https://alvarezivan.net/blog Case studies, side projects, and engineering notes by Iván Álvarez. en-US https://alvarezivan.net/blog/jp-landing https://alvarezivan.net/blog/jp-landing Official landing site for Jhey Pi, built with Nuxt 4 and Nuxt UI to combine Spotify releases and YouTube videos into a single feed. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/retail-ecommerce-recovery https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/retail-ecommerce-recovery A recovery-shaped engagement on an inherited NestJS + Strapi storefront: stabilize the runtime, contain the SAP integration behind a single boundary, containerize the deploy path, and keep Strapi to editorial content. This is the recovery half of a paired engagement; the rebuild that followed is its own story. Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/retail-sap-quotation-app https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/retail-sap-quotation-app Architecting and shipping a mobile-first sales-quotation application on Laravel + Filament, integrated with SAP as the source of truth for catalog and pricing, and rolled out to sales teams across the country. Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/supermarket-pwa-recovery https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/supermarket-pwa-recovery How a stalled Node.js + Angular e-commerce project was diagnosed, recovered, and shipped end-to-end as a PWA and mobile apps for a high-volume customer base — with a Docker registry and CI/CD pipeline that made continuous delivery possible for the team that came after. Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/retail-ecommerce-rebuild https://alvarezivan.net/blog/case-studies/retail-ecommerce-rebuild After the recovery, the next engagement was a from-scratch e-commerce build on NestJS + Next.js + Medusa, delivered with a team of 4 inside a three-month window. SAP stayed as the source of truth, the integration boundary from the recovery was reused as a contract, and the cutover was planned from day one. Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/intern-movie-torrent https://alvarezivan.net/blog/intern-movie-torrent What happens when you give tech-savvy people eight hours of internet access a day? Welcome to the The Intern is downloading movies again problem. Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/from-nuxt-to-hugo https://alvarezivan.net/blog/from-nuxt-to-hugo Why I migrated this site from Nuxt 2 to Hugo and later returned to Nuxt—what changed, what stayed, and the decisions that kept the rebuild manageable. Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/bcv-scraper https://alvarezivan.net/blog/bcv-scraper Venezuela has unique challenges for e-commerce. Local laws and tax regulations require invoices in bolívares while prices are quoted in USD. A simple Python and FastAPI scraper helps developers fetch the Banco Central de Venezuela exchange rate—here's when it makes sense and how to build it. Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://alvarezivan.net/blog/japanese-input https://alvarezivan.net/blog/japanese-input Here are the steps to install fcitx5 and fcitx5-mozc input method for Japanese in openSUSE Tumbleweed. Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT