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Innovation 4 SDSU — My First Hackathon Experience and What I Learned

My first hackathon experience took place at the Innovation 4 SDSU Hackathon, hosted by CTRL. I walked in with little ide...

SHPE National Conference 2025: My Experience and the Guide I Wish I Had

Attending the SHPE National Conference 2025 was one of the most meaningful experiences of my undergraduate years. As a c...

LLM-Powered Bible Tutor — A Deep Technical Breakdown + Engineering Reflection

The idea for this project began with a simple question: What if we could create an AI tutor that explains the Bible whil...

Choosing the Right Rendering Strategy for Your Web Application: Client-Side vs. Server-Side Rendering

This article explores the two dominant rendering strategies in modern web development: client-side rendering (CSR) and s...

How I Built My Portfolio Website as a Sales Funnel

Hi, I am Luis Villalón—a full-stack developer passionate about building web applications that help businesses improve ef...

How Dropping Out and Saving Lives Led Me to Web Development

In 2016, I enrolled at the University of California, Riverside, as an environmental engineering major. Like many student...

Luis Villalón

2025-06-18

5 min read

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