https://franciscovelazquez.com/Francisco Velazquez personal blog about software development life in the California Bay Area. 2026-06-04T23:23:53-07:00 Francisco Velazquez https://franciscovelazquez.com/ Jekyll © 2026 Francisco Velazquez /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-08-17T05:00:00-07:00 2023-08-17T05:00:00-07:00 https://franciscovelazquez.com/blog/guest-author/a-techies-take-on-diving-into-ecommerce/ Francisco Velazquez

Introduction Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! If you’re reading this blog, chances are you’re knee-deep in lines of code or passionately navigating through the dynamic world of technology. But today, I’m going to steer away from the usual tech talk and delve into something different – the inspiring journey of a friend who embarked on an e-commerce adventure after a sudden layoff from a tech...

2020-12-08T11:00:00-08:00 2020-12-08T11:00:00-08:00 https://franciscovelazquez.com/blog/hosting-a-blog-with-github-pages/ Francisco Velazquez

On today’s blog post I’ll guide you through the steps I took to create this site using github pages, Jekyll and the Minimal Mistakes theme. In just a matter of minutes you should be able to launch your site and start blogging. One of the many advantages of hosting with github pages is that it’s free! Another amazing benefit is that you get free out of the box https support if you decide to use...

2020-12-06T12:00:00-08:00 2020-12-06T12:00:00-08:00 https://franciscovelazquez.com/blog/github-pr-commandline/ Francisco Velazquez

Hello there fellow Github user! Do you ever wish you could open pull requests right from the command line? Are you tired of having to fill out common information like “assignee”, “reviews” and “tags”? Well, you are in luck because using the hub extension you will be able to power up your github skills. what is hub? Hub is a command-line library that uses the github rest api to let you do conv...

2020-12-06T08:35:00-08:00 2020-12-06T08:35:00-08:00 https://franciscovelazquez.com/blog/macos-dev-setup/ Francisco Velazquez

The following is a personal guide on what I setup for my development machine. When setting up a new installation of macOS remember to pick a username that makes sense such as fvelazquez and avoid a pseudonym like kikin81. This will be helpful when ssh into it. The first thing to consider is to create a backup of your hidden files/folders that you want to keep such as .zshrc for zsh and .ssh f...