Exactly two years ago, I embarked on a journey of creating my own little learning management system (aka LMS aka CMS for educators). I named it CourseLit and here is its landing page. CourseLit Create And Sell Courses, Digital Downloads And Premium Content. We have got all the tools you need to run…courselit.app I have been a solo developer working on this open source project. I have detailed my reasons…

Lately, I have been encountering a lot of articles that suggest getting straight to the point when initiating a chat with a coworker. For example: You: Hi, what do to think about XYZ? Co-worker: To be honest, I ... Instead of: You: Hi Co-worker: Hey ** you articulating your thoughts…

I originally published this on my own blog but I have pivoted my blog to cater to a different audience hence republishing here. In this post, I want to record my learnings and takeaways that I’ve acquired after working in a toxic team environment for more than an year. I…

In this post, I will show you how to launch your own online teaching platform for free by running CourseLit on a free AWS plan. For the uninitiated, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud hosting provider which provides a generous free plan for beginners where one can play around…

We are pleased to announce that CourseLit now supports WEBP by default. This means that every image you upload to CourseLit will get auto-converted to its WEBP counterpart. CourseLit generates thumbnails for the image and video resources that you upload. …

I have been working on this new platform for educators and entrepreneurs since February 2019 and finally the software has started to take the form I had in mind when I wrote its very first line of the code. …

We have recently released version v0.6.2 of CourseLit, which comes with Caddy v2 as the reverse proxy of choice instead of HAProxy. In this post, we will go over why we replaced a stable piece of technology like HAProxy with a new kid on the block, Caddy. Prior to v0.6.2…

If you’ve set up a GraphQL endpoint, protected with a JWT and you want to use GraphiQL for local development, here you go… — Step #1 Enable bodyParser.json() middleware in your Express app. This is required for parsing JSON posted by GraphiQL. const express = require('express') const bodyParser = require('body-parser') const app = express() if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') { // only used for accessing Graphiql with JWT auth, during development

Let’s drill it into our minds and be done with it, once and for all. — I’m writing this micro post because the aforementioned question has haunted me for a very long time, and I knew I wasn’t the only one. …