and thank you to ChatGPT and any other conversational AI.

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K-2SO copying data from another droid

I just re-watched Rogue One the other day…and besides loving K-2SO (and Alan Tudyk), I noticed something new. When K-2SO is acquiring data from another similar model, the data sync is shown by the eyes blinking a pattern in unison to “communicate” to the audience that one is being copied to the other.

Check it out for yourself:

Pretty cool, huh?

The move to react native

The ENTIRE reason I initially pursued programming later in my career as a product manager was because I was frustrated with the time it took to get from the abstract concepts written in my verbose requirements documents to actual code that was living and breathing. I initially learned Rails because of the approachability of Ruby and the community and also because of some of the tooling that got messy stuff out of my way so I could get the basics done more rapidly. Progress a few years and I’ve launched an iOS app using Swift…then had hired a contract dev to build the android app. This was my first venture as developer or product into the mobile app world and it was enormously frustrating to have feature disparity between platforms. Inevitably, iOS would have the features before Android because I was at the helm and the Android users didn’t appreciate that. So I started looking for options and I had seen a few things about React Native. I immediately started absorbing as much as I could by reading everything, took a Udemy class, and then embarked on rebuilding my Swift/Java app in React Native. I have a week or two of coding left and it will be in both app stores. Efficient, effective, easy to use, intelligent…it’s fair to say I love React Native and would really welcome coding in it full time. I am using Facebook (login and sharing), Parse Server, (entire data system) Redux, OneSignal for notifications, Ad Mob, Google Analytics, and React Native Router Flux.