Jason Giroux
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On January 2025, we hit a significant milestone with the launch of Drivnbye, a social media platform built for automotive enthusiasts.
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Looking for a powerful, free, and private alternative to GitHub Copilot? Ollama offers local AI coding capabilities without telemetry, using models like llama3.1:8b for chat and qwen2.5-coder:1.5b for autocompletion. Learn how to set up Ollama on a Windows PC with an NVIDIA 4060TI and integrate it with Cursor IDE on a MacBook Pro for cross-network…
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While getting ready to roll out DrivnBye into private beta I spent some time working on some pipelines to automate a lot of our release work. I originally implemented the recommended way of utilizing Expo cloud to build our app binaries for android and iOS within a github action however it took less than 3…
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After years of being on the fence with buying a racing sim I finally decided “it’s now or never” and I pulled the trigger. After a couple weeks of settling in I realized there is a lot to be desired in terms of realism; I also wanted an excuse to break out the 3D printer…
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Recently I came across a need to add a watermark to photos in my React native + expo app when photos are shared outside of my app. My goal was to make watermarks customizable, reusable and most importantly it needs to play nice with expo & EAS. There are a couple options on npm that…
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Social media applications requires live data if you want a good User experience but creating your own websocket server is tedious. Entering Centrifugo a prebuilt production ready websocket server ready to scale with you.
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Lately I have been spending my free time working on a mobile application for car enthusiasts – DrivnBye. This application has forced me out of my comfort zone with every feature I work on. We’re a couple months from release on the iOS and Android app store and we decided to start stress testing our…