I am Joseph Rex,
voyaging the boundaries of interfaces and interactions

Joseph is a software engineer at ConvertKit, a creative technologist that loves combining art and engineering, and dad to an over-demanding australian shepherd named Glitch.

Getting started with GUI development in Python

Most people that are fond of Windows operating system will always root for graphical desktop applications (GUI) over command line (CLI) programs. Since after DOS, windows operating systems have been known to use simple and user friendly GUI. This is one of the reasons why they have made a lot of customers around the world.

Prioritizing critical CSS for speed

I made a slide on this about a month back and I’ve since intended to write about it here.

Regex: A required skillset for developers and power users

I care about information and I believe everything we do wraps around trying to find information, protecting it, and making use of it. There is Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines, there is grep for Unix-like system users, there are search panes on applications and websites.

Good son, bad father: I'm leaving PHP but I love Laravel

PHP has a really shallow learning curve. It’s easy for a 8 year old to pick it up and start messing around with it. This is good and I love it about Python as well. However, PHP has been known to have a lot of flaws, one of the major reasons being because it was not built as a functional programming language but rather, just a Hypertext pre-processor.

I am not a perfectionist

I’m sick of hearing everyone call themselves perfectionists everywhere I go. Trust me, this is the most ridiculous thing you should call yourself from my view. I’d rather you use curse words on me than call me a perfectionist.

I'm an 'X' programmer

All things programming is a part of hackery to me. I love to hack stuffs and that’s what has pulled me into the planet of development and engineering. From my observation, some people miss the point on what programming is about.

Articles on X-Team Articles on Infosec Institute