Henry Bassey
6 min readNov 25 2024
Developer marketing doesn't exist... without DevX
Your developer marketing is loud, but your DevX is silent—and failing. Here’s how to turn lousy developer experience into your strongest selling point.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readNov 05 2024
SearchGPT vs. Google: Can SearchGPT overtake Google in search?
SearchGPT vs. Google: Is a shift underway? Could user demand for conversational AI mark a turning point for Google’s dominance? Let's discuss!
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Henry Bassey
6 min readOct 21 2024
How to Find the Right SaaS Content Agency (Top 5)
Target your audience with the right SaaS content agency by asking these 9 questions. Find out if your business needs developer-focused content or B2B marketing strategies.
Valeria Hernandez
6 min readOct 08 2024
Five strategies to avoid writer’s block in technical writing
Struggling with writer’s block in technical writing? Explore five actionable strategies to regain your flow and keep your technical documentation on track.
Henry Bassey
6 min readSep 23 2024
AI in search: Why CMOs must shift down from top-of-funnel content
Learn why top-of-funnel content is becoming obsolete in the age of AI and how focusing on deeper, product-driven content can increase conversions.
Akshat Virmani
6 min readSep 15 2024
Leading Low-Code Documentation Tools for Technical Writers
Discover the top 6 low-code documentation tools that simplify the documentation process for technical writers. Learn about key features, benefits, and challenges.
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Akshat Virmani
6 min readSep 07 2024
Git vs. SVN: 5 Reasons to try SVN version control system
Git vs. SVN: Discover 5 compelling reasons SVN could be better than Git for your projects.
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Akshat Virmani
6 min readAug 31 2024
Pros and Cons of Serverless Computing
Understand the pros and cons of serverless computing, from cost savings and scalability to vendor lock-in and cold start delays. Find out if it's right for your app.
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How to add GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Learn how to add GitHub Copilot to Visual Studio Code for AI-assisted coding. Boost productivity, reduce errors, and get intelligent code suggestions in seconds.
Akshat Virmani
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Valeria Hernandez
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Documentation metrics: Measuring the value of documentation (w/ Bob Watson)
Uncover Bob Watson's strategies for defining documentation goals, choosing effective metrics, and understanding the data behind them.
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Akshat Virmani
6 min readAug 09 2024
Common API Integration Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Discover common API integration challenges and practical solutions. Learn how to optimize testing, debugging, and security to streamline your API processes efficiently.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readAug 06 2024
Steps to creating an outstanding content outline for Technical Writers
Transform your technical writing with a solid content outline. Follow our detailed guide to create structured, informative, and engaging content.
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Valeria Hernandez
6 min readJul 26 2024
Top Job Posting Boards for Developers (Hint: Not LinkedIn)
Discover top job boards beyond LinkedIn for tech roles. Explore job sites like DevRel Careers, Otta, and Built-In for tailored job listings and industry insights.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readJul 22 2024
A guide to creating a content brief for technical writers [+template]
Learn how to create an effective content brief for technical writers, including a free template and practical examples.
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Valeria Hernandez
6 min readJul 10 2024
Top 5 online mentorship platforms for technical writers
Discover the best mentorship platforms for technical writers. Learn how mentoring can enhance your career.
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William Imoh
6 min readJul 09 2024
What You Should Know About Developer Marketing In 2024
Uncover effective developer marketing strategies that resonate with technical audiences and drive business growth.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readJun 29 2024
These 4 data platforms will transform how you handle data!
Transform your data management with these innovative data platforms for alternative data, semantic layers, cloud warehouses, and automation.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readJun 26 2024
Case Study: How Mia-Platform Achieved 5X Time to Publish and Improved Lead Quality with Hackmamba
Learn how Mia-Platform's partnership with Hackmamba led to 5X faster publishing and better lead quality, optimizing content strategy and resource allocation.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readJun 24 2024
Not-too-good experiences with agencies? Use this framework
Not satisfied with agencies? Use our 7-point framework to ensure better outcomes.
