Writing on code, technology, web, IoT, cloud and how I’m teaching my kids to love technology.

All of my long-form thoughts collected in chronological order.

Using the Cubetto with Direction Indicators

My 3-year-old daughter enjoys playing with the Cubetto, however, she was having a hard time with the commands to change direction. In my review of the Cubetto, I mentioned that I will experiment with putting stickers on top of the Cubetto. This post describes how I tackled this and the reaction of my 3-year-old. Modding

Solved: The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Standard 2.0.

I wanted to contribute to Ocelot, however when I tried to build the solution I got this error: “The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Standard 2.0. Either target .NET Standard 1.6 or lower, or use a version of the .NET SDK that supports .NET Standard 2.0.” This blog post details the steps

My First Commit to an Open Source Project

I've been working as a developer for a long time now. However, I've avoided contributing to open source projects. I guess the main reason was that I was somehow uneasy with the kind of reviews my contribution would receive. What if my contribution is met by a review similar to the review by Linus Torvalds in this article?

A Review of Cubetto by Primo Toys

Cubetto is a coding toy for kids who are 3 years or older. If you read How I Became a Programmer, you’ll know that I started coding at around 6 years old. So when I first encountered the kickstarter for Cubetto, I was immediately intrigued. At that time my daughter was not 3 years old yet. I

Workaround: Docker Container Cannot be Started After Windows Restart

Recently I’ve been testing out Docker for Windows. You can find more information on my experience here and here. Today, I started getting strange errors when I tried to start a container in docker. The error I was getting was: Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint cranky_panini: Error starting userland