Beating slop @boki_io @hackmamba || Student Pilot ✈️
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Flew solo for the first time! 🎉
Flying has challenged me like never before, but damn, pulling these Gs is worth it 😀
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Within unfamiliar territory, improve your social skills, take on new hobbies, try team sports, go out more, help people randomly, use public transport, volunteer for a public cause.
Ditch thoughts of actively finding a partner, and see the magic that happens.
The Japa movement never talks about the crippling loneliness of the abroad. Even success and access to everything you ever wanted can bore or make you sad.
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Today marks my last day as a Staff of @Andela. I had an amazing time building distributed dev communities across Africa.
Looking forward to whatever opportunity comes next!
For now, I’ll keep creating content and also develop talent through communities! 🙏🏽
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@hackSultan how can I sponsor @AltSchoolAfrica fees for Dalot and Hojlund of Manchester united?
Data science please. Thanks
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Some reasons people hire Nigerian techies
- Timezone sweet
- English language is native
- Nigerians adapt super fast to most work environments
- Hardwork and competition is somewhat woven into the avg Nigerian
The next best time to get into tech in Nigeria is today
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Hired someone from #100KInterns Amazing job @hackSultan 👏👏
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I send a bi-weekly newsletter with entry-level opportunities in tech. Internships, entry-level roles, OSS contributions e.t.c.
If you know any open roles, do send them my way. Let's get more folks in!
RT 🙏🏽
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Look up relocating to Rwanda, Georgia, and Dubai. Freelance visas and long-stay visas for expats
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Pilot in training here, there’s a Max Takeoff Weight for every plane.
Can’t pay for extra luggage after that limit.
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Are you learning about technology? There are 30k slots for Africans to advance their career in Web, Android and Google Cloud development.
Apply Now and RETWEET so someone who needs this sees it.
developers.googleblog.com/20…
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Recently took up a role in the Arabian Gulf as a Product Manager w/ @mart__sa.
Stoked about contributing to the dev ecosystem there as well... and its Products 🙏🏽😀
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Had an amazing time speaking at the Code Hearted x Vegas UI/UX meetup yesterday.
Now they know how we are using efficient communities to raise the next million developers. 😀🙏🏽
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After months of planning, I'll like to announce that from February 20th to March 12th I'll be taking a tour of and sharing opportunities from the tech teams, products, communities, and culture in Salt Lake City, Dallas, Las Vegas and the great San Fransisco. 🚀
A SHORT THREAD RT!
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Croatia is issuing digital nomad visas to people in tech earning above $3,000 monthly. A straightforward process too, plus you only risk paying for 1year insurance of about $53, during the application
You should check it out here, could be useful mup.gov.hr/aliens-281621/sta…
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What a year!
- 18 countries visited (15 new)
- Flew a plane
- Collected tons of stories
- Building technology solutions each day
- Spent time with my family
Grateful for these. We go again next year 💪
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Moved to Oslo over the weekend!
I'll love to meet people building cool stuff in the area and also folks in Devrel. If you know a good Kebab joint too. I'll buy the drinks 😅
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Nigerians are hustlers at heart
It’s not our fault if you can’t keep up. Our environment shaped us.
Don’t expect us to lower the hustle for you.
There are also 200million+ others in active training back home
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"I am most proud of the future we are all building", - iChuloo benjamindada.com/ichuloo-tec…
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It’s amazing how i’m in a team of 200+ awesome and smart people across Africa, all with a common goal of guiding 16k+ aspiring technology leaders in Africa. Africa is well on its way!🔥🔥 🙇🏾♂️🙏🏽🙏🏽 #ALCwithGoogle
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Told my gf yesterday of a hypothesis, in the end biology will win.
Females will choose mates who can ensure the survival of their offspring even though it looks like its for themself.
So they look for traits in males with that in mind. Financial success is a strong indicator (even if the wealth isn’t self acquired), also why i think most females will leave the fool soon as he’s parted with his money.
Seeking a ‘real man’, ‘leader of the pack’, ‘street smart’, imo its all just biology and natural selection in play. During teenage years when its not a concern, you see the first tweet, when the time is right, our dna honed since the first cave men, will shine through and you get tweet 2.
Males on the other hand feel the need to build community, gather as much resources so that they facilitate what all life is wired to primarily do, survive and reproduce (to ensure the survival of the next)
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Looking at people getting into tech now and it seems way harder than it was just 5years ago
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First day as a full-time entrepreneur. 🚀
Will be growing @hackmamba and sharing my experience doing this. Crossed $150k in author payments, and I'm ecstatic about what's to come.
