While browsing some API documentation, I saw references to Base64 for passing credentials to the API. I had seen Base64 referenced a few times, but had no idea how to convert text into Base64. So, I did some digging. This post will outline how to encode (and decode) text into Base64 using the MacOS Terminal. …
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Planning Your Escape from Tutorial Hell
I’ve previously written about doing tutorial based projects and how it’s not a bad thing. What can happen, is that your project looks like everyone else’s who did the same tutorial. Again, this is not a bad thing. But you can take your learning a step further by adding features onto those projects. Here are …
Open Graph for Personal Projects
A way to make your posts stand out on social media is to include images. According to Buffer, Tweets with images can get up to 150% more retweets. So it makes sense to include some kind of visual element instead of dropping a link and calling it a day. For a long time, I wondered …
In Defense of Tutorial Hell (and How to Escape It)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Tutorial hell! It’s a terrifying, terrifying place to be as a developer Or…is it? I am on the fence on if being in tutorial hell is really as bad as the internet makes it out to be. What Is Tutorial Hell? “Tutorial hell” means participating in tutorial-based content to create projects or apps. Most …
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Queer Eye Text Effect in HTML & CSS
There’s never enough episodes of Queer Eye. 😭 To hold me over until the next season airs, I wanted to revisit the logo and see if I could recreate it in HTML and CSS. The Logo The logo effect has a couple of different elements that I need to figure out. Matching the font Picking …