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A fun and interactive way to help toddlers learn to spell words, recognize letters, and develop motor skills, all through play!

I tried to setup an MCP for Jira in my Cursor IDE, and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was.

I tried to automate learning to read using the Phonetic method. In this article, I tell about my journey into world of phonics, twin words, and magic Es.

Anyone who has spent time with a Toddler knows how difficult it can be to get them to listen. I've been working on this activity that helps my Toddler pay attention.

Using LEFT JOIN in SQL means you may get duplicate instances of a column value across rows, which makes pagination difficult. But does it have to be?

Only relevant code and assets you need for an application should be in a bundle, and no more.

Does your Business have a .NET codebase? Did you know that You can spin up an Administrator CLI that lets you write C# expressions using the service classes and methods you know so well.

I'm planning a Musical about the story of Elijah, to be presented by the Children at my Church, and I am so excited about this.

OpenAPI does not directly support mapping enum keys to values, so if we had an C# enum:

Let’s say I’m building a Library codebase, with domains: Books, Readers, and Borrows.

When loggers in my apps pipe logs to a file, I make sure they’re usually in the format:

Key-Tracking — A cache-invalidation strategy for organizations

Assert that your Registered DI Services, actually work!

Have you ever needed to set a value in ConfigurationManager.AppSettings e.g. ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Add("foo", "value") ?

I recently learnt that a *.csproj file that uses:

This is my preferred method of handling errors in ASP.NET projects. Perhaps, you’ll find it useful, or maybe you’ll find holes in it and…

Migrate your legacy csproj files to the new SDK format in 8 steps

Make your legacy *.csproj files cleaner and more reliable

What I’ve learnt from extracting OpenAPI schema from ASP.NET projects

Using a series of X threads

I setup a monorepo where both .NET and NodeJS workspaces could reside.

What if you could:

Listen, good logging will save you a ton of time and energy when finding out why something happened. When bad things happen, and you know…

Managing Software Unpredictability improves your tests

So you have AWS Lambda in production, using one of Node 14 or 16 versions, and you want to upgrade to the new Node@18 Runtimes?

I found TypeScript challenges on GitHub when I wanted to improve my TypeScript skills. Before then, I knew basic typescript such as

A dumping ground for code that does not fit anywhere

I like Storybook because it provides visual documentation for my components, and let’s me build them in isolation, encouraging good coding…

Handling styles that only show up at runtime

Based on a conversation about how to tell where DI is necessary, touching on topics like Side Effects and Function Predictability.

In a codebase, everything is either depended on or depending on something else. This can create resistance to change. What’s the D in…

How do I pick the right abstractions? Are there rules that can be followed?

without restarting in PowerShell

A guide to setting up the UnifiedTransform project on Windows 10 without Docker, in 2021.

How to spot phishing attacks

What we learnt before, during and after

I got a Dell XPS 15 Laptop recently. It is a thing of beauty, except when the Touchpad just stops responding, and only click-and-drag mode…

Imagine you’re tasked to scale a tailor shop to provide same-day sewing and pickup of any dress. How would you do it? Here’s how I’d do it.

I remember the way her voice rang out when she was excited.

The Romans had a deity called Janus, a two-headed figure who could look into the future and the past at the same time. He was the god of…

Especially in dotnet core 3.0

Today, I faced the nastiest bug 🐜 in my code, when upgrading a Web API project from 2.2. to 3.0.

From an existing one in .NET Core

Error NETSDK1045: .NET Standard 2.1, .NET Core 3.0

CreatedAt, UpdatedAt, DeletedAt, CreatedBy, …, DeletedBy

A service I’d like to build, or see get built

CSV too.

Just one of many possible errors

An open rant to startups, from a wide-eyed Customer

Everyone else calls them Lists

Did you mistakenly install mail-in-a-box on an existing server?

… with the help of WSL

For conquering languages

I’d known for a while that I owed myself a visit to the Optician.

A guide to setting up the UnifiedTransform project without Docker.

Following my previous article on WSL,

I just began using the Windows Sub-system for Linux, and …

It’s not working, what should I do?

As a child, I loved stories. My mum is a wonderful story teller, and till today, I have vivid images of places I’ve never been to, and…

In this post, I’ll be asking a question I’ve pondered over, many times.

and ESP8266 Module

Today, I had to run do some serious number crunching, and I couldn’t use my local machine, because I needed it to work, so I spun up a…

Recently, I was introduced to a tool that helps me control my Arduino MEGA board with JavaScript.

