Obum

WRITING ARTICLES

I write articles on various topics. I write about mobile app development with Flutter, about Tech Communities, web development, my stories, and anything worth sharing.

Here are articles I've written over the years. For some, I published them on my blogs. For others, they were guest authorship for blogs like CSS-Tricks and freeCodeCamp.

Obum at Google Kenya Office

December 2025 Published on Medium

Road to Mastery - Being a Google Developer Expert

Becoming an Expert has catapulted my developer career. I have learned much more and met more industry leaders thanks to the GDE program.

November 2024 Published on freeCodeCamp

How to Implement RBAC in a Community Dashboard with Nuxt

Learn how to integrate Role Based Access Control (RBAC) with Permit.io in Nuxt to create different access levels in an example app.

September 2024 Published on freeCodeCamp

How to Use Streams and Services for Flutter State

Explore an Easy and Flexible State Management Architecture in Flutter with rxdart's Stream manipulations and singleton classes.

May 2024 Published on freeCodeCamp

How is Flutter Platform-Agnostic?

Explore how Flutter is platform-agnostic through how it renders user interfaces and through platform channels.

April 2024 Published on freeCodeCamp

How to Always Have A BuildContext in Flutter Outside of UI Code

Explore how you can obtain a valid BuildContext outside the scope of its natural availability

September 2023 Published on Medium

How to structure any booking/reservation system with Firebase

Check out this one other thing that you can do with Firebase.

August 2023 Published on Hashnode

Hosting a Tech Community Event

How to handle your event in real time and things you should do when the event is taking place.

August 2023 Published on Dev.to

How To Improve Flutter Forms

Tips on improving user experience on forms created in flutter.

February 2023 Published on freeCodeCamp

How to Prevent Account Loss When using Two-Factor Authentication

You want to lock out malicious access to your account. But you don't want out yourself.

February 2023 Published on SweetCode

How to Brand Your Flutter app

Learn how to setup project name, app colors, fonts and themes in Flutter.

January 2023 Published on Medium

Firebase CORS Proxy Server

Learn how to bypass CORS issues making API calls through a CORS server that you setup for free yourself with Firebase.

December 2022 Published on Reflect

Guide to Testing Angular apps

Learn the basics of testing Angular apps, including guide for unit testing, component testing, and end-to-end testing.

November 2022 Published on SweetCode

How to Assist Language Inclusion in Tech

What we can do to minimize the language barrier faced by non-anglophone tech practitioners.

September 2022 Published on Dev.to

How to Restore Poison Messages (or Dead Letters) from Memphis broker vs RabbitMQ

Learn causes of poison messages in a message broker. Also learn how to restore them in both Memphis.dev and RabbitMQ.

September 2022 Published on CSS-Tricks

Flutter For Front-End Web Developers

Concepts that transferred over from web to Flutter development and concepts that are new to a web developer starting Flutter.

August 2022 Published on Dev.to

How to build a real-time app with NestJS and Memphis broker

Learn how to setup and use Memphis, NestJS, and gRPC to come up with a simple chatting application

July 2022 Published on SweetCode

How to Customize Flutter Packages to Suit Your Needs

Learn how to access the source code of a given package on pub.dev, understand how it works, and customize it.

July 2022 Published on CSS-Tricks

Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener

Reviews the available tools, decision choices, and factors that influenced choosing Angular for the project's frontend.

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July 2022 Published on freeCodeCamp

How to Use Stacked Architecture

Explains what Stacked architecture is and guides you through creating a simple Todo App in Flutter with Stacked.

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July 2022 Published on freeCodeCamp

Why You Should Use Flutter

Explains in detail the various benefits of using Flutter so you can decide whether to use it for your next project.

June 2022 Published on Firebase Blog

How to Build a URL Shortener for FREE with Firebase

Step-by-step guide on getting your personal URL Shortener for FREE.

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June 2022 Published on freeCodeCamp

How to Implement Any UI in Flutter

A guide that will help you convert any user interface image, piece, or screen into Flutter code.

June 2022 Published on Hashnode

How to Promote a Tech Community Event

You need a way to get people to know that your event is coming up. You need to promote the event.

May 2022 Published on Hashnode

How to Plan Your Community Event

Don't just start hosting the event. Please, first plan it. Planning is like being in the event before it happens.

May 2022 Published on Hashnode

Grow a Tech Community

Grow a tech community because you want to mentor people (where you can). You will impact people's lives and become a leader.

May 2022 Published on Hashnode

5 things you will Gain from Tech Communities

Community works for many people and it will work for you too. We are talking of huge benefits you won't find in other places.

May 2022 Published on Hashnode

10 Ways to Contribute to Tech communities

Give back to the community. The active participation of community members is the fuel that fires the life of a given tech community.

May 2022 Published on Hashnode

On Tech Community Events

Community events are moments of bonding and celebration. They are organised to keep the community alive.

May 2022 Published on Hashnode

Understand Tech Communities

Tech communities are groups of people of who love digital stuff and usually have (or want to learn) some digital skill.

February 2022 Published on Keep Deploying

Understand Serverless Architecture

Serverless is a type of Microservices architecture that involves the browser doing the majority of the website's workload.

February 2022 Published on DEV

How To Build Flutter Form for Managing Questions

Explains form creation with Flutter. Includes iteration, validation, and user feedback.

Obum attending TEDx Ikenegbu

December 2020 Published on Medium

How I first perceived TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, I remain ever hungry to attend TED/TEDx events whenever/wherever I can because ...

Congratulatory Email from GDSC

August 2020 Published on Medium

Becoming a Developer

From secondary school, to scholarships, to building projects, to volunteering, to community programs, to organising events, ...

Screenshot of Successful Invitation in GitHub Invite

June 2020 Published on Medium

Making GitHub-Invite

To me, it first sounded unreasonable. After all, ... However, two things changed my mind: ...

Day 4 flyer of ECX #30DaysOfCode

April 2020 Published on Medium

Taking Part in ECX #30DaysOfCode

During COVID, day after day, we submitted tasks given by mentors of our respective tracks. In the leaderboard ...

Picture of GADS Enugu Community

February 2020 Published on Medium

My #GADS Story

Being a beneficiary of the Google Africa Developer Scholarship, I had access to Pluralsight learning resources, I attended meetups in Enugu, and I ...