Mind Matters

...totally unnecessary information from my head

A chess board with the chess pieces in start position

My return to chess

Back in college, I played lots of chess. I would play with my fellow college mates for fun when there were power outages during the day (which happened a lot back in my home country, Nigeria).

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Longevity

A quote from Jimmy Smith that I heard from the last track of Drake's album Nothing Was The Same got me thinking about how many unique contexts the idea could fit in.

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Blog questions challenge 2025

A lot of bloggers that I follow have responded to the ultimate Blog Questions Challenge and I thought I would give it a go myself.

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SQLite ain't that bad

With all my recent mentions of SQL, the title may seem clickbait-y or a little tongue-in-cheek, but I mean it: SQLite is not all that bad.

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Introducing Simon Says

Let my web-game-creating career begin 🥳!

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Thoughts on TDD

I admit it; I used to hate testing. It never made any sense. Why would I want to write more code (test code, that is) when I already have code to write?

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Programming is poetical science

Today I read a couple articles on Ada Lovelace. She was the first programmer ever, which makes her the grandfather of my profession, programming 🤓 (a real G 😉). But she wasn't only a programmer, she was also a prophet.

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New blog feature rollout

You may not have noticed, but my blog is missing a lot of features 😆. I am well aware of these omissions. They exist because I'm building this blog progressively: I add features as I need them.

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Eat the fruit

I was shopping for some items at CVS today when I stumbled upon something surprising on the shelf. In the "Diet Needs" section for the store, there lied different supplements.

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Dancing on the grave of Web SQL

I was wandering round the web recently and stumbled upon an article about the death of Web SQL. I couldn't ask for a better article.

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