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How i almost destroyed my career in software tech

This is an expose about all of the things i did that made it almost possible for my career in software development to hit the lowest point…

Dec 17, 2024

How i almost destroyed my career in software tech

Dec 17, 2024

I write and think of code much differently now than i used to

This article is inspired by another article with a similar title. I will be stating the things that have changed in the way i write code…

Sep 12, 2024

I write and think of code much differently now than i used to

Sep 12, 2024

When to safely and reliably deploy regular expressions in your codebase.

Regular expressions have long been demonised for being totally unreliable and tacky solutions which should be avoided at all cost in most…

Aug 29, 2024

When to safely and reliably deploy regular expressions in your codebase.

Aug 29, 2024

How to keep learning well as a life-long creative.

When you started out as a beginner in your journey as a software engineer, you were interested and entranced by what was possible and…

Aug 24, 2024

How to keep learning well as a life-long creative.

Aug 24, 2024

An attempt at a unified theory on software engineering

Recently, i have been musing over a thought (a question more correctly) that i have had for a very long time. I have been writing and…

Jul 7, 2024

An attempt at a unified theory on software engineering

Jul 7, 2024

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Stackademic

Indirection and Abstraction: When to correctly extract code for reuse.

One thing i have observed when some software engineers talk about “abstraction” (and even mention the term while making a point) is that…

May 12, 2024

Indirection and Abstraction: When to correctly extract code for reuse.

May 12, 2024

Introducing react-busser: Designing for better application data flow in ReactJS — Part 2

Hey there! It’s been a minute since Part 1 right ? I apologize that it has taken this long to get back to it. However, we are here now and…

Apr 22, 2024

Introducing react-busser: Designing for better application data flow in ReactJS — Part 2

Apr 22, 2024

Hey newbie, as you learn to code, please re-invent the wheel a lot!

Most software engineers will say: “Don’t re-invent the wheel, it’s a waste of time!”. Yet, they still want to compete favourably on the…

Jan 3, 2024

Hey newbie, as you learn to code, please re-invent the wheel a lot!

Jan 3, 2024

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Bootcamp

Should we improve full-stack DX at all cost just so as to improve UX as well ?

This is a question that has been on my mind for a while. By the way DX stands for Developer Experience while UX stands for User Experience…

Nov 30, 2023

Should we improve full-stack DX at all cost just so as to improve UX as well ?

Nov 30, 2023

Work Planning and managing the cost of change when building digital products (software)

Hello there, it’s been some time since my last article. Well, that’s because lately my head has been filled with lots of writing topics…

Oct 6, 2023

Work Planning and managing the cost of change when building digital products (software)

Oct 6, 2023

Best Practices: Debunking the myth of good and bad around objective software code design and…

There are a good number of things in software engineering that are truly subjective. For example, the debate about: tabs vs. spaces (code…

Jul 19, 2023

Best Practices: Debunking the myth of good and bad around objective software code design and…

Jul 19, 2023

The Jollof PHP framework story

On the December 3rd 2016, 2 days after my birthday and on a very cool evening, sitting on the couch of my living room and wondering whether…

Jun 16, 2023

The Jollof PHP framework story

Jun 16, 2023

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Better Programming

Defensive Programming and the Use of TypeScript

TypeScript is helpful at scale, but after using it for several years, it became evident that it’s not sufficient on its own

Jul 29, 2024

Defensive Programming and the Use of TypeScript

Jul 29, 2024

The many things that using and relying on CSS frameworks alone won’t teach you

CSS is a very declarative and expressive yet easily misunderstood and misused styling language. I have often maintained that CSS is easy to…

May 2, 2023

The many things that using and relying on CSS frameworks alone won’t teach you

May 2, 2023

Designing software tests that actually help — Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the series! If you haven’t read Part 1, Please do so before moving on to reading this. Firstly, i would like to…

Dec 19, 2022

Designing software tests that actually help — Part 2

Dec 19, 2022

Decisions that matter broadly in software development

The ideal software with the best PX (people experience) to ever be created will be one without any real and visible effort put into the…

Dec 8, 2022

Decisions that matter broadly in software development

Dec 8, 2022

Introducing react-busser: Designing for better application data flow in ReactJS — Part 1

In October 2018, i gave a talk titled State design for complex web applications about how application state was being badly designed and…

Jul 13, 2022

Introducing react-busser: Designing for better application data flow in ReactJS — Part 1

Jul 13, 2022

Get better at troubleshooting and debugging software

Errors, by their nature, are basically reproducible and expository yet vaguely indicative (I do blame translator writers for this in part—…

Feb 5, 2022

Get better at troubleshooting and debugging software

Feb 5, 2022

A light intro to instrumentation on the web frontend

When we talk about instrumentation, we are simply talking about the process of including code that will collect information about execution…

Jan 8, 2022

A light intro to instrumentation on the web frontend

Jan 8, 2022

The GraphQL specification + best-practices: The quest for standardisation

It’s no news that GraphQL is transport-agnostic. There are different type of transports available (on the web or any other platform similar…

Dec 7, 2021

The GraphQL specification + best-practices: The quest for standardisation

Dec 7, 2021

Ifeora Okechukwu

Ifeora Okechukwu

I like puzzles, mel-phleg, software engineer. Very involved in building useful web applications of now and the future.

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