Hunter Skrasek
The thoughts and opinions of Hunter Skrasek, a 23 year old web developer based out of Austin, Texas.
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Working with raw queues in Laravel
“47% of users on the web expect websites to load in two seconds or less.” Two seconds may not seem like a hard feat to accomplish, but some tasks can really slow an application down, such as sending email(s). One way to get around this is to defer the task...
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My Trip to India - Days Seven & Eight
I decided to merge the posts for yesterday and today since they were primarily work days, with nothing super out of the ordinary. I also went out for drinks with two of my co-workers at a Jimi Hendrix themed bar, and initially I was just going to get one drink,...
My Trip to India - Day Six
Day six started a tad later than usual, on the account of the company party (aka hangovers) and being out late. Thankfully, no hangovers for me, but boy oh boy was I sore thanks to all the dancing from last night. Got to experience getting room service for the first...
My Trip to India - Day Five
Thankfully day five started later than usual, allowing me to get some more sleep. Today we went to visit a local orphanage that Perk.com sponsors and donates money to each month. Finding the orphanage was the first leg of the adventure, our CEO knew where it was, but giving directions...
My Trip to India - Day Four
Today was probably the best Friday I’ve had at work in a long while, I didn’t get to do a single bit of programming at all, but I am actually okay with that. Today we joined the Bangalore team in a game of cricket. It was a tad hot outside,...
My Trip to India - Day Three
Day three of the India trip, and it wasn’t as bad as Blake made it out to be. Definitely tired by the end of the day, and almost didn’t want to write this, but it was good. After eating a huge breakfast, since we usually just skip lunch while at...