iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/08/2025

this is cool, I made myself a webapp to help me manage and combine styles and characters to use with gpt-image-1. It's like my own personal midjourney

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/07/2025

Tomorrow I'm giving a small talk about how to get hired as a software eng in 2025. I built my self a slide presentation webapp, and I can get Claude Code to automatically generate images for the slides for me using the OpenAI API. This is so much better than Keynote.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/07/2025

Software development in 2026

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 28/06/2025

Turns out you can animate the Ender's Game book cover

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 19/06/2025

This is going to be our main coding workflow next year

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 29/05/2025

nice shout-out at App.js conf for @coolsoftware.dev !

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 26/05/2025

Vibe coding over the Atlantic. Neat.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 25/05/2025

On my way to App.js Conf!! See you in Krakow 🇵🇱

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 22/05/2025

These are the stickers I'm going to give out at App.js Conf. Say hi to me if you want one!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 16/05/2025

I updated my sticker for AppJS conf. Hopefully it gets here in time before I leave. See me at the conference to get one!

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/05/2025

lol ok this is the most I've ever spent on OpenAI API usage. This is for ~100 images generated

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/05/2025

I accidentally stayed up all night hacking a side project that uses the new open ai image model. I've been wanting something that helps me explore art styles.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 04/05/2025

I've been making myself a UI to generate images with the new gpt-image-1 model. This feels way faster than using it through the ChatGPT app. This model requires personal verification. I had to take a picture of my drivers license and scan my face in order to use it 😳😳😳

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/05/2025

I don't know if I know anyone at Facebook, but after logging into my account I get a 500 GQL error on a `/checkpoint` page. Because I can't get past this page, I don't even have access to support, so how does one even get this fixed?

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 03/05/2025

It's crazy how quickly you can get things done with Cursor. This took me like half an hour of voice dictating into cursor to build. I did a lot of iterations on the design

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 02/05/2025

Unsure what made me make this sticker

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 15/04/2025

sometimes I miss the i and hit o instead

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 10/04/2025

I got to visit Kumamon today

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 07/04/2025

In my happy place, having a Horoyoi on the Shinkansen

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 07/04/2025

Interesting thing with ChatGPT. You can ask it to search and make you a weather report, and then make it pretty. This to me feels like an n-1 step to an app. I think very soon we'll have dynamic apps like this in less than a year, making a huge change in mobile development

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 02/04/2025

LLMs are not computers

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 22/03/2025

No sure if anyone else is into kaizening their flight experience. I bought myself an iPad case that I can load up with the things I need during long flights. It's working out pretty well. Shit is organized and it fits in the back pocket.

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 16/03/2025

I've been trying to do a little bit of work to keep my Itsumo Benkyou project going. I have less capacity during the winter because winter is such a bummer, but now that it's spring I have more energy and I'm trying to keep up progress. Still working on the signup page. I haven't been happy with it

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 14/03/2025

Here's my unique perspective for the day

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 13/03/2025

Anybody a Storybook/Vite expert? I keep getting the require is not defined error. I understand why that's happening, but I have no idea how to configure Vite properly

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 13/03/2025

If you see me at a conference this year, ask me for a sticker

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 12/03/2025

I've been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance II. It's such a great game. So pretty too. Very deep

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Rafael Mendiola @raf.dev · 10/03/2025

Getting back to work on my Japanese study app, and I generated a story of taking a ferry trip from Osaka to Beppu. What's funny is that I can create the image in different styles, and I chose "mecha" for this one