A little self-reflection on an adventure I recently had About three months ago, I participated in an Xletix obstacle challenge. If you have no idea what an obstacle course entails… feel free to read more here. Most obstacle courses are usually split into three main categories which includes beginner (fun)…

Solving ancient browser issues with cloud testing platform. About a week ago, a client (let’s call him Malik) reported an issue — a very weird one, regarding a web application my team developed few years back. Malik could not click any button on the web page… yeah, that’s weird. Upon…

A quick way to manipulate CSV files using JavaScript. A few days ago, I was doing some data crunching on a web application for a client. I needed a fast, simple way to work with Comma-separated Values (CSV) files i.e. update, download and upload using the existing JavaScript libraries. The…

Yes, we need to EndSARS and more… Nigeria, a country of beauty and vast potentials. She has so much diversity in people, culture, religion, languages and seasons. Nigeria is blessed abundantly with natural resources which includes crude oil, limestone, iron ore, fertile soil excellent for agriculture. The people are lovely…

Find out who is viewing your webpage, from where and with what device. I have a simple profile page namieluss.com which I created several years ago, back when I was a studying for my Bachelor’s degree. …

A few things to consider when configuring NGINX Web Server — A brief history of the . . . Web Few decades ago, 31 years to be precise, the World Wide Web was invented by an English engineer, Tim Berners-Lee. During the course of developing the first web page, he wrote the first ever web server “httpd”. Fast forward to today, in the 21st century… it seems almost impossible to…

Just in time snippets, python image manipulation library. Photo by Daniel Marcinkowski on Unsplash Image manipulation is basically a process of transforming digitised image into a desired image. Most of the times, when people think of image manipulation, photoshop is what comes to mind. It is one of the most…

A spontaneous approach. — Firebase Function is a type of serverless architecture (also know as serverless computing). Firebase is just one among many providers (eg AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions) of serverless computing. To learn more about serverless architecture as well as how and when to use it, click here. One of the things…

The world is advancing, so is Javascript. — Javascript is a programming language widely used by web developers and tester. Every day, every hour there is a new Javascript library, framework, tool or project being created and published. As at the moment of writing this, there are about 4.4 million open source javascript repositories in GitHub. Probably before…