you can finally change your Gmail address

google just shipped a feature many of us have been asking for since forever: you can now change your primary Gmail address without losing your account, your emails, or your data. if you created your account back in 2009 with something like [email protected], today is a genuinely good day. what changed before this update, you could add alternate email addresses to your Google account as aliases, but your original address was locked in as the primary one. Google has changed that. you can now switch to any available @gmail.com username, and your old address automatically becomes an alias, so it still works for receiving mail and signing in. ...

March 31, 2026 · 3 min · Chris Achinga

10 Developer YouTube Channels You Should Visit

Learning never ends, especially for developers. That is why we have a lot of people who have sacrificed a lot to create great content for the developers’ ecosystem. In as much as most content can be gotten for free, we should be aware of vague content and/or resources that will make you think twice about your career. I have made a list of 10 developer channels that I highly recommend if you’d love to learn and keep yourself updated. ...

June 6, 2021 · 3 min · Chris Achinga

Beginner React/Messenger Tutorials: 2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge

On September 10th, 2020, Facebook Developers announced the 2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge. The challenge was on creating tutorials for using any of Facebook’s open-source products. Submissions were really great and once again appreciating and stressing on the importance of developer communities. I have gone through the regional and global submission winners and I’d love to highlight all React-based tutorials for beginners. Here is the list: (No particular order was followed here :-) ) ...

January 2, 2021 · 2 min · Chris Achinga