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Eleli Ayub

21 days

In tech you just got to be good. Each year, bootcamps coughs out thousands of devs, thousands more come from universities and self taught devs. To add on top of that A.I is here. If you are not always learning and building stuff, the industry won't be kind to you.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

Congratulation to me. I just got promoted to a fullstack android engineer at InnoviaKenya. To more wins.🍻

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

Kenyans devs, let's do a thread of our laptops specs tushtue watu. Hawa watu wanatudharau ati tunaishi bedsitters and 1broom.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

4 months

The Nairobi CBD is packed heavier than the node modules. Gen Z are not here to play. Techies are also joining the #REJECTF İNANCEBİLL2024 mvt. Lovely scenes.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

4 months

#rejectfinancebill2024 in binary. 00100011 01110010 01100101 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101100 00110000 00110010 00110000 00110010 00110100 This should be loud enough.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 months

Got a new job offer after a month since my last job contract ended. Cheers and to more wins.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

27 days

Every time I start a project I usually pick a junior or upcoming dev and work with them. Not necessarily on the same project as me, but I walk with them in that Journey. Most of them learn alot. I think more seniors should do that.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

11 months

Why are graduate "engineers" from universities and colleges always fighting with programmers from bootcamps such as Moringa and ALX?

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 months

When a Python dev says they are debugging this is what they mean.

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@eleliayub

11 months

As much as programming is fun, it has the other side. For instance right now I'm leaving the office from my main job and I have two other meetings for my other two remote jobs. It's fun being a programmer but sometimes you have to make some sacrifices, and I love every single

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

Today I'm happy to announce that Eleli Afrika have partnered with patakazi in developing and managing their mobile application system I will personally be leading the team in developing, testing and shipping the product To more wins💯 Thank you tech X-sers for the recommendations

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

I recently got a job as a Go developer in a startup in Nairobi. This was a week short of two months from when I started learning go. All I can say is connections and networking gets you more refferals to jobs than anything. Also I almost died this past week😅 due to legacy code

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@eleliayub

4 months

@Makiadi_ My final year project was an AI assisted biometric system. What I'm pretty sure is my lecture could not set up a simple python environment let alone train and use it. A computer project being presented on CD in 2024 is a shame on our education ICT sector.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

16 days

The Kenyan tech is very small. Everybody knows everybody.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

8 months

Yes I do. I know Node Express, React, Tailwind, Bootstrap, SCSS, React Native, Expo, Golang, Rust-ish, Kotlin XML, Kotlin Jetpack compose, Nginx, Google GCP VM and buckets, AWS EC2, cloudfront, S3. I've made over 30 apps (mobile, cloud, backend, and frontend) shipped over half

Doreen🌻

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8 months

I don’t think human beings know how powerful they are

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

21 days

The fact that Fullstack devs earn less than both dedicated frontend and backend devs is a clear indication that you should specialise in one and stop being a jack of all trades. My take.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

8 months

In 187 days you can get a job this way. Day 1 - 20. Learn html and CSS basic Day 20 - 40. Learn JS basics (vanilla js) Day 40 - 60. Learn React. Day 60 - 65. Take the fake store api (free, no key needed) and build a fully functional front end application using react and css.

🌻✨🌻 ShartheMilfyConquest

@sharisaconcept

8 months

Day 187 of unemployment and I can now write with my left hand.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

It's been tough, but steel only gets sharpened by steel. Today I'm graduating. Congratulations to fellow graduands class of 023.

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@eleliayub

10 months

Maturity is accepting there's a 22 year kid who's writing better code than you'll ever write your entire life. With that you'll stop comparing yourself with others and start competing with your yesterday's version.

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@eleliayub

2 months

I love minimalist programmers. A programmer with just a laptop and headphones set. You can get things done without 37 screens

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 months

techfluencers are now making us compare bootcamps and not skills. Whether moringa or alx, stfu and code.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

11 months

Who said devs shouldn't wear suits?😅😅

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 months

The happiest moment of a developer is shipping a product. Congratulations to us at Group Lasso on shipping the first of many products, Patakazi. To more success💯🎉

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

5 months

Nobody knows how many hours you've put into learning to code, how many failed projects you have, the rejection emails you have received, unpaid gigs you've done, neither do they know how much you've sacrificed to be where you are. So keep doing you, and sure the best you'll be.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

Kenyan devs let's try this, tag a dev you know is badass and let them be known. The rule of the game is if you are tagged you should share either your github link or your portfolio. You can tag yourself, also you can tag more than one person. Let's do this.

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@eleliayub

10 days

You can tell there's a clear difference between ALX graduates and Moringa graduates. Both camps seem to focus on completely something different.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

No job market is saturated enough, you just have to go an extra mile, be good enough to outdo others.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 months

So this company uses Java for Android and Swift for IOS. Backend being go and GRPC and Node. Is this what heaven looks like?

