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Who really is a 10x developer?
In this episode we bring on a group of Software developers who get to analyze and share their different perspectives on the concept of a 10x developer. A myth or not?
Show Notes:
Meet Tomiwa(02:29)
What is BuyCoins Africa About? (03:29)
What brought about the idea for you and your co-founders to take on building BuyCoins Africa? (04:09)
How does Cryptocurrency and Blockchain differ? (06:53)
How daunting was it at your first trial while building out the startup? (10:30)
In January (2019), Your team hit $2M in transaction, how did that feel? (12:24)
How has the hiring/recruitment process for your team been? (12:52)
How would you describe the Blockchain development culture in Nigeria? (16:11)
How does your team mitigate the risks involved in building a startup in your business ecosystem? (18:30)
How does your team deal with security and vulnerability in your field? (23:06)
What regulatory bodies are your startup governed by? (25:30)
What are some of the actions you expect of the regulatory bodies? (27:13)
How does your team mitigate Fraud? (28:22)
What was the process and experience like for your team, being selected into Ycombinator? (30:34)
Would you contribute your investors' network to Ycombinator? (34:16)
Are there times you and your co-founders have gotten really frustrated along the line? (35:25)
How has it been working with your teammates? (37:58)
What's has been the most disapproving feedback you have gotten from users/customers? (41:25)
Any available resources for potential Blockchain developers? (43:27)
Any advice for potential founders in the blockchain space?(45:16)
Extra Notes:
Find out more about BuyCoins Africa here
Connect with Tomiwa via tomiwa@buycoins.africa
Join our slack channel here
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Show Notes:
Meet Anuoluwapo (01:14)
What made you build Yorlang? (02:15)
Did you build it all out alone or you had help from people? (03:37)
How long did it take to build it? (04:15)
How did you react to your announcement about it going viral? (04:55)
What technologies and concepts did you build it out with? (06:11)
When last did you build with it? (10:39)
What are the functionalities of the language? (10:25)
What languages was Yorlang modeled after? (11:49)
What made you decide on making the code open source? (13:00)
What references or resources did you make use of when creating the language? (14:04)
How has the acceptance been in the community? (15:26)
Has it had any acceptance outside Nigeria? (16:22)
What are your future plans for Yorlang? (18:13)
Any plans to create for other dialects or languages? (20:26)
What else have you been up to asides Yorlang? (21:48)
Tips to developers? (23:44)
Would you attribute your study in the university as a helping guide to build this?(25:06)
Extra Notes:
Read up more about Yorlang here
Work your way through the Yorlang github repo here
Connect with Anuoluwapo via karounwianuoluwapo@gmail.com
Join our slack channel here
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Show Notes:
Meet Taslim (01:52)
What is marketing to developers (03:10)
Why do developers need to have an understanding of marketing (05:23)
How do you introduce marketing skills as a developer for your small scale products? (07:30)
What are the right places or platforms to reaching out to potential product users? (09:46)
At what stage of building your product do you have to introduce aspects of marketing? (13:03)
How do you create a niche for your product in a competitive market? (16:28)
For product user acceptance; how do you approach your target market? (18:38)
Is there a disadvantage to starting out product marketing firstly with social media marketing ? (20:20)
How does marketing help create nice product pitches when pitching to investors? (21:53)
When's the right time to pitch a product? (23:10)
Tips, tools and resources to guide developers on gaining marketing skills (24:41)
Extra Notes:
Connect with Taslim on Twitter www.twitter.com/taslimokunola
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Show Notes:
What is depression (04:08)
Symptoms of depression (04:52)
What is depression at work? (08:08)
Tips to overcoming depression (20:13)
Extra Notes:
Join our Slack Channel here
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Show Notes:
Meet Shalvah (02:37)
What is Deimos Cloud about? (04:34)
How is a typical day at work for you? (06:29)