For scheduling tasks in unix systems, we have the cron tool … We can schedule a task by running

Sometimes people ask me programming questions, and I am driven to explain it in the simplest possible way, because that’s how I’d have…

This is a common assignment, test and even exam question in Computer Science classes, to write a C program to list all prime numbers…

This is the easiest way I know to write a C program that outputs “Hello World!”:

A few days ago, I discovered this dev.to article, shared on Andela’s Slack’s #random channel, which gives you a dark mode on your Slack…

Assuming the story of creation is true, I like to think some of Adam’s first questions were “what is this world?” and “why am I here?”.

Are there things you suck at? I know a lot of things I’m not very good at, and I mean it when I say, “a lot”.

A web app I work on kept breaking in a funny way on the version 69.0.3497.92 of Chrome.

It’s 2018, and every business is applying the choicest parts of tech to improve their chances with their markets. Everyone’s also talking…

🔥🔥🔥 Including Relationships and Deferred Execution. 🔥🔥🔥

Composing Query Builders with Functions 😎

On how to be employable

Living with a stutter as a productive member of society

Internet Explorer Woes

How to not shoot yourself in the foot with table names

Node Tips and Tricks for faster APIs (1)

Node Tips and Tricks for faster APIs (2)

Node Tips and Tricks for faster APIs (3)

Yeah, gamble … yes, like NairaBet

A tale of DLLs, routers, functions and components

Dear Nigerian,

I stumbled on the S.I.M.P.L.E programming language yesterday and I found myself excited and intrigued.

Business Insider is an advertising supported site, so if you use a browser like Opera, which tries to block ads, you’ll get a warning popup…

Without a Comic Book Reader

In the first part of this series, we looked at the characteristics of open source that makes it thrive, and saw that openness and…

When building JavaScript modules, you may have to transpile/compile them with build tools like browserify, or babel.

I ran into this issue today, while dealing with operations on a 20MB JSON string in a PHP application I was building.

It’s easy, and I’ll try to keep this short, I promise.

I have been struggling with the problem of ensuring governments work. My search has brought me here, to a concept I know and love — Open…

In this tutorial, we’ll install a flarum, a next-generation online discussion forum app on a Mac.

I may have heard about Dunnet before, but I first noticed it in some dark corner of the Random slack channel at the office. It’s a…

The honest opinion of a humble Nigerian Worker

I’ve been working for a while with PHP, using Laravel, and having started from the bottom, I must say, I am excited to be here!!!

I’m probably telling you what you already know, and if you don’t, it’s not too late to find out…

This debate is a bit like:

Enjoy!

Today, while playing with the Sequelize ORM, I saw that I was able to get a unique name from the errors thrown by its operations.

I was working on a Vue JS app that contained a vue2-dropzone component, which providers a beautiful and configurable file-picker component.

The scariest ones are the ones who are right.

I stumbled upon the Electron.NET package on GitHub, on Friday November 10th, 2017, and told myself I’d definitely do stuff with it this…

Humanity’s most remarkable achievements can usually be traced back to moments of epiphany by individuals throughout history.

I got assigned another IE issue today. A page with vue components wasn’t working well on Internet Explorer.

Some time back, I posted a tiny challenge in the JavaScript channel on Devcenter Square, and in a few minutes, there were awesome replies.

I am new to using a Mac, so forgive me if you spot something I should have known better.

Update: Now supports asp.net core 2.1 apps

Originally published 17 Jan, 2017

Decades of human labor at companies since the Industrial Revolution began has shown that working with humans is extremely difficult.

So he’s on cloud 7 and it’s totally awesome … everything works as can be expected from such a cloud.

Exactly three weeks ago, I created a barter to trade access to a google drive folder filled with a few books I love and enjoy.

Hey, I have this idea …

I’ve always been a firm believer in task delegation … That’s why I use bundles like grunt and gulp 😂

Recently, I have been having Eureka moments more and more …

Tales of Alice in wonderland still fascinate me. I think the idea is insane and I love it all the same.

We as humans like to think we are very important. We think we are the center of GOD’s creation. If that’s what you think, think again.

Five blind men were taken to the zoo to “see” an elephant. They were each allowed to feel the elephant, and describe it.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. That’s a fact. In fact, unless you are racist, sexist, or the modern equivalent of the…

If you’re a part of a team, whatever your goals as one are, then this article is written for you.

First off, Doyin is my colleague at Wakanow … I read this article yesterday, and showed her. She said her brother would be interested ……

Me: Hey Dude, what are you working on for your research project?

I had just built the perfect solution. It was beautiful to look at (and this is totally not a biased judgement) and worked pretty well. It…

Last week, I wrote this article about my opinion and that of Nigerians I know about the Mars Trip by SpaceX. While I still believe it’s an…

When I first saw the news, it was while flipping through flipboard in a Danfo on my way to work in the morning. I was so excited, my fellow…