I created a blog post from a photo. Here is how...
Last week I've come across a blog post by Ben Stokes. He was explaining how he build a product that enables users to create a blog post from a photo taken by their mobile phone. Although he gives a brief idea of how I wanted to explore more. After all, what else I can do better on the first of the new year anyway?
ReadHow to cross-post to hashnode and dev.to from your command line
Hashnode and Dev.to are great platforms for development blogging each has their own pros/cons. The biggest plus is that they have a community which means reaching out to more people. Having my own blog I was in need for a solution that can save me from copy pasting the same blog post to different sites.
ReadA day with gatsby, bash and opensource
This is a story of how I spend my last Sunday configuring my personal blog, connecting it to my existing (but never used) hashnode and dev.to accounts and setting up auto-publish to always keep them in sync to reach more people.
ReadInstagram photo parser
Today we are going to create a web application that enables user to see the original photo that is posted on instagram. First we create a web service that sends a request to the embeded version of that photo with a given image url, then the service is gonna parse the page it gets and finds the image url from there. In order to bypass instagrams CORS rules we will use some npm modules to be able to display the photo on our page.
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