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Akshat Virmani
6 min readJun 20 2024
Web Scraping using Node.js and Puppeteer
Step-by-step tutorial on using Node.js and Puppeteer to scrape web data, including setup, code examples, and best practices.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readJun 15 2024
How to create “differentiated” SEO content: The Hackmamba's approach
Learn how to create differentiated SEO content with Hackmamba's approach. Discover tactics like focusing on MOFU/BOFU content and JTBD tutorials to stand out.
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William Imoh
6 min readJun 10 2024
Cultivating Developer Enablement on Composable Platforms
Learn how developer enablement can create a supportive, resource-rich environment for developers, leading to faster integration, innovation, and adoption of your composable platform.
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William Imoh
6 min readMay 27 2024
Top 5 places to post developer content
Discover the top 5 places to post your developer content for maximum visibility and engagement.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readMay 18 2024
Can a developer marketing agency help you win the dev community?
This article breaks down the pros and cons to help you choose the best developer marketing partner for your specific needs and budget.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readMay 12 2024
How to generate ideas for technical content in 25 minutes
Learn efficient methods to brainstorm technical content ideas, boosting engagement and conversions.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readMay 04 2024
What's the big deal about user-generated content (UGC)?
Learn why user-generated content is such a big deal today and a faster way to incorporate it into your strategy.
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William Imoh
6 min readApr 26 2024
When to hire a freelancer or a full-time technical writer
Are you stuck on whether to hire a freelance or full-time technical writer? Here's what we've learned from experience and how you can choose.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readApr 19 2024
How to create engaging developer community content
Here's how to create content for your developer community and keep engagement going.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readApr 15 2024
How to do content distribution on a budget
Amplify your content reach with these practical content distribution tips without breaking the bank. Here's how to distribute your technical content.
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Nabeelah Junaid
6 min readApr 05 2024
5 Free Courses to Master Technical Writing - 2024
Learn technical writing with these free courses specially curated for you.
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William Imoh
6 min readMar 29 2024
How do I grow an engaging software product community?
Stuck on how to grow your virtual community? Here are 7 practical strategies to grow and engage a developer or product community.
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Chidi Eze
6 min readMar 21 2024
Alternatives to Docusaurus for Software Product Documentation
Finding Docusaurus problematic or inadequate? Upgrade your documentation experience with these alternatives.
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Fatima Olasunkanmi-Ojo
6 min readMar 15 2024
Top 5 Technical Writing Communities of 2024
Grow your technical writing career by joining these vibrant communities.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readMar 08 2024
Google's Core Update: Is AI Content Doomed? A Guide for Content Creators
With Google's recent update to penalize mass low-quality content, what does it mean for creators and AI-generated content?
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Henry Bassey
6 min readMar 02 2024
5 Resources for Learning About Composability and Composable Architectures
Curious about the emerging 'Composable' software space? This post discusses 5 sources offering extensive resources, including tutorials, certifications, and expert insights.
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CESS
6 min readFeb 23 2024
How to Improve Page Load Speed and Response Times: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn comprehensive techniques to increase page loading speed on your website.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readFeb 17 2024
Fractional Director of Content Marketing: When and Why You Need One
In this in-depth article, learn everything you need to know before hiring a fractional content director to drive your GTM success.
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Chidi Eze
6 min readFeb 09 2024
Top 5 Open-Source Documentation Development Platforms of 2024
This article examines the top five tools for developing documentation, highlighting their unique qualities to provide a more comprehensive understanding of each platform's strengths and weaknesses.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readFeb 03 2024
Top 5 Fears of Small Teams Using a Technical Writing Agency [And Expert Recommendations]
Discover effective strategies for collaborating with technical writing agencies.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readJan 23 2024
How to Audit & Refresh Your Underperforming Content with Google Search Console
Explore practical steps to refresh your website's content and blog without a big budget.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readDec 18 2023
4 Lessons from Adopting a User-Writer Documentation Approach and Why You Should, Too
Can your user be your best documentation writer? Here are four invaluable lessons from adopting a user-writer documentation approach.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readNov 11 2023
Your Audience Doesn't Matter, Sometimes
Discover a compelling narrative that challenges the norm of catering to audience expectations. Learn how defying conventional wisdom can lead to innovation and establish you as an expert in your field.
