Hi, I'm Alex Kates 馃憢 I'm a product engineer currently working at Croissant as a Founding Engineer. I'm addicted to writing about building, and building things worth writing about. Some extracurriculars include AWS Community Builder Instructor at MIT xPRO Bootcamp Volunteer at Tech for Campaigns
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Jun 9, 2025 路 1 min read 路 DynamoDB Extended is a Chrome extension that adds quality-of-life improvements to the AWS DynamoDB web console, including persistent query history, auto-unmarshalled JSON, and query replay. Every query you run is automatically saved, so you don't hav...
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Mar 6, 2025 路 3 min read 路 On March 4th, 2025, I woke up thinking it was just another Tuesday morning. Like many people, I started my day by making a cup of coffee and scrolling through social media. But this day was different because it was the AWS Community Builder acceptanc...
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Jul 28, 2024 路 2 min read 路 TL;DR For the Hashnode AI For Tomorrow Hackathon, I launched CongressGPT to help us finally understand what Congress is actually doing. CongressGPT lets users have natural language conversations with the latest bills from the United States House of R...
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Feb 22, 2024 路 13 min read 路 I've come across a fun website feature that has been appearing mainly on developers' personal sites: a Guestbook page where users can sign in and leave a message. This somewhat reminds me of the old Facebook wall from the 2000s which I admit I miss v...
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Feb 2, 2024 路 3 min read 路 TL;DR For the Hashnode APIs Hackathon, I launched hashnode-next, a beautifully simple Hashnode starter kit powered by Next.js and shadcn/ui. Hashnode-next is the fastest way to go headless with Hashnode, enabling you to migrate your blog with just on...
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