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This post is a podcast talking about goals of getting new projects to make my work more exciting, and to also get paid more. There is no excuse for doing boring work as a web dev, especially when there is so much fun stuff to do. I should talk to Carlos about this.

Talking about going to my first coding meetup since before covid in NYC and meeting some new people. Also, talking about moving into more React work and branching out and learning new skills when it feels like I’m stagnating at my current position. Being bored at work is unacceptable for me. If that is happening, …

Podcast – Coding Meetup; Working on React Native projects for new contracts Read More »

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/omars-web-development-podcast/id1553807119?i=1000570460460 Talking about rental property investing and increasing income as the easiest and most fun way to get there. There’s lots of amazing fun contracts and work out there in web dev. There’s work that draws me in, that I can’t stop working on once I start. Much better to find those contracts and learn …

Podcast: Increasing income by finding more fun work; Investing in rental property; Getting into Toptal Read More »

Trying to figure out a budget so that I can buy a house next June. I’m wanting to put 10% down and pay around 300,000 – since that’s about what I’ll be able to afford by June 2023. But, so that I will actually be able to afford that, I need to have a budget …

Weekly budget / savings plan for rental property Read More »

I’ve been thinking about real estate investing for a few years now. I’ve known several people who had success with real estate. I first became interested in it seriously after seeing success that my friend Barry had with his properties in California. When I was living in New Orleans, I met one guy named David …

Financial investment – Buying a rental property with income from web development Read More »

I’ve been listening to Arnold Schwarzeneggers autobiography. It is extremely inspiring. This is my 3rd pass through the book currently. I’ve already listened to it twice in 2 weeks. It’s a 20-hour book, but I listen on double speed. A trick I learned from a wise man. Arnold was very passionate about his goals, and …

The Benefit of Having Clear Goals and Writing Them Down Read More »

After installing react-native, I was trying to initialize my first project for a shopping list tutorial. Running the command react-native init ShoppingList, I ran into some errors. At the point where I was trying to initialize my React Native project, I was receiving an error that I needed to install a package called Cocoapods. I …

How I Installed React Native and Dependencies (Cocoapods) Read More »

My problem with my Kinesis was that I couldn’t get the passcode authentication popup for the keyboard connection to pop up. Quick Summary: To fix the issue I had, I did the following: Navigated to the Mac main bluetooth menu settings (“Settings > Bluetooth”) Disconnected the keyboard with the “X” button Reconnected the keyboard – …

How to Reconnect Kinesis Freestyle 2 Blue Keyboard to Mac Read More »

There are situations where we want to duplicate a git repo in a separate project with different Git history. However, when we clone the repo, we want to bring with us the git history of the previous repo. This can be done with a few simple commands. Documentation on this can be seen at GitHub.com. …

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