Added Chat functionality I recently created a chatbot based on ChatGPT where I learned to create content embeddings to empower ChatGPT to chat with our data. The experience went as well as could be expected. I have added more information from my port...

The new version of the portfolio is live I have completed the Landing, Resume and Blog pages and I have edited the domain names on Vercel to point to tioye.dev. The previous build on Vercel is officially retired. New Landing Page, New Beginnings The...

A summary of the major events Graduation: Class of 2023 The 2023 year ended on a high note for me as I have completed grad school with my Master degree in Computer Science. Before I start freaking out about job interviews, and my 6-figure student loa...

Enter TypeScript and Next.js 14 I am continuing the process of visually overhauling my portfolio website. A few weeks after upgrading my site to Next.js, I have started using TypeScript for my web applications. I have spent the Fall semester finishin...

Hashnode connected Today I followed the incredibly useful blog post by CatalinPit and I connected my portfolio blog directly to Hashnode, skipping GraphCMS. This negates the need to create a duplicate post in GraphCMS after posting on Hashnode. Reval...

My solar energy startup platform FasoLara has reached a new milestone recently and I decided to start a new blog series about it! The project management platform has been a long journey since I published my first commit to GitHub in October 2020. Wha...

Demo Project links are live Today I made a minor change to the portfolio website by adding a button linking to the live projects. I should have done this ages ago, but I was waiting to migrate my projects away from Heroku beforehand to avoid broken l...

Website is now live! I have updated the domain of my new portfolio website to https://tioye.dev and the original version to legacy.tioye.dev. This feels like a huge step although there are still several changes that needs to happen. Need to add mobil...

How to Use PrismJS with NextJS This is a summary of how I got syntax highlighting to work on my NextJS blog Install Prism First I installed Prism.JS from NPM. You can use Yarn npm i prismjs or yarn add prismjs Import Prism into the Next.JS Componen...

Contact Page is activated Today I worked on integrating a SendGrid email functionality on the Contact form. It was fairly easy to setup once I figured out how to correctly set my environment variables. I have set up a way to send a Thank You email to...

The Experience page is live! I have managed to create the experience page and make it look very close to the Figma design without too many issues Feeling proud The design of the experience section worried me a little because I knew I had to use sever...

Portfolio and Blog pages are done The main logic of the portfolio page is done for now. There is extra information I would like to display on the project details page, but those are trivial compared to the main task of fetching the correct projects f...

The first draft is live! Today I have deployed the current version of the app to vercel. It was a great way to make sure all the pieces of the skeleton fit together nicely. Barring a few obvious mistakes in styling and importing various component, I ...

Short Update: Blog is working! I spent the last two days focusing on the blog page. I was able to connect the GraphCMS backend to the frontend and the routes and data fetching is functional. The first difficulty I faced when attempting to connect was...

It's time to upgrade my portfolio website! This was long overdue because I created my portfolio website in the Summer of 2020, at a time when I barely knew any JavaScript. Do Not Repeat Yourself! When using pure HTML and CSS, it is very challenging t...

As they say, another day, another dollar Today was a good day to finish one of my unfinished projects and I did just that! After publishing the project on Vercel, I feel ready to tackle the Charts component on more unfinished personal projects. Char...

We have all been there.. We all have that long list of unfinished side projects that we hope to complete some day.. If you're anything like me, that 'some day' is always eluding you and never getting here.. Ripping up the bandaid Today I have decide...