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Now that I am playing around a bit more frequently with APIs, especially Twitter’s v2 API, and Airtable’s API, I have found myself playing around a lot more with Postman.

I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs.

Saw this Quick Start guide on Canva’s developer portal that walks you through creating a content extension for Canva’s users.

I recently went through the process to put my side project howbigisthebaby.io on Digital Ocean’s new app platform, and wanted to document it in case anyone else found it helpful (or at least me revisiting this later).

When you work for someone else, the first sentence of your answer to the question - “what do you do?”

Collection of tools, scripts, and utilities I have written to simplify my life.

I recently saw a tweet that it's a good idea to have a CTA at the end of each article.

Documenting the steps I followed to apply for OCI recently.

I had written a bunch of short essays as part of Ship30for30 challenge over the summer.

December 29, 2020 Alright, typing this for the first time in Noteplan 3.

Podcasts Download the MP3 for the Podcast (most provide them on their websites) Save this file in Dropbox (I have it connected to my Otter account), or manually drop it into Otter using their web interface.

It took me some time.

As a developer, every day we interact with remote APIs and web servers.

If you’re into building skills, you’re probably familiar with Alexa Skills Kit’s Command Line Interface, which lets you create and manage your skill using the CLI, like updating the interaction model, and the backend code.

Last week, I was given an opportunity to give a talk at NYC Developer Evangelists Meetup and I chose to talk about what it is like being a Developer Evangelist, basing it off the lessons I’ve managed to learn in the last 9 months being a Developer Evangel…

My wife gifted me six weeks of stand-up comedy classes for my 35th birthday.

We were just about getting ready to warm up for the practice game over the weekend when I had an interesting conversation with one of the team mates I actually didn't know quite well.

Here’s the Apple script that will get the track information from Spotify for the current track.

Talks Webinars Twitch Talk 2018 How I Used Alexa and Twilio to Wish My Dad Happy Birthday A personal project combining Alexa and Twilio to collect and play birthday messages for my dad.

Just setup Ghost on this website (ajot.me).

We are expecting our first baby soon and like most first-time parents, we signed up for a bunch of pregnancy tracking apps that tell you how big your baby is each week.

Attempting to follow a food recipe on the internet is like playing a game of Minesweeper.

Flipism Side A and Side B No.

Been meaning to write this post for my future self, who’s invariably going to forget the steps to set up Django on a new machine.

I can touch type.

I have come to realize that "being lazy" is a perfectly legit reason to learn a bit of programming.

We were just about getting ready to warm up for a practice cricket match over the weekend when I had an interesting conversation with one of the teammates I actually didn’t know quite well.