Blog

A personal blog where I write notes for future reference when I inevitably forget how I solved some obscure issue, or things that I find interesting and want to write about!

Generate an Instagram API Token

Generate an Instagram API Token

by
Jim
· 4 min read

I was recently tasked with implementing an Instagram feed that shows the latest Instagram posts on a website. Due to recent changes to the Instagram API it was a bit challenging to find any good up-to-date information on how to implement this. Instagram announced end of last year that they’ll be deprecating their Legacy API Platform on March 2, 2020 (later postponed to June 29, 2020 due to COVID-19). The new API, known as Basic Display API, offers more fine-grained privacy settings and deprecations of some fields such as location data and follower count.

Hello World!

Hello World!

by
Jim
· 1 min read

Welcome to my blog! Here I intend to write about things I find interesting and also subjects that I think will be of value to me or someone else. I will use this opportunity to try to improve my writing skills and line of thought when writing articles, as I think being good at expressing yourself with words is a valuable skill to have in today’s digital world.