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Miss me with the jargons, please!

It had been a month at my first full-time job out of university and I was completely lost at every meeting. I remember vividly coming out of one meeting and feeling like a foreigner walking out of their first ESL (English as a Second Language) class. What are…

New job, who dis?

New job, who dis? So it’s been a while -rightfully so. Man’s been busy. I know that sounds cliche but I have been up to a lot. Let me explain. So I have this baby that we birthed late 2019 that has kept me busy. No, I’m not talking about a tiny human, I’m…

What’s CORS? Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. That makes a lot of sense right? No? It doesn’t mean much to me either. But let’s use a hypothetical to drive home the point of what it is; or rather, what it allows you to do. So you discover this awesome remote API…

Which protocol to pick for your smart home

I was talking to a buddy the other day and I had passed a comment about how Google blows Alexa out of the water in the voice assistant category but somehow our conversation quickly derailed into smart homes. “You mean you allow those devices in your home? They…

How REST makes GraphQL look so simple

API. We hear that acronym thrown around a lot. What is it? It stands for Application Program Interface. 😕. Ok, so what does it mean? Well it is supposed to provide developers with some programmatic access to a proprietary software application Whether you are…