How To’s

These how to guides each solve one problem from start to finish. Most come from issues I hit at work and wrote down.

For example, clearing Git commit history is a frequent read. Also, fetching an API into WordPress helps site owners. Then a CI/CD pipeline in AWS covers deploys.

41 articles

06/10/2023 2 min read

Implementing Google Fonts in React Native App

Want to make your React Native apps look nice and user-friendly? Google Fonts is your best buddy! This comprehensive guide aims to simplify the integration of…
12/04/2023 3 min read

Building a React Native App with Cached API Calls

Learn how to improve your app's performance and reduce server load by caching API calls in your React…
16/03/2023 3 min read

Setup CI-CD Pipeline in AWS

Executive Summary: Manual builds and deploys slow releases and invite configuration mistakes. This post walks AWS CI/CD setup…
01/03/2023 2 min read

Freelancer’s Nightmare: The Struggle of Getting Paid After Project Delivery

Discover a unique solution to combat payment delays and encourage clients to fulfill financial commitments using an innovative…
10/02/2023 4 min read

Create A Serverless Webservice Using DynamoDB and Lambda Function

Executive Summary: Paying for idle servers for a simple API is wasteful when traffic is bursty. This post…
06/05/2022 1 min read

Fetch API and store to JSON file in WordPress

At times when we have limited access to an API endpoint where the get calls are restricted to…
02/05/2022 7 min read

How to Add jQuery to a Next.js App

Install jQuery from npm and load it only in the browser: a dynamic import inside useEffect, next/dynamic with…
01/05/2022 1 min read

How to remove HTML comments in VS Code without extension

Try this regex At times we push the wrong update to the repository. In spite of fixing the…
29/03/2022 2 min read

Useful Secrets in Windows 11

Windows 11 brings several big and small UI as well as functional improvements. The interface is more refined…
22/03/2022 1 min read

Delete all commit records from Github without deleting the source

Do a temporary checkout git checkout --orphan temp Commit the changes git commit -am "cleaning" Delete the branch…
21/03/2022 3 min read

Install MongoDB6 Ubuntu LTS

MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database system that is used by many companies around the world. It offers…
14/01/2022 2 min read

Fetch API And Store To JSON File In WordPress Every 15 Minutes

In this previous post we managed to fetch the endpoint and store the response in a JSON file…
16/07/2021 1 min read

Block RESTAPI access to your WordPress site
05/01/2021 1 min read

Move All WordPress Posts To Trash

If you need to move all WordPress posts to trash, you can use a custom function and the…