How has the experience in Software Engineering been? (07:37)
What brought about the idea in building your bots ? (11:49)
What technologies did you build each with ? (20:13)
What languages were they built with ? (22:54)
Were there other APIs used in building each or solely Twitter's API? (23:27)
For one looking to build with Twitter's APIs, are there several APIs by Twitter, one can use to achieve specific functions or solely a generic API? (25:16)
What are the underlying processes for when a user makes a request to your bots? (26:53)
What has been your experience building with Twitter APIs? (31:00)
Were you expecting any of your products to gain this much traction? (32:38)
How were you able to scale each product as your requests grew? (34:11)
What has been the most weirdest/random user feedback you've gotten on your bots? (36:40)
How do you get the time to do all that you do while working full time? (38:08)
Random Question and Answer time from Twitter followers (39:25)
5 questions in 20 seconds with Shalvah (53:44)
Extra Notes:
Register for forloop summit here (8th March 2019)
Join our Slack Channel here
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Show Notes:
Meet Neo (01:11)
How do you feel relocating to a new country? (04:42)
How do you feel joining your new company? (05:32)
What made you take the choice to relocate ? (06:53)
What do you think are the reasons for other tech talents leaving the African continent ? (07:42)
What made you settle down for Germany as your new country choice ? (08:55)
Are there things to consider before making a choice on relocation ? (10:35)
As a developer, what are the lacking necessities you feel your government hasn't provided to make people consider relocation? (12:49)
Would you stay back if things were to change? (15:17)
How was the process like in getting your new role ? (16:56)
How would you advice one who gets a remote job with bigger pay or an offer with lesser pay but includes relocating ? (19:14)
How do you intend to continue your contribution to the African tech ecosystem ? (20:32)
Would you consider moving back to your country sometime in the future? (22:36)
How does the act of Talents leaving Africa affect the narrative of "The Africa Tech ecosystem growing"? (23:09)
5 questions in 20 seconds with Neo (25:00)
Extra Notes:
Register for forloop summit here (8th March 2019)
Be a speaker at forloop summit, sign up here!:
Join CreativityKills as a Technical writer Intern!: Mail Neo@creativitykills.co
Register for forloop Aba here. (22nd,Feb.2019)
Join expresspayghana.com!: Mail careers@expresspaygh.com
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Show Notes:
forLoop Pod: Journey so far
Regrets from 2018
Goals for 2019
Attend the forLoop Summit !
2018: State of forLoop Africa Report
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Show Notes:
Meet Lenora (01:42)
What is your perspective to User xperience? (05:27)
Product design (07:20)
What is bad UX to you ? (09:32)
What are the pointers to help one identify bad UX ? (11:19)
Bad User Interface (U.I)
Accessibility Bad Code
What are the things to consider when de-cluttering bad design (13:49)
User data (14:35)
User Accessibility (16:30)
Visual Hierarchy (17:30)
User research and re-iteration (18:20)
How long do you have to give an interval before getting user research on implemented changes (19:07)
How do designer propose to their organizations the art of embracing of good UX on its products ? (21:21)
How do developers working on teams without a dedicated designer get to influence great design decisions ? (25:28)
How does one go about decluttering a bad design in terms of accessibility ? (29:50)
Big advice to designers and developers looking to grow in their field (31:29)
5 questions in 20 seconds with Lenora (36:00)
Dev Noir (38:20)
Extra Notes:
Reach out to Lenora on: Twitter , Instagram and via mail: Hi@lenoraporter.com
Connect with Dev Noir on Instagram: @dev.noir
Coolors.co - Helps breakdown different colors to help improve site accessibility
UserOnboard.com - Breaks down different onboarding processes used bu top companies
Little UI details -A collections of little tips from @steveschoger to improve your visual design skills
Steve Schoger Design tips
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Show Notes:
DevFest 2018 (3:20)
ForLoop Mentors (5:37)
What is Imposter syndrome (10:50)
What does Imposter syndrome indicate ? (12:20)
Tips to tackle Imposter syndrome:
