Dropbox provides file storage that syncs between your devices, and their API gives you access to that. Let’s check it out!
The Backblaze B2 Storage API, built on top of Backblaze’s cloud storage, lets you access and manage your buckets. Let’s check it out!
The Twitter API lets you access tweets, users who tweet, metadata, manipulate lists, and more. Let’s check it out!
Becoming an Erlang developer has not always been easy, but over the last couple of years I’ve learned a few ways to tame the beast. It doesn’t need to become any other language, but there’s definitely room for improving the developer experience!
Concatenating strings and binaries in Erlang can get ugly quick. Let’s make it easier.
We all have our favorite web browser with our favorite extensions loaded, but have you ever considered writing your own? In the past few months I’ve created a couple extensions to suit my own needs. Here’s what I’ve learned!
An API is an Application Programming Interface, but what’s that really mean? In a more practical sense, it’s one programmer hiding the (possibly messy) details of their own code behind a nice veneer, in order to make it easier for another programmer to consume it in their own program.
Are you a Mac user and .NET fan? Did you know there’s a native VS app now? Writing tests is important, so I decided to try out NUnit in @vs4mac.
These “hacks” for Ghost add some cool features to any blog, and should be usable with any theme.
On past projects, when I needed multiple LEDs, I just connected each to its own GPIO pin. I knew the current only worked in one direction, but I didn’t think to take advantage of that fact. Charlieplexing is a method for arranging multiple LEDs so as to use the minimal number of pins possible.
If you’re unfamiliar with Git’s “alias” feature, it provides a way to create shortcuts for other Git commands, which can save you a lot of time. They’re easy to setup and maintain too. Let’s see how.
There’s a feature of every GitHub repo that in my experience doesn’t get a ton of love, and that’s the wiki. In all fairness, I’m not sure how much love it deserves - it’s sorely lacking in features. But did you know it’s a separate repo that you can clone and manipulate locally?
It’s common to compare two objects in C# for equality, such as for a save operation. Let’s take a closer look at how we define what equal means.
Let’s recreate the Simon game of the 1980s using a Raspberry Pi and Sonic Pi!