It's either Lambo or Macdonalds now 😃
I could pay you $1500 👇🏽
hackmamba.io/blog/2023/08/ge…
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Over 20,000 Africans and counting have come through the Andela Learning Community and are empowered with tech skills, thus changing their lives in good ways.
To all those that made this work... To the unsung heroes without capes....
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Contributing to Open Source goes way beyond fixing bugs. Even adding a comma counts!
Your first PR could be merged today! 🔥🔥🚀🚀
Here's how to contribute to making websites faster using @gatsbyjs.
bit.ly/gatsby-contribute RT!
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Are you looking to go from building UIs in React to Vue? I wrote an ebook on 12 concepts you need to know.
You can get it here, along with an ebook on building your first Node App, and a bunch fun tech stuff around the web I share weekly. RT🙏🔥🔥
bit.ly/BooksNmore
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One honest take from experience.
Get that degree if you can, especially if you’re already under-represented in tech
There’re still lots of ‘late systems’ including organization and labor laws to get through, work permits etc
Everywhere isn’t Silicon Valley in real life
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Let’s do this! 🔥
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Have fun learning JavaScript!! RT so that beginner developer can see this! 🔥🔥🔥scotch.io/courses/getting-st…
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This has to make it here too. Last night, to the man, the legend @codebeast 🥂
w/ @Iphiee_oma @iAmCodefreak
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Hey guys, I finally wrote a summary of my tour of the west! Turned out a bit lengthy 😤. Now the experience lives somewhere else outside my head 😀
You can find it here => buff.ly/2TA7LMQ
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I can’t remember the last time any startup or product was publicly spotlighted or organically supported by the Nigerian tech ecosystem (particularly Twitter), only takedowns and “vawulence”.
Does bad news spread faster, or we’ve just become adept at trying to crush ourselves? 🤦🏽♂️
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I think Code Challenges are a good way for beginners to sharpen their coding skills, solving little problems one at a time.
From CSS challenges to React Hooks and more, you can check out these fun and useful challenges here, with moaaare coming! 😎💨RT! scotch.io/code-challenges
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New @gatsbyjs + MDX 🚨🚨🚨
- Super fast site with Gatsby 💨
- React Components in Markdown using MDX. ⚒️
- Performant Videos stored remotely 🎬
scotch.io/tutorials/building… #gatsby #mdx
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One win this year, I found time from January to trade stocks (short-mid term) while studying businesses, did 60% ROI to date 😬
Taking retrospective and planning for next year, here’s an opinionated list of what i learned
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The Joy of working on a business from the first commits on GitHub to live ❤️❤️
Super proud of my team. Absolute legends.
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Still on the road, spoke about International Developers and Development at @cloudinary today and it was 🔥.
Really amazed to finally meet the legendary @TheGreatMickey and everyone else. Let’s do this again!
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JS lessons? Nah... @codebeast serving @thesegunadebayo & @iAmCodefreak the other “Getting started” 🤣🙌🏽
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30 today.
Feels like i’ve lived 5 lives since finishing university at 20. lots of lessons and still learning more.
Still grateful
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As an employer I recommend (also to others in the comments), remove your photo, remove your location, move your experience right under profile, put education last unless you’re a doctoral student in a highly specialized and relevant field, remove any skill that you’re not at least good at, 1/5 is poor. Include achievements in your experience or some transformations you delivered the companies.
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Buni Hub, Dar es Salaam. Freelancers get to work from there for free, internet and power provided.
Sounds unreal to me coming from Lagos.
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First solve the problem in English before solving it with a programming language. Helps a lot.
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“You’re taller than Jaap Stam!”
Ran into a legend this morning. We could def use some Ole ball these days at United.
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I built something and wrote about it. A simple blazing-fast "static-dynamic" matchup of @gatsbyjs + @Netlify functions + @unsplash + cute doggos! 😄
Here's "Build an Infinite Scroll Image Gallery with Gatsby and Netlify Functions" RT! buff.ly/30meU7H
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Oh and you don’t need to code there’s also
- Design
- Product/Project Management
- Operations
- Customer support/success
- Content writing/editing/copywriting
- Developer advocacy and Programs mgmt
- Law and international regulations
- Technical recruitment and hiring
E plenty!
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Super amazing audience!!. Keep your Static Sites on Steroids! 🔥🔥 @gatsbyjs @ConcatenateConf #ConcatenateConf
@rotimiokungbaye shot this!🔥👏🏽
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This year is dedicated to learning, building and sharing even more.