Admit it / Own up to it (15:10)
Don't push yourself too hard (15:54)
Reach out to others (17:15)
Be Positive (22:37)
Learn to change some rules (25:11)
Visualize your success (26:20)
Reward your little wins (28:19)
Fake it till you make it (29:06)
What does it mean to feel Burnt Out ? (31:00)
How to identify being burnt out (35:48)
Tips to tackle Burn Outs:
Admit it / Own up to it (38:40)
Take a break (39:40)
Eat healthy (41:21)
Sleep (42:55)
Exercise (44:00)
Remember why your work doesn't suck (44:50)
Set Goals for yourself (46:23)
Don't Stress (46:58)
Outsource (47:12)
Have FUN! (48:22)
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Show Notes:
How did you respond to your first task as an engineering lead? (10:00)
What are the expected traits and qualities of a good engineering lead? (12:30)
Can a C.T.O also play the role of an engineering lead? (15:53)
How do you determine if a project is at risk to your team and company as an engineering lead?(17:55)
How do you calm a stormy situation in your team? (21:34)
Ever experienced any form of insurbodination due to gender or field experience? (26:22)
What do you look out for while adding a new member to your team? (28:37)
What metrics do you use in measuring your team's performance? (31:14)
Any worse moments as an engineering lead? (37:30)
What are the things you know now that you wished you knew before hand? (39:28)
Would you advice intending engineering leads to attend bootcamps/trainings on it or learn on the job?(43:44)
What are your best practices to leading engineering teams? (46:28)
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Show Notes:
What is Machine learning? (07:50)
TensorFlow.js application in Machine learning (09:20)
Pre-requisites to getting started with M.L (10:35)
How to approach M.L as a beginner(14:58)
Difference between Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (A.I) and Data science (D.S) (17:11)
Languages and libraries peculiar to M.L (20:41)
Benefits of going into M.L (20:50)
Common challenges encountered while getting on with M.L (26:20)
Technologies peculiar to M.L (28:56)
Exciting products/platforms/technologies that make use of M.L models (31:28)
Future of M.L in Africa (35:05)
Get started with a new forLoop chapter in your city with Ore : ore@forloop.africa
Extra resources: - Emotion recogniton application with TensorFlow.js - Ore Ogundipe- Facial-Surveillance System for Restricted Zones - Ore Ogundipe- School of AI - Siraj Raval - Machine learning crash course - Google developers- Ai Saturdays Lagos- Women in MachineLearning and Data science, Lagosintro and outro music: bensound - dubstepHey! Liked this episode? Let us know your thoughts on it, click on either of the icons below Host: @kolokodess
Show Notes:
What is code refactoring? (05:26)
Mob programming (06:26)
When to refactor code? (08:00)
Reasons to continually refactor code (11:52)
Methods and approachs to code refactoring (14:20)
Follow Styling guides (14:40)
Logical seperation of classes and files (15:23)
Repository service pattern (16:40)
Does code refactoring also affect an application's UI design? (21:41)
Who should refactor code? (23:41)
How does one suggest code refactoring on a particular application to Product / Project manager / Technical heads or engineering team leads? (27:00)
Best practices to code refactoring (29:04)
Automated code refactoring with IDE's (31:56)
Benefits of code refactoring (35:33)
Need to carry out unit tests during code refactoring (37:45)
- Cleancoder.com - Extra resource: https://www.openlearning.com/courses/... an excerpt from _Refactoring_ by Martin Fowlerintro and outro music: bensound - dubstepHey! Liked this episode? Let us know your thoughts on it, click on either of the icons below Host: @kolokodess
Show Notes:
Episode 1 recap (00:56)
Concatenate Conf (2:27)
Tips (5:45):
Just Apply
Be different in your application
Know the basics
Start building! while growing your online presence
Learn to build your salary negotiation skills
Stop overestimating or underestimating a job / gig
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Show Notes:
Intro (00:21) :
Challenges (2:46):
Pay / Value / Renumeration
Data / Internet
Light
Travel (visa)
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Well Done @kolokodess you're really done a great job here. I noticed the major improvements in the sound quality. I'm yet to listen to the remaining 7 episodes. I'll definitely do that.
Thank You