Pejibaye Blog

Nowadays it’s very easy to publish on the web for free. There are countless blogging platforms and website creators. But these platforms usually end up controlling your content. Sometimes you cannot even export your own data! The other extreme is to set up your own server by yourself. Buy a VPS (virtual private server) or a shared hosting somewhere, install a web server, and upload your files. This is a lot of work already!

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I made some small apps for Android and I wanted to distribute them. I also care a lot about software freedom, so F-Droid is the best place for me to publish my apps. Disclaimer! You are not able to sell your app on F-Droid. If you want to make money with it, you would need to allow users to pay through another method. Please see this StackExchange question if you’re interested in monetization.

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Last year, I was tasked with mentoring an intern. It wasn’t my first time mentoring, but it was my first time being fully in charge of a new employee. In the end, the intern was hired as a full-time employee, and I thought it would be helpful to compile all the advice I’ve been giving them, for future reference. The following tips come from my experience and my way of working, as well as my own personal opinions.

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You know when you share a link on social media or mesagging apps, sometimes the app shows a nice preview thumbnail with a description? You can click on it and it will take you to the linked website. I wanted to have this functionality for a website I was working on, so I did some research on how to get it working. Short answer: use the og:image meta tag. Longer answer: read on.

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In my spare time I often enjoy creating visualizations using HTML5 canvas. I’m planning to do a little presentation about this so I thought a good way to get started was to create a blog post explaining how to do a simple one. This tutorial will teach you how to create something like the image below from scratch! IMPORTANT – you can try out the result of this part of the tutorial by visiting this CodeSandbox.

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