Wachira

Wachira @wchr

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Wachira
articles - 32 total

How to move your .ssh generated keys to a new laptop.

So I recently changed laptops, from being a Linux user for the past 2.5 years. I was running Parrot...

Learn More 29 1Feb 16 '22

Just published the 5th Issue of my Newsletter

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Learn More 0 0May 6 '21

How do Notion Web Clipper and Instapaper work?

I read a lot of articles and when I don't have the time to through one I do three things: Save to M...

Learn More 1 0May 6 '21

How To Stream Mp3 With NodeJS To HTML Audio Tag

In this article we are going to make a simple nodejs API endpoint that streams an mp3 file hosted on...

Learn More 2 2Jan 25 '21

Just found out top 10 starred public repos in Github are written in Go.

Here

Learn More 2 1Jan 18 '21

Will Golang ever stop using their strict GOPATH path in order to code with it

When I started learning, being a beginner it was such a hustle to set it up, nowadays I am okay with...

Learn More 4 3Jan 13 '21

How to create a CLI program in Go and host it on npm

Recently I started building tools that will help me automate my app deployment process easier and che...

Learn More 9 2Dec 19 '20

APIs vs SDKs

APIs (Application Programming Interface) They are all about communications to other apps,...

Learn More 2 0Nov 2 '20

What is lossy and lossless compression

Just a quick note, this article is based on my own understanding, so my input might be limited if th...

Learn More 6 0Oct 4 '20

How to setup Dokku

Let's jump into it... fast. You got here because you want to setup Dokku and the other ways don't wor...

Learn More 14 0Aug 22 '20

What is Dokku

So what is Dokku, another bit, another TL;DR; Let's jump into it. You might know Heroku, (my opinio...

Learn More 13 1Aug 22 '20

Create API with Gin in Golang Part 3

The third part of this series is here, its actually an interesting one because we dabble with a bit o...

Learn More 12 3Aug 12 '20

Create API with Gin in Golang Part 2

Well it has been a while since I last wrote an article, so you know what I did to get motivated I rev...

Learn More 13 0Aug 12 '20

Compress images in React: React Image File Resize

Okay for this one I highly recommend, the speeds is just amazing. I loved it. I am gonna do a compari...

Learn More 25 7Jul 30 '20

Compress images in React: Browser Image Compression Libary

I recently got interested in compressing images on the client-side for a couple of reasons: Reduce...

Learn More 18 0Jul 30 '20

I keep on forgetting how to squash commits

Its been a while since I wrote something, been busy but anyway this post is a bit different. It's gon...

Learn More 0 0May 8 '20

Create API with Gin in Golang Part 1

I just started learning to Golang recently, and I must say the Golang is not that difficult. To fully...

Learn More 70 3Feb 8 '20

Archive subdomains for web application

What is your question/issue? So I am building an application with Node. It's a consignment...

Learn More 7 2Jan 5 '20

How to build Electron apps with React.

Introduction I have always had a deep interest in writing Desktop applications. What was h...

Learn More 228 11Dec 28 '19

How to write Javascript in ES6 with Nodejs

You building an application with React and Node. You write your React code in ES6 but when you visit...

Learn More 59 0Oct 2 '19

Join the FPL DEV classic league

I started watching soccer I think a couple of years ago. EPL has always been a great league, it is co...

Learn More 9 1Sep 26 '19

How to add a dark mode to your React web app

We are currently living in a dark mode in everything era. Most apps nowadays come with a switch eithe...

Learn More 211 11Aug 16 '19

How to create and run cron jobs in Node

You ever want to automate certain tasks on your app, saving you the hustle of doing them manually suc...

Learn More 42 1Jul 31 '19

Getting started with Next part 1

Hey Coder, I blogged about why you should learn Next in this blog. For this part of the series, I wil...

Learn More 10 0Jul 24 '19

What to do when productivity hits level 0?

I have been working on a personal project, I tried to continue its development today but it seems my...

Learn More 7 4Jul 7 '19

How does Dev.to give rich link image previews of articles with no cover images?

This is an article whose author did not provide a cover image but Dev.to is able to generate an imag...

Learn More 8 3Jul 7 '19

Why you should learn Next.JS

Next.JS is a javascript framework that allows developers to create server rendered react web apps als...

Learn More 44 6Jul 2 '19

Why you should document your code.

Brief History A year ago I built an e-commerce API with Flask and consumed it with React o...

Learn More 10 2Jun 23 '19

How to host your Node app in a Docker Container on Heroku

Introduction This is the third part of the series for Docker meets NodeJS. We got to add...

Learn More 83 16Jun 16 '19

Which programming language did you first learn? 😁

A post by wachira_Dev

Learn More 4 3Jun 9 '19