Hey y’all, long time no newsletter. I’ve had a few life changes since my last newsletter. First off, new job, who dis? I joined GitHub to work on Actions, and I have really been loving it. Working from home has been lovely and I think I’m adjusting to the remote life well. Moving into a new apartment with a dedicated working area and no roommates has had a dramatic increase on my focus. I also gave a talk at StrangeLoop back in September, which you can check out below. With that, let’s get into some interesting links.

Programming

This blog post by walks through a great way of structuring your Go projects and how to think about things such as testing and observability while working with it.

Hey, hey y’all! I’m back with another issue for y’all. It’s been awhile, but hey, I’m back and I’m still kicking. A lot of things have happened since December. A new year. A new apartment. New projects. My birthday. Black Panther. Marvel Infinity War. Kanye wilding out. But hey, we’re here with a new newsletter, so let’s jump into it.

Software

Seeker is my latest project I’ve been working on. Basically, you can think of it as a job board as service. With the launch of and the integration of Panda Jobs, I realized a lot of sites could benefit from having a service such as that. Seeker attempts to make it easy to make your own job board for your blog, community, or even products.

As I write this newsletter, I’m currently sitting in my aunt’s compound in Abuja, Nigeria. I will be spending a total of two weeks in Nigeria and the trip is halfway done, but honestly, it’s felt amazing the entire time. I felt like I was returning to another home, which in reality, I was. Being born and raised in the United States to Nigerian immigrants, both Nigerian and Igbo culture have been a huge part of my upbringing. But experiencing it firsthand and being surrounded by my people has been a euphoric experience that is hard for me to describe. Switching gears, let’s get into some interesting content I’ve found since the last newsletter.

Software/Technology

Parcel Another day, another JavaScript build tool. Parcel markets itself as a fast, zero-configuration bundler for your web applications. We’ve all had the struggle of configuring webpack, so if it is as good as it sells itself as, I welcome this new tooling.

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay in sending out the next edition of the newsletter. Since last time, a lot of things have happened. I’ve joined a new project at DigitalOcean, still in the Networking space. I went to Romania and New Jersey to talk about gRPC and Protocol Buffers. Additionally, I spent a little over a week in Berlin on vacation, which was quite relaxing. Anyways, here’s some stuff I’ve found interesting since last time.

Software

The GraphQL Stack Recently, I’ve been dabbling with GraphQL in a few projects both in and outside of work. This blog post from the maintainers of is a good introduction to GraphQL and it’s future. Apollo is doing some exciting things and I’m excited for the future of it.

You’ve probably noticed that the title of my newsletter has changed. It’s now called “Bytes, Rhymes, Life” because I’m a pretty big fan of A Tribe Called Quest. With that explanation out of the way, here’s a few things I found interesting over the last few weeks.

Software / Technology

API Versioning by Stripe It’s no secret that Stripe has one of the best SaaS products in the tech industry. They seriously move mad money. One thing I’ve always found impressive is their API Versioning technique, in which they go into thorough detail explaining in this post.

Something that I’ve had on my mind recently is this feeling of temporality. My older sister recently got married and its one of those milestones in life where I realized, “Wow, we really aren’t kids anymore.” It’s funny because I can remember our childhood with the rest of our siblings like it was yesterday, just like it was last week. But, the clock keeps on ticking and won’t rewind. It’s an interesting thought that’s been running through my mind and it makes me wonder, am I doing the most with my time that I have on this earth? Food for thought. Now then, let’s switch it up into some interesting content that I’ve read recently.

Software / Technology

Exactly Once Delivery This is another amazing engineering blog post by Segment in which they discuss how they achieve/architected exactly once delivery of messages with and . Every time I read a Segment article, I always learn something new and interesting.

Life has been quite hectic recently. Between launching a new product at work, working on Interface Lovers, and opening an LLC (site coming soon), I haven’t really had time to stop and smell the roses. But I do know that I got time for sending out the next edition of my newsletter. This one is going to be a short one, I haven’t been reading that much on the internet.

And we’re back with the next installment of my newsletter!

Productivity

Using Gmail More Effectively I used to use Inbox by Google for managing my email, but this process for managing my emails has made it way more sane and easier to maintain Inbox Zero. I highly suggest giving it a whirl and see how if it turbocharges your productivity with regards to email at all.