Compounding is mostly talked about in terms of financial investments, but almost everything in life compounds. Even more powerfully, our skills, abi...
It is very tricky to model an authentication flow that enables a users authenticate to almost any service. In the article, I'll walk you through the process I went through, several versions I tried, and my current solution.
Everything went mostly according to plan for me, and I feel a lot more settled after moving to a new country in December 2019...
In this post, we'll see how to write workers in Go, how to gracefully shut them down. We'll also look at how to coordinate multiple workers.
2019 was a great year. I had a very specific goal, which I set at around February/March. And I made it. I just read through the post I made at the be...
Part 1: Setting up using React Native and Expo Part 2: Ditching Expo Part 3: Adding authentication with firebase Next I am going to add authenticat...
Part 1: Setting up using React Native and Expo Part 2: Ditching Expo Part 3: Adding authentication with firebase In the first part of this series...
Part 1: Setting up using React Native and Expo Part 2: Ditching Expo Part 3: Adding authentication with firebase So, for my next project, I’ve de...
In a lot of situations, we would like to be able to schedule functions in Go. While there are many current tools for doing scheduling (such as Cron)...
In this post, we will implement an event driven system in Go. We are going to imagine a fictional application where we want to send out events for wh...
Tailwind CSS is a great CSS framework. Utility first, fully customizable and just a pleasure to use. I had been seeing it around and wanted to try it...
There is only one keyword to perform loops in Go: for. The implementation is very flexible. In this article, we’ll consider the various ways to use...
Docker volumes are very useful when we need to persist data in Docker containers or share data between containers. Docker volumes are important becau...
A Good Year 2018 has been a very good year for me. I had many highs and very few lows. Interestingly, the highs were not what made 2018 a good year. ...
This article is about an experiment at Africa’s Talking on using Slack to manage our deployment process. Like many companies, we use Kubernetes ...
Serverless deployment, the intriguing topic grabbing a lot of attention from rookies and veterans alike in the tech ecosystem is finally here. In th...
Developers are usually caught in a dilemma when choosing between package managers to use in building and managing project dependencies. Two popular ...
An investment leverages knowledge and money that you currently own to generate even more money. This can become a steady recurring income where we t...
In a previous article, we talked about Docker images but we could only use a small section to talk about Docker containers. Now, let’s go deeper. D...
Docker is a wonderful tool for many things. A few of them are; As a version control system for your entire app’s operating system by storing each...
Two factor authentication (2FA) strengthens access security by requiring two methods (also referred to as factors) to verify your identity. Two fact...
Laravel Mix provides a fluent API for defining Webpack build steps for your application using several common CSS and JavaScript pre-processors. The ...
I strongly believe in my ability to learn, and that is my greatest asset. The times we live in mean that most of what we know now will soon be useles...
So, yesterday, I was sad. Very sad. I lost something I loved, and even if it made sense, it still hurt. However, in that moment, I realised something...