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Emeni Deborah
6 min readOct 24 2023
Demystifying AWS VPC Network Firewall using Terraform
Learn how VPCs work in this insightful post. What is Amazon VPC? Leverage Terraform to manage a VPC provisioned on AWS seamlessly.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readOct 17 2023
The Future of Content Is Collaborative, Not Competitive. Here's Why
Dive into a transformative approach to content creation in a competitive digital world. Discover how shifting from rivalry to collaboration in content strategies not only enhances user experience but opens a realm of creativity and innovation, carving a pathway to overcome challenges posed by AI and homogeneous content.
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William Imoh
6 min readOct 09 2023
Documentation Overload: Can Comprehensive Documentation Hinder Product Adoption?
Is more always better? Learn how to avoid overloading your product documentation to help developers reach their goals faster and reduce frustration.
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Nabeelah Junaid
6 min readOct 02 2023
Top 7 Technical Writing Newsletters You Should Subscribe To in 2023
Discover the top newsletters every technical writer should subscribe to master the art of crafting clear, user-centric technical content in this insightful post. From industry insights to job opportunities and expert advice, stay updated and elevate your technical writing prowess.
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CESS
6 min readSep 25 2023
Understanding The Anatomy Of A URL: A Breakdown of The Components And Their Significance
What are URLs, their types, and their characteristics? Learn about all that and more in this post.
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Henry Bassey
6 min readSep 11 2023
Content Distribution Analytics for Small Teams: The Ultimate Guide
Measure, optimize, and conquer SaaS content distribution challenges—a must-read for small teams and resourceful managers.
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CESS
6 min readAug 21 2023
Libraries vs. Frameworks: Which is right for your next web project?
Libraries, frameworks, you've heard both terms used interchangeably. What do they mean to you and your next project?
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William Imoh
6 min readAug 01 2023
Genesis II
I might have just done something silly, but, a life well lived is worth living.
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William Imoh
6 min readJun 29 2023
Why You Shouldn't Outsource Content Creation (Unless You Really Should!)
Discover the hilarious reasons you might want to handle content creation internally and the compelling arguments for outsourcing it to an agency. This piece offers a fresh perspective on content marketing with hard data, and key insights.
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William Imoh
6 min readJun 24 2023
Top 7 Practical Tips for Creating Effective SaaS Documentation: A Comprehensive Guide
Uncover Hackmamba's top seven tips for creating effective SaaS documentation. Learn to enhance user experience, understand your audience, and leverage technology for exceptional technical content.
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CESS
6 min readJun 05 2023
Boosting Your Efficiency: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using ChatGPT in VS Code
Speed up your development with ChatGPT directly in VS Code.
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Divine Odazie
6 min readMay 12 2023
Rapid development on AWS EKS using Garden
Learn about Garden, how it works, and how to configure an existing project to use it for development on an AWS EKS cluster.
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Femi-Ige Muyiwa
6 min readFeb 13 2023
How to Quickly Add GitHub Login to your Flutter Application
Learn how to seamlessly add GitHub authentication to your flutter app in easy steps using Appwrite's OAuth connector.
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Amarachi Iheanacho
6 min readFeb 10 2023
Why you Should Use GraphQL APIs in your Next Project
Conflicted on what API protocol to use? Learn why GraphQL works and how to use it in your next project.
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Tosin Moronfolu
6 min readFeb 02 2023
Create a Real-time Data Analysis Platform in Nuxtjs
Create a simple e-commerce data dashboard that updates in real time. This is a Nuxt.js app without a backend server.
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Emeni Deborah
6 min readJan 30 2023
Picking the Right Backend for your AI Project
What backend infrastructure do you need for your AI project? Here's an overview of PaaS, IaaS, and BaaS systems.
