Playing around with Postman

I have known of Postman for a while now - it's a tool you can use to explore and test APIs. I just never got down to using it much. That changed quite a bit in the last week or so. I started playing around with it while

Create a Content extension for Canva using Flask

Saw this Quick Start guide on Canva's developer portal that walks you through creating a content extension for Canva's users. It uses Node.js and Express.js as the server backend. I wanted to replicate this example using Python and Flask as the server. What is

How to deploy a Flask app to Digital Ocean's app platform

I recently went throught 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 atleast me revisiting this later). Part 1: Setup the environment for the Flask app Step 1:

How to add a Twitter CTA at the end of each article on Ghost CMS?

I recently saw a tweet that it's a good idea to have a CTA at the end of each article. In fact, Daniel Vassallo argued that the CTA should be pointing to Twitter instead of an email list. So, how do I do that in Ghost? Being new

How I Automated Markdown and HTML Link Generation for My Ship30for30 Essays

I had written a bunch of short essays as part of Ship30for30 challenge over the summer. Now that I was redoing my website, I thought it would be nice if I could have a collection of those links here. I had the titles and the URLs for all of them