Development on Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)

NativePHP for Mobile Is Now Free: Finally I Can Try It!

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I confess I’ve been following NativePHP for Mobile since it was announced. The idea of being able to make native mobile applications with Laravel and only PHP seemed - and seems - a very good thing.

But there was a problem: the price. When I just wanted to try it, experiment, play a bit… the license cost held me back. I couldn’t justify the expense just to “curiously explore.”

Well, they just announced that NativePHP for Mobile v3 is completely free. Open Source, MIT license, free forever.

When Claude Plans Your Route on Mars: NASA Uses AI for Perseverance

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago I read news that left me thinking for a while. It’s not the first time I’ve heard about AI in space, but it is the first time I’ve read about Claude planning routes on Mars. And the best part: it worked.

NASA has been using Anthropic’s Claude to plan the Perseverance rover’s routes on Mars. Yes, you read that right: a generative language model generating navigation routes for a rover that’s 225 million kilometers away.

When Curiosity Meets Go: TinyEMU-Go and the Art of Porting an Emulator with AI

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago I came across an article that literally left me with my mouth open. It’s about TinyEMU-Go: a RISC-V emulator written entirely in Go, ported from C using Claude. And the best part: you can run a complete Linux with a single command.

The Command Line That Gave Me Envy

go run github.com/jtolio/tinyemu-go/temubox/example@2c8151233c2d

And boom, you have a complete Linux running. No special permissions, no containers, no weird dependencies. A pure static Go binary.

Five principles for using AI professionally (without going crazy)

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago I read an article by Dominiek about the 5 principles for using AI professionally and found myself constantly nodding. After years of watching technologies arrive and evolve, AI gives me the same feelings I had with other “revolutions”: enthusiasm mixed with a necessary dose of skepticism.

Dominiek’s article especially resonated with me because it perfectly describes what we’re experiencing: a world where AI is getting into everything, but not always in the most useful or sensible way.

Local AI on Raspberry Pi 5 with Ollama: Your private AI server at home

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A few months ago I came across something that really caught my attention: the possibility of having my own “ChatGPT” running at home, without sending data anywhere, using only a Raspberry Pi 5. Sounds too good to be true, right?

Well, it turns out that with Ollama and a Pi 5 it’s perfectly possible to set up a local AI server that works surprisingly well. Let me tell you my experience and how you can do it too.

Idempotency in Laravel: How to Avoid Duplicates in Your APIs with Elegance

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Idempotency in Laravel: How to Avoid Duplicates in Your APIs with Elegance

In modern API development, one of the most critical challenges is ensuring that operations don’t execute multiple times accidentally. Imagine a user making a payment and, due to connectivity issues, clicking the “Pay” button multiple times. Without proper measures, you might process multiple payments for the same transaction. This is where idempotency comes into play.

What is Idempotency?

Idempotency is a mathematical concept applied to programming that guarantees that an operation produces the same result regardless of how many times it’s executed. In the context of APIs, it means you can make the same request multiple times without causing additional side effects.

Effect TS: The Library Revolutionizing Functional Programming in TypeScript

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For a long time, TypeScript has lacked a robust standard library. While other languages like Rust, Go, or Python offer standard tools for error handling, concurrency, and side effects, TypeScript developers have had to resort to multiple specialized libraries. Effect TS is changing this by offering a unified and powerful solution for modern TypeScript application development.

What is Effect TS?

Effect is a powerful TypeScript library designed to help developers easily create complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs. Inspired by ZIO from Scala, Effect brings functional programming principles to TypeScript in a practical and accessible way.

Discovering the World of GIS Programming with Python: A Complete Immersion in Dr. Qiusheng Wu's Course

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In today’s world, geospatial data is everywhere. From map applications on our phones to global climate analysis, the ability to work with geographic information has become a fundamental skill for developers, data scientists, and analysts. Recently, I had the opportunity to explore Dr. Qiusheng Wu’s exceptional educational resource “Introduction to GIS Programming”, and I must say it is, without a doubt, one of the most comprehensive and accessible materials I’ve found for entering this fascinating field.

Complete Guide to Configuring Path Aliases in Node.js with TypeScript: Goodbye to Infinite '../../../'

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Are you tired of seeing imports like import Logger from "../../../utils/logger" in your Node.js projects? If you develop applications with complex folder structures, you’ve surely encountered the labyrinth of dots and slashes that relative imports can become. Fortunately, TypeScript offers an elegant solution: Path Aliases.

In this complete guide, you’ll learn to configure path aliases in Node.js projects with TypeScript, forever eliminating those confusing imports and significantly improving the readability and maintainability of your code.

STORM: The AI System Revolutionizing Long-Form Article Writing by Simulating Human Research Process

Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Creating long, well-founded articles has traditionally been a complex task requiring advanced research and writing skills. Recently, researchers from Stanford presented STORM (Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking), a revolutionary system that automates the Wikipedia-style article writing process from scratch, and the results are truly impressive.

In this detailed analysis, we’ll explore how STORM is transforming the way we think about AI-assisted writing and why this approach could forever change the way we create informative content.

API Documentation Library

Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:53:40 +0100

An interesting resource to have on hand when we need to document an API:

API Documentation Gallery

Where we have selected, very graphic examples of how to display the documentation of our APIs.

If you know of any interesting one, just make a pull request to:

github.com/yosriady/apidocs-gallery

echarts 3

Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:38:52 +0100

Thanks to a tweet from @juantomas, I came across a list of 9 JavaScript libraries for “Charts”: 9 Best JavaScript Charting Libraries.

Cocos2d x

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

When developing games for mobile devices, we have multiple cross-platform alternatives:

Compile Titanium Mobile applications from command line

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone has their preferences when it comes to editing code. For example, for PHP I use Netbeans, for html Textmate, …

Facebook applications over SSL

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago, Facebook began showing error messages when accessing applications from https, being available for developers, in the application configuration, two new fields, to indicate secure urls (over https).

Optimize Facebook applications beyond code

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The development of applications for Facebook requires us to specially optimize them so that they work based on two very important premises: Security and speed.

Slowness in IIS with FastCGI and PHP?

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Through FastCGI for IIS we can have support for PHP on the Microsoft server for Windows (IIS).

Implement Haanga as a template system for OpenCart

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

OpenCart is an e-commerce platform made in php, with impeccable development, 100% MVC. As a proof of concept, I have rewritten the template system of OpenCart to Haanga (Django templates for PHP, über efficient) by César Rodas.

Singleton for PHP 5.3, and patch for 5.2

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Through this abstract php class we can create our classes simply by extending this class

Icons for Android developers

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

WebAppers offers us 30 icons, and their sources for developers of this platform.

Wp-Answers by aNieto2k

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

aNieto2K has created a fabulous plugin for WordPress that allows creating communities based on questions and answers.

More information at: aNieto2k