Published in Level Up Coding·Aug 21, 2022How to transfer a UK domain name to a different registrarFingers crossed it works for you 🫰 In the last few months, I decided to transfer my UK domain name and email hosting from 123 Reg to Hostinger. Essentially I’d gotten tired of looking at a UI which looks like it hasn’t been updated in years… and wanted to find…Domains3 min readDomains3 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jun 22, 2022One Tip for Developers — Use the Indent Rainbow PluginNo more grief when working with pesky openapi.yaml files — I recently discovered the IDE plugin Indent Rainbow whilst trying to solve a frustration I’d been experiencing when working with openapi files. With one of my clients, I’m working with a large openapi.yaml file. This file defines our API and describes each of our endpoints in minute detail - request…Programming2 min readProgramming2 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jun 2, 2022Eight Lessons I’ve Learnt in a Year of Freelancing as a Software EngineerOh, heck, where has the time gone? — It’s been just over a year since I decided to take the plunge and start freelancing. Prior to doing this, I had been working full time in various companies in London as a software engineer, i.e., a bog-standard 9 to 5. Freelancing is definitely a different way of working which…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published in Better Programming·May 5, 2022How to Color-code Your Deployment EnvironmentsAnd become a productivity guru 💯 — Background For one of the client projects that I’m working on, we have multiple deployment environments up and running. At the last count, we had five — local, development, qa, staging and production. However, with so many environments, I was finding it really difficult to differentiate between each of them as…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published in Better Programming·Apr 1, 2022Bored of Lorem Ipsum? Try These Alternative Filler Texts for Your Apps InsteadGet creative with dummy texts — We’ve all heard of ‘Lorem ipsum’ — the dummy text used as a placeholder for real content. This allows a designer or developer to concentrate on the design of a web page — without it looking empty or using distracting real copy. It has its roots in Latin — though…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Mar 8, 2022How to Take a Database Dump in MySQL WorkbenchAnd use it to copy over or duplicate your database — A database dump is essentially a backup of a database — be it the structure of the database and/or the data held within it. It consists of a bunch of SQL commands which enable you to recreate your database from scratch. Generating a database dump has multiple uses — such…MySQL3 min readMySQL3 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Jan 17, 2022How to get started with NocoDBAnd turn your database into a smart spreadsheet — What is NocoDB? NocoDB enables you to interact with your relational databases online (and locally) — acting essentially like a spreadsheet. Once set up and deployed, you can easily grant access to other people and control their permissions. Why did I want to use it? With one of my clients I would often get a similar vein of question —…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Apr 20, 2021Reflecting on building a bowling command line applicationAnd all the ways I’d write it differently today — For my first ever programming project (discounting some terrible first websites 😜) I wrote a bowling command line application (CLI). I built it using JavaScript as the language, Node.js as the runtime environment and MySQL as the database to store information about player scores. The application enables one or more…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