Happy new year fellas!! Let’s gettit!🥂
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A lot of supposed junior devs possess more problem solving abilities than supposed senior devs.
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From traveling to 20+ cities and living in 3 countries in the last 3 years, I realized the current technology enabling mid to long-term co-living is largely flawed.
My friends and I are building @getspacemates to better connect homeowners, expats, and travelers like us.
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Drive itself to Ladipo to pick the parts and never return.
Teslanapped.
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I'm looking for a digital content/marketing PA for about 3 months (could go on).
Entry-level is preferred, just be smart, write good English, and be enthusiastic about data utilization. We'll figure the rest out and learn together.
20hrs a week and remote. DM me. RT 🙏🏾
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Btw Sudan is burning, incase you missed updating your header, company logo, and sending your prayers
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I normally recommend the handles in DMs, now they live somewhere together. Here's The Top Tech People to Follow on Twitter for Your Stack by @hackSultan buff.ly/2G63IUF
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2018 is awesome, learnt a lot, did things in new ways, met amazing people. Above all, I learnt to lead from behind and give more, making others even happier.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this. 2019 will be one of the greatest years of our lives. 🙏🏽
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JavaScript Essentials you should know! RT so that beginner sees this! 🔥
scotch.io/courses/10-need-to…
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Using @cloudinary in React and this sends the image size down by ~88% with no visible change in quality. Holy smokes!!
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Visited @pluralsight yesterday and the amazing thing i noticed was how thousands of people work together in distributed locations around the world to democratize learning.
The future of work and learning is indeed distributed.
Check it out here pluralsight.com
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Appreciation tweet to @iam_JayKay, no special occasion, just want to say this dude is the perfect rare mix of smart work and right attitude since day 1, esp in these parts.
The wickedest designer!!!
Anyone is super lucky to have him on their team. 🙏🏽
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aaaaand we bring the tour to an end today. Thanks to EVERYONE who helped throughout, met a ton of amazing people on the way.
Also learnt a ton of stuff which i can’t wait to share with everyone. I’ll write a post soon.
This was THE experience!
Gracias! 🙏🏽😀
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Learning @redwoodjs weekends ago and decided to build, dentry.io, the MVP of a listing to help beginners find projects to work on and open entry-level roles.
🛠️ @redwoodjs x @prisma x @apollographql
🛡️🌍 @Netlify Identity
💻 @chakra_ui
🖼️ @cloudinary
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I say “it’s a new day”, and immediately add “another day to be worldclass”.
Thanks uncle @unicodeveloper for the consistency! 🔥
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In a Web Dev meetup...
Me to some dude: What stack or technologies do most developers in SF prefer?
Him: Mostly JavaScript based, NodeJS, have you heard of GraphQL?
Me:
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TIL today: You can set up performance optimizations and Prerendering directly in @Netlify build settings. 👏🏾👏🏾
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Got a lot of images and videos? Want to query media files from @cloudinary CDN into your @gatsbyjs project.
This simple source plugin should help 🚀⚡️npmjs.com/package/gatsby-sou… …
PRs and suggestions are welcome!
Kindly RT! 🙏
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As a numbers guy, I'll lean heavily on @victorfatanmi's opinion.
Dara and the engineers who get jobs strictly based on competence over someone competent with a brand are outliers in today's market.
Personal brands reinforce decision-making when hiring, however subtle. It's there whether you know it or not.
I'll say if one can go for both, then they should. Be a great engineer, but always have social proof because you don't know who you're passively selling to. If you have the leverage of a great network or environment, then you should absolutely focus on the code.
If you're in Nigeria or anywhere riddled with uncertainties, please, have evidence and social proof.
As an engineer, branding does work. I know people who have built great products but are job hunting at the moment.
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You be quick to brutally criticize a running business yet your project hasn’t gone beyond initial commit since forever 😤
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If you work remotely, learn to communicate even better, invest in it, ask for feedback on your communication periodically.
Also, remember it’s a two-way street
You’ll actively help everyone be more successful by doing so
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I use @dingtone. Boring af, just works. I get a dedicated number and spend credits. IRS, local insurance, office everything. Exists alongside my phone so I just get a call like normal.
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ForLoopOAU Hackathon was lit, met a good number of badass devs, let’s do this another time!! 🤩🤩 💪🏼💪🏼🔥🔥🔥#HackIfe #forloopHackathon
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