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Published on Jun 21st, 2025 Thanks, NeonDB ! I just started using NeonDB thanks to their generous free tier. I have migrated the SmartNotes application to NeonDB and recreated the notes. June 19th, 2025 Update On Juneteenth, I started the migration process to Neon DB. I rewrote the Prisma queries and
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Published on Jun 20th, 2025 Currently the chat functionality on my portfolio is down because my website was probably accessed from abroad and my Open AI account got suspended. Read the fine print My account violated the terms of use which I did not read. I am now in the
portfolio
Published on Jan 17th, 2024 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 portfolio website to
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Published on Jan 4th, 2024 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 
nextjs
Published on Dec 29th, 2023 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 finishing my master&
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Published on Mar 16th, 2023 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. Revalidate: 600 I have kept the default
full-stack
Published on Feb 16th, 2023 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. What started
graphql
Published on Dec 27th, 2022 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
graphql
Published on Dec 2nd, 2022 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
blogging
Published on Nov 6th, 2022 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
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Published on Nov 6th, 2022 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