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[LMG] Issue 4: What is an API?
Short version: An Application Programming Interface (API) is a data browser for apps, a way for apps to talk to each other. Long version: Imagine you're an...
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[LMG] Issue 3: What is all this clutter?
You would think that the first challenge in writing an app is learning the programming language. In my case, there was an even more fundamental challenge to...
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[LMG] Issue 2: Don’t reinvent the wheel
Just thinking about recreating the Readmill reading experience in an app was mind-boggling, especially for someone like me with minimal programming...
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[LMG] Issue 1: Why make an app?
These holidays, I started making an app. It wasn’t a spontaneous decision. I had been thinking about it for years. It started when I started saving articles...
[LMG] Issue 0: Why write a newsletter?
Where do I start? Someone I know just took up a (sponsored) course to learn HTML, CSS, and eventually maybe Javascript and maybe even Python! What does it...