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Chidi Eze
6 min readJan 16 2023
Create a Paywall on a Next.js Blog Using Fingerprint and Sanity
Learn how to add a paywall to a blog built with Next.js using Fingerprint, Firebase, and Sanity.
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Tochukwu Nwoke
6 min readJan 09 2023
ML experiment tracking with DagsHub, MLFlow, and DVC
Learn how to track machine learning experiments using DagsHub, ML flow, and DVC.
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Tochukwu Nwoke
6 min readDec 19 2022
How to Track and Analyze Experiments in Machine Learning: A Beginner's Guide
This beginner guide will walk you through effectively tracking and analyzing your machine-learning experiments. By learning how to track and analyze your experiments, you'll be able to improve the performance of your models and make informed decisions about your machine-learning projects.
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William Imoh
6 min readDec 09 2022
Why Outsourcing Your Software Team's Content Marketing is the Smart Choice
Outsourcing your software team's content marketing is the smart choice for several reasons. It can save you time and money compared to doing it in-house and can provide high-quality content that is effective for your team's needs.
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Amarachi Iheanacho
6 min readDec 04 2022
Vagrant: The Best Virtual Machine Tool You’re Not Using
Learn how to efficiently start, stop and manage a virtual machine using Vagrant.
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Amarachi Iheanacho
6 min readNov 13 2022
Authenticate a Next.js commerce app using Clerk
Quickly Authenticate a Next.js app using Clerk. Add user signup, login and logout features.
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Scofield Idehen
6 min readOct 03 2022
Top 5 Tools and Practical Steps in Checking Website Vulnerability
Learn about how to use different free resources, scanners and vulnerability checkers to keep your website, application, or software safe.
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Divine Odazie
6 min readSep 26 2022
Best Practices when using Docker Compose
Learn 4 best practices you should consider when using Docker Compose to orchestrate multi-container Docker applications
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William Imoh
6 min readSep 19 2022
Announcing the Jamstack Content Hackathon - 2022
Attend workshops with technical writing experts, build a product or feature using Jamstack tools, publish a blog post, and get paid for it! 🎉
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CESS
6 min readSep 12 2022
Top 6 HTML Tags for SEO Every Developer Should Know
Learn 6 HTML tags and quick tips to use each tag to enhance SEO on your website
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Emeni Deborah
6 min readSep 06 2022
Practical Steps to Deploy a Node.js App with NGINX and SSL
Learn how to auto-deploy a Node.js application with NGINX by creating a Droplet in DigitalOcean for the application, setting up NGINX as a reverse proxy server, and setting up SSL for security.
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Divine Odazie
6 min readAug 29 2022
Top 3 Security Risks Facing Infrastructure as Code and their Prevention
Understand 3 security risks facing IaC and how to mitigate them. From misconfigurations, infrastructure drift, to ghost resources.
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Scofield Idehen
6 min readAug 04 2022
A Simple Guide to CI/CD For Total Beginners in 2022
Learn what CI/CD is, why software projects use CI/CD, how they work, and common tools used in creating a CI/CD pipeline.
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CESS
6 min readJul 14 2022
What every developer must know about types of browser storage
Learn the different storage in the browser including local, session, cookie, and indexedDB storage.
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Scofield Idehen
6 min readJun 08 2022
Top Web3 Scams and How They Work
Learn about common scams in the web3 space.
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CESS
6 min readJun 08 2022
What are the different loops in JavaScript?
Learn the different loops in JavaScript, including for loops, while loop and do-while loop.
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Scofield Idehen
6 min readMay 23 2022
Create a Crowdfunding Smart Contract using Solidity
Learn to create a Crowdfunding smart contract in Solidity and Remix
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CESS
6 min readMay 13 2022
Understand mathematical functions in CSS
What are mathematical functions like calc(), min(), max(), and clamp() in CSS? With examples, understand math functions in CSS and how to use them.
