DEVLog - September

Hey there, it’s incredible that a new month has already passed. Time flies and waits for no one, so it’s time to review what is new in my portfolio of projects and what is coming next.

IMG Processing Release

IMG Processing has been my biggest release in months. It’s a tool to integrate image processing, analysis, and editing in applications with ease. I started its implementation two months ago and released it three weeks ago.

IMG Processing

Image Processing API. A picture is worth a thousand words. Integrate powerful image processing capabilities into your applications in minutes.

img-processing.com

It’s a serious project that solves an issue I had implementing Bezier, a diagramming tool I’ve been developing this year. However, it’s also an experiment I’ve used to test the capabilities of technologies, integration of tools, and marketing strategies for upcoming projects.

I’ve learned a lot of things and made a lot of mistakes. I’ll write about them in the next posts, as I’m still learning at the time I write this, and I can’t imagine solutions for some of the problems I’ve faced.

Serverless Revolution

Discover what happened in April 2024. This month features deployment strategies using Cloudflare, Vercel, and other serverless platforms for zero-cost development.

rolandoandrade.me

Related to this project, in October I hope to add some extra features, an integration with automation tools, and some optimizations to enhance upload times.

SignatureAPI

Despite IMG Processing being my new beloved side project, my real gig is SignatureAPI, a high-volume digital signature platform released in March of this year.

This month came with three new features: two already in production for all customers, and one almost ready that I’ll keep secret until its release.

By the beginning of September, we discovered clients struggled to create their first envelope on the platform. We had a lot of sign-ups, but users had almost no activity after signing up. For this reason, we had the great idea of implementing a playground on the platform with everything ready to go. The best part? It really worked. This month there are almost 0 new users with no envelopes created.

The other great feature of this month was the integration of a public storage service like R2 or S3 for the users on the platform, so they can use their documents without making them public by URLs or other methods that aren’t completely private.

I Left my Teaching Position

Maybe bad news or good news, depending on how it goes in the uncertain future. I couldn’t continue. I was unable to continue in my position as a professor during this semester.

Being a professor has always been one of my dreams. I did it for the last two semesters and it was an awesome experience, but this semester I had to leave it. It wasn’t an easy decision, but I have more dreams and desires, and I could no longer endure the weight of teaching in a nation that, in its own way, was expelling me. I’m trying to stay, but the country only gives me reasons to leave.

This isn’t the end, merely a pause. My spirit yearns to educate, to inspire. A new chapter is being written. I will continue teaching and helping others. It’s my passion anyway. I will find a way.

I’m studying the possibility of becoming a YouTuber, teaching people around the world with life-changing lectures. Let’s see how it goes, and I’ll let you know what I decide.

The Future

My blog has come to life again. From now on I’ll take it more seriously since its discoverability and reach has increased a lot in the past months, and I’ll try to use it as a script and draft of ideas that perhaps one day will become videos on a social network. Who knows?

On the other hand, I have more projects and features to announce. I expect great things in October. I’ll keep learning with the IMG Processing experience, releasing features with SignatureAPI, and developing side projects to make a difference.

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