The Melancholy of Tech — I am the designer and art is my craft. I conjure beauty, from a canvas of nought. I seek perfection, anything less is dirt. Time is but a sham, a relic long defunct. Dear designer, giving life to your art, unaware of time, takes life away from the very art…

Prerequisites: Sendy auth is a vue js plugin, therefore it is assumed that the reader has a basic understanding of javascript & vuejs. Dependencies: Sendy auth uses axios internally to send http requests and js-sha1 to encrypt passwords when sending the requests. Getting Started Building authentication into our applications is one of…

In my career as a software developer, I have interacted with a number of individuals — some radiate off brilliance, others are full of potential. Often the former turns out to be the employer and the latter the employee. However, finding this perfect match is an uphill task with the…

disclaimer: Osmose is a php package created and maintained by “yours truly” so bias is safely assumed. prerequisites: The reader should have a basic understanding of laravel & eloquent Laravel web framework has quickly risen to become the de facto standard framework for building PHP web applications. Amongst its many…

disclaimer: Api-x is an npm package created and maintained by “yours truly” so bias is safely assumed. prerequisites: The reader should have a basic understanding of javascript, vuejs and vuex. When dealing with state management in our Vue applications, we often desire a simple way to define our accessors, mutators…

NB: This tutorial assumes the reader understands the basics of namespacing and beginner level OOP. Africa’s Talking is a mobile technology company that offers developers integrated mobile APIS to simplify the processes involved in interacting with SMS/ USSD / Voice and Airtime. In order to get started, head over to…

I have been developing software a little under 6 years and its been a journey of nothing but discovery, every single step of the way. Starting off as an aspiring game developer, I gradually shifted interest into the more practical and more promising entreprise application development. Over the course of…