Michael Ikoko

I built a Bluesky Wrapped
It analyses your posts, replies, reposts, interactions, and a personality summary from Gemini all in a story.

If you’re curious about your 2025 on Bluesky, try it here:
blueskywrapped.vercel.app

#atproto #Bluesky
Github repo: github.com/michaelikoko...

The trailer looks good though, slightly better than some of their more recent projects

A tiny black-capped, white, and grey songbird perched on a diagonal twig. Light brown blue in the background ©️DTL 2025

Morning chickadee 🪶

This was something I did for an art competition some years ago. They had a lot of entrants and they picked the best 100 to display at the art museum. Mine wasn't picked unfortunately.

This is a watercolour painting of my cat Mia which I did on a postcard for a competition a few years ago. I didn't win! 😐
#cats #kittens #competition #art #watercolours #painting

Beautiful painting

How to Handle Migrations in Express Using Sequelize | HackerNoon Learn Express + Postgres migrations: create migration files, apply and rollback changes, and seed your database with test data.

Just dropped Part 2 of the series: “How to Handle Migrations in Express Using Sequelize”. It builds on my first article
about connecting Express to Postgres.
Learn how to version your database schema, apply changes safely, and roll back when needed.
🔗 hackernoon.com/how-to-handl...
#NodeJS #Postgres

A resistive soil moisture sensor is an effective way to measure the moisture content in soil. It's a super useful tool for farmers & gardeners. Here, Michael helps you build your own using an Arduino UNO microcontroller & teaches you how to calibrate & use it.
www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...

How to Use a Resistive Soil Moisture Sensor A resistive soil moisture sensor is a widely used, simple, and affordable way of estimating the amount of water in the soil. In this tutorial, you will learn how to interface a resistive soil moisture...

Just published my first article on freeCodeCamp 🚀
A tutorial on using a soil moisture sensor with Arduino

www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...

#Arduino #freeCodeCamp #IoT

How to Connect an Express Application to Postgres Using Sequelize | HackerNoon This tutorial explains how to use Postgres in your Express application.

Just published my first article on @hackernoon.com

I wrote about connecting an Express application to a PostgreSQL database using Sequelize. It is aimed at beginners looking to integrate relational databases in their Node.js apps. #ExpressJS #JavaScript #PostgreSQL

🔗 hackernoon.com/how-to-conne...

🥳 Just got approved to write for @freecodecamp.bsky.social It feels full circle. FCC has a lot of very good articles and resources, so contributing is going to be a bit challenging. But looking forward to it. 😎

Server-Side Pagination with Express.js and MongoDB Introduction When working with large datasets, various techniques are employed to optimize...

One of the first backend articles I wrote — still relevant.
Server-side pagination with Express & MongoDB.
🔗 dev.to/michaelikoko...
#NodeJS #mongodb #ExpressJS #javascript

Squirting: What's Really Happening?! Science Vs · Episode

🌶️ SCIENCE VS IS BACK! 🌶️

We are extremely excited to bring you this ep that's been in the works for more than a year ... on the science 🧪 of SQUIRTING! Come on this journey with us and comic Annie Lederman.

Video available on Spotify, audio everywhere!

open.spotify.com/episode/6DR4...

Paramore: Rock band drop out of headline slot at LA festival It comes after the band took down all posts and images from their social media accounts in December.

Paramore: Rock band drop out of headline slot at LA festival