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Divine Odazie
6 min readMay 03 2022
How to avoid DevOps mistakes - 5 things to not do
Learn five DevOps/Infrastructure mistakes and ways to avoid them when building scalable applications.
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Divine Odazie
6 min readApr 23 2022
Deploy and Host an Appwrite Docker Application
Deploy and host an Appwrite instance in a few steps using Vultr. Build scalable web applications without a custom backend server.
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Henry Imoh
6 min readApr 08 2022
What are Controlled and Uncontrolled form fields in React.js
Understand the difference between controlled and uncontrolled form input fields in React.js
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CESS
6 min readApr 05 2022
How BEM works in building large applications with custom CSS
Learn why and how to use the block, element, modifier approach to writing CSS stylesheets for large applications.
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Divine Odazie
6 min readApr 05 2022
Jenkins in Docker: Running Docker in a Jenkins Container
This article guides you on setting up Jenkins in Docker and enabling the Jenkins container to allow the running of Docker (specifically: build, run, and push images).
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Scofield Idehen
6 min readMar 25 2022
Seven Things a Cyber-Security Enthusiast Should Know
Learn seven important topics everyone interested in Cyber-Security should know.
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Shuaib Oseni
6 min readMar 22 2022
Quickly Create Interactive Charts in Django
This tutorial discusses integrating Plotly in Django by building a simple Gantt chart project
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William Imoh
6 min readNov 11 2021
12,000 Readers After The Hackmamba Jamstack Content Hackathon
After 12,000+ readers on Dev.to, here's how the Hackmamba Jamstack hackathon went.
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William Imoh
6 min readAug 18 2021
Announcing Hackmamba Content Hackathon Hosted by Auth0 and Cloudinary
Join Hackmamba Content Hackathon to learn technical writing through workshops, create content, earn awards and pay, and network with software professionals.
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William Imoh
6 min readMar 06 2021
11 Tools to Use as a Technical Product Manager
Here is a list of 11 tools I use as a technical product manager and why I use each.
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William Imoh
6 min readJan 26 2021
Deploy a Gatsby Site to Digital Ocean in 7 Steps
In this first part of the Jamstack apps deployment series, we'll deploy a sample Gatsby.js application to the Digital Ocean App Platform in 7 short steps, from account creation to live app.
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William Imoh
6 min readJan 10 2021
Gain Mastery by Building & Collaborating in Dentry
Find projects to collaborate on as a beginner in tech. Find entry level roles and internship opportunities. Gain mastery by building.
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William Imoh
6 min readJan 03 2021
Manage Functionalities in Large Apps using Custom React Hooks
Learn to use custom React Hooks to manage reusable functionalities in your React components, while building large applications.
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William Imoh
6 min readDec 17 2020
Aggregate Multiple API Requests with Promise.all()
In this post we'll explore handling concurrent API requests into an aggregated response. This is used in building an aggregation service utilizing multiple third-party APIs.
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William Imoh
6 min readDec 07 2020
Setup Redux for Large React Projects - without Tears
Setting up Redux can be cumbersome. Here's how we did it for a large e-commerce project, with multiple data dependent modules. In this post, we keep it simple.
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William Imoh
6 min readNov 16 2020
Redwood.js Setup/Command Cheatsheet
A Cheatsheet of useful Redwood.js Commands used during setup and development.
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William Imoh
6 min readNov 08 2020
Dynamic JavaScript Object Keys
JavaScript objects keys don't have to be static, they can be dynamic and even... computed
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William Imoh
6 min readNov 03 2020
AI Product Manager
Recently completed the AI Product Manager Nanodegree Program on Udacity. Here's a summary of everything I learned... and more.
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William Imoh
6 min readNov 03 2020
Never 'Why?' but 'How?'
"Why" puts everyone off, instead ask "How". Here's why, and how.
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William Imoh
6 min readSep 21 2020
Explaining Web Apps State Management like ABC
Here's a base explanantion of how statement management in web apps work, with the least complexity.
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