An app to keep up with tech news

and shipping on the fly

When I was interviewing for a new position, I was approached with the question "how do you keep up to date with the latest trends in technology?" Delighted by such a question, I mentioned that I had built an application just so that I can keep track of the latest industry news. Ofcourse I had forgetten the fact that I had torn down that application from my server not too long as I shut down my VPS. Long story short, back in about 2017, I built an app called Bunny, as a riff on Panda. I chose bunny because both bunnies and pandas are both extremely cute and gentle animals. Also because my partner loves rabbits so as a tribute to her love for said fuzzy rodent, I aptly named my application as such.

Back on the topic of the application build. Bunny aggregates news posts using rss feeds to track the latest news from some of my favorite news sources Designer News, Hacker News, Lobsters, Product Hunt, Frontend Front, and EchoJs to keep me in the loop while circumventing the need for the the use of API keys to aggregate news feeds from each of the respective servers' JSON/XML API services.

Right after my interview, I had to scramble to put up the application that I had mentioned. This was also around the time when I started diving into vercel as they were the hosting and deployment service that I had used this current site(2021). Rightfully so, I've been very impressed by how quick the deployments for the application was. All I had to do was connect vercel to my github repo, choose the application and hit deploy and worked its magic. Any extra work that had to be done was to point my DNS to their IP addresses and it spun up like magic. I can only imagine the countless hours of work that I had saved to be able to deploy this application on the fly.

So basically, massive props to vercel on coming up with an amazing solution for hosting/deployments solutions. Definitely a life-saver.