Out of Boredom series
How i plan to conquer boredom
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Unboring Boredom Fact
I did a quick five minute search on google looking for
intersting boredom facts. Guess what? I got bored doing that.
Please don't get bored reading this post.
I got bored at work today. I had stuff to do but my mortal self didnt want to cooperate. I tried so many activities trying to clear my head. I took a walk, ate, tried to watch a movie, listend to music, etc. None worked so i gave up. I guess i was bored (of work?)
While scribling and scrambling around, I stumbled on a Github project by Akinjide Bankole. The project allows us to view black market currency rate instantly in your terminal! (Nigeria Only) and it worked by scraping data from AbokiFX. Try it out by in your terminal:
$ sudo pip install aboki
$ aboki --help
Okay so how does this relate to boredom?
Long story short out of boredom, I built a minified API around it and built a mobile app that allows you to see the current exchange rate in US Dollars, Great Britain Pounds and Euros.
STACK for the API
- Flask
- Flask-Restful
- Flask-CORS
- Tornado
- Aboki
STACK for the Mobile App
- Cordova
- AngularJS
- NodeJS
Ok cool stuff, but you’ve still not said your plan to conquer boredom
Personally I'll be building small time apps and blogging about them in the "Out of boredom series" when i'm bored so i can
- "Unbore myself"
- Still make the best out of lost time
- Learn new things
- Remain creative
- etc, etc, etc.
Where’s the API at?
Hosted on a personal server, but check out
Where’s the Mobile App at?
Get it on
Olakanmi Oluwole
Cyber Security and Software Engineering.