Day 20 - Actually Build w/ VScode (v.) ⚡️

We are coding now. First Commits. First PRs. (⚡️BetterFriend Project Day 8 - 38)

Henry Love

Aug 02, 2025

noun.

: to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials.

: to establish, increase, or strengthen (often followed byup )

: to form or construct a plan, system of thought, etc.

Quick Recap:

Stay in touch w/ Friends

We are building a simple v0.1 of BetterFriend app by using WhatsApp Chatbot to remind people their loved one’s birthday with AI.

We talking about Practice

After all that talk about Git, I had to make sure I learned the proper version control in action. So I made a quick 12 min video for whoever has never used VScode, Github PR, Creating a Branch and all of that.

This is a continuation of the video from the last video here for those want to see how to host a free website in 2 mins.

Day 19 - Hosting (n.)⚡️

Henry Love

Aug 2

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Code lasts forever

My best friend Chris once told me this quote in his own way:

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
- The famous sonnet "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
First published in 1818.

“Ozymandias” is a Greek name for Pharaoh Ramses II, one of Egypt’s most powerful rulers. The poem describes a shattered statue in the desert, with this inscription on its pedestal. The irony is stark: the king boasts of his greatness, but nothing of his empire remains—only ruins buried in sand.

It’s amazing that ChatGPT can find this quote through a faint memory I had from over 10 years ago. I don’t remember what prompted this story, but his point was: “Code is one of the things that stay forever.” - This stuck.

All great code gets embedded, open-sourced, forked, reproduced, and all of us simply build on top of the code that’s been written by others in the past. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants.

To be the first to write certain code that’s useful for humanity is like discovering gravity. Some one like Linus Torvalds will forever be in the history books for creating Linux Operating System and Git that we use for version control.

I can’t help but be excited about being able to contribute to this industry, the world of technology, beyond just texts, marketing, and content. It feels really really good to say I can look into Github, clone a repository, change things in the VScode and commit. Maybe someday I could even be good enough to contribute to Open-Source code.

Copilot

I know there are other “vibe-coding” tools from Google's free Gemini Firestudio to Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, Replit, Devin and you name it.

But before going directly to these vibe coding tools, I think it’s SO important to understand the fundamentals.

My first experience before pursuing the path of using VScode & Github Copilot was actually Bolt. This was in April 2025, 4 months ago now. I was stuck on a half made website and the AI behind Bolt at the time couldn’t even upload a custom image for me.

I immediately cancelled the subscription. Since then all of these platforms have gotten better mostly because the LLM models have gotten better at coding - Claude 4 was a huge upgrade. But almost all of them still charge from $20 and up.

Github Copilot is free to start and it’s only $10 for more usage. It’s by far the cheapest option and it’s what all the engineers use. I think it’s a very big disadvantage for people who have never coded to use a new tool that’s premature and completely outside of their control.