Berlin Architectural Network
A platform for Berlin's largest architecture community.
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I'm Daniel, a Brazilian self-taught front end developer and formally-educated architect, based in Berlin.
After years building buildings, I decided what I really like is to build stuff online.
Remote Architects Club
A platform for architects to share their experiences working from home.
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Awarded
An app to help you keep track of award-winning movies and books.
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How to add auto-generated favicons to a Nuxt project
For every Nuxt project I start, I always use these two modules to add auto-generated favicons to the site.
read →How to deploy backend apps with Dokku on Digital Ocean
I recently moved all my apps from Heroku to a DigitalOcean droplet using Dokku. This centralized things and I saved me a bunch of money. Here is a recipe I follow for each new app to get it up-and-running.
read →Redesigning Awarded
Awarded needs a redesign - it is currently full of bugs and its interface is inconsistent and messy. I will use its redesign as a learning opportunity to help level up my web development skills.
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I'm Daniel, a Brazilian self-taught front end developer and formally-educated architect, based in Berlin.
Son of a pair of computer scientists, I've been around computers my whole life. We always had the latest and greatest back then: XT with a red screen! CD-ROM, wow. Windows 98! It wasn't long before I dived into coding: always accompanied either by a The [insert language name here] Bible or some O'Reilly guide, I went through PHP, MySQL, Actionscript (Flash yeah!), lots of HTML, and some CSS back then. I was the first to have a website and even got a little "famous" blog and podcast back when you had to download the MP3 with iTunes and sync it with your iPod.
Somewhere along the way, I fell in love with Architecture and decided it was to become my profession. After all, "I'll build real things, real buildings, not just online stuff." For a long time, I loved it: I worked my ass off and did pretty well in my career. And even during it all, I was always coding. It started with Maya 3D and Python scripting back in school (generative design!), followed by Grasshopper, Rhino, and more Python scripting, in practice.
In my free time, I would go deep into modern web development, going crazy with all the possibilities at my fingertips. I felt I could build anything I wanted, fast, have people using it, learn from it, and iterate. This cycle is non-existent in architecture. A project you design today might take years to be ready. By then, you'll have moved on, missing out on learning what was actually working or not for your end-user.
I want more of the never-ending feedback and learning cycle in my life. I want to have a stronger connection with people who are interacting with my work. That is why I am switching careers. From years in architecture, I'll bring all I learned into tech. And keep on building. Because "online stuff" turned out to be quite important, after all.