As a developer, the odds are you have probably heard about React, the modern JavaScript UI library that lots of companies are using to power their applications. Some developers believe React is complicated, mostly because of the terms and technologies you usually hear associated with it — JSX, Webpack, Redux…

I recently experienced an issue on a web application I was working on where users who took photos directly from their mobile devices had it rotated 90° once it was uploaded and put in an <img> tag. It turns out the reason for this is the EXIF (exchangeable image file…

Creating and managing Cron Jobs used to be one of the most dreaded tasks for me when I started coding. Mostly ‘cause I started out building simple apps in PHP on shared hosts. …

I recently made the decision to start tracking what I learned everyday, mostly inspired by a tweet I saw about a week ago (week ago). I didn’t start right away cause I was scared I wouldn’t be able to sustain it, or have things to report that I learned…

This also makes our supported currencies: NGN, GHS, KES, USD & GBP — TL;DR: Selar is now available for Ghanaian and Kenyan merchants. For a little over a year, we at Selar have been working on making selling in Nigeria as seamless as possible. We have helped thousands of merchants get their products online and reach a larger audience. We have worked closely…

Some weeks ago, I decided I wanted to get my PVC (Permanent Voter’s Card) to vote in the 2019 Nigerian General Elections. I believe taking a step is better than doing nothing. No revolution ever started with people folding their hands and resigning to their fates, right? I almost gave…

When trying to optimise our applications, one of the first things we look to is caching. Caching involves storing data in a high performance store (many times temporarily) so such data can be retrieved faster at a later time. Redis is an efficient key-value data store that has become very…

Today was tough. I was in church when the news came in on the group chat. I thought it was a joke. I mean, he was laughing with us just some days ago (or was it weeks?), he can’t be gone. It wasn’t till I got home hours later that…

Hey guys, remember growing up in a Nigerian home and watching Mount Zion movies? The likes of ‘Perilous Times’, ‘Blood on the Altar’ and “House Of David”. Movies with suspense, drama and sometimes a little bit of action. …