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

6 months

So our app patakazi got featured on NTV techover. Almost a thousand installations so far. To small wins🍻

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

27 days

Brute force attack. 😅😅

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

5 months

I recently started working with these Foreign clients. It has made me really appreciate the power of common language. Communication can be tough when you are not on each others' first language understanding. Anyways cheers to greater heights💯🎉

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 days

Who said being the lead dev is easy? I'm leaving the office now. This is one of those nights where you earn your coin.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 months

In tech we identify a problem and build a product to solve it, then users find problems with the solution to their initial problem and now we have more problems than the initial problem.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

Huhu

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

6 months

I'm talking to this girl and she said I'm fluttering her. I was struggling not to say I use Kotlin 😅😅, there and then I realised why tech bros be really single

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 month

Underrated take 1. Always carry a bootable usb drive, you never know when you will need it 2. Have a config file of your settings and commonly used resources in a zip somewhere you can access easily. I can easily setup myself in any machine in less than 30 mins because of this.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 months

Physical meetings for devs is an alien concept. Meet the dev team at Group Lasso. What a team this is💯

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

Programmers who wear suits. Yes, I'm one of them.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 months

Friends who connect you to jobs opportunities >>>>

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

30 days

Job Alert. Positions: 1 Frontend and 1 Backend Engineer. Languages: JS, GO. (a knowledge of both is an added advantage). A solid understanding of micro services. Send your Application to lesosioayub @gmail .com Successful applicants will be responded to in the coming days.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

3 months

Play the long game. Don't target to understand a language in one week, target to be a language god in 10 yrs, don't target to make a project in 3 days, target to have useful implementations of real life problems' solutions in 2-5 yrs. Short term goals are an illusion.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 month

If you start learning programming seriously right now. By 2025 you should be able to take interview for tech roles.

daily.dev

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1 month

Only 100 days left in 2024 🤯

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@eleliayub

5 months

So nowadays someone will spin a wordpress website and be called "tech bro" or "tech babe".

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 months

Stop calling yourself junior developer. Research what senior developers are doing and how they are doing it, do the same, and stop being a junior.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 months

I walked into an office today for a client meeting, before being introduced to their HR, she bursted out "yeah, this is a developer. He looks like one". Kwani how do we look as "developers"?

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

4 months

Finally done at patakazi. Working as a tech lead and lead developer was both eye opening and educative. Thanks to the entire team at patakazi for the times we've spent together. It was an honour. Here is to a new chapter.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

Sleep is for the wicked. #patakazi mobile app coming up pretty well.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

7 months

@StephUwak A fail is only a fail only if you stay down

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 years

@MenMoneyMindset Power makes men dangerous. If you have the power to walk out off that Job, that relationship or that environment you are a powerful person. Power is ability to destroy. Everything depending on something will be at your mercies if you can destroy that something. Stay dangerous.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 month

In tech you gotta be ready for the good and bad days. The good days will be fun and rewarding but the bad days will eff-up your confidence, morale, give you insomnia and prolly make you have imposter syndrome. The good thing is, completing tasks makes that go away, I guess.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

9 months

Maturing is knowing you can't be good in all programming languages. Just pick your poison and let it kill you.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

I'll start. Toshiba core I5 16 Gigs RAM 512 Gigs Storage SSD 500 Gigs Storage HDD

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@eleliayub

1 year

Even as a full stack developer, you must have either frontend or backend as your specialty. The moment your interviewer asks what's your strongest skill and you say both, they'll realize you are not good at either of them.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

To more wins. 2024 just got better.

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@eleliayub

9 months

In tech teams always be ready to learn. Don't be the know it all. Most of the times I prefer to sit back and listen, because it is said only speak when your words are more valuable than your silence.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

Tech Bro With a Thousand meetings today.

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@eleliayub

11 months

Programmers only: What do you do to cool down when you are overwhelmed with tasks?

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

21 days

Throwing each other under the bus, just another normal day in the Kenyan tech space.

Miss Amazing

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Niko meeting na boss na backend developer anapigiwa makelele because of the work he has skipped... Wacha wamalize niseme aliniblock GitHub juu namuitisha API. 😂

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

8 months

Happy birthday to me. Let's debug this coming year. Hoping for more success

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@eleliayub

26 days

Being an S.E means being in either two states 1. Very comfortable with a certain set of skills that you feel you are not making progress 2. Stuck learning a new skills that makes you feel like you are not making enough progress

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@eleliayub

8 months

Bana I'll just stick to cloud and backend development (and devops). The frontend is tiresome and I simply can't do it. Each time I go back there, I feel like it takes me a lot of time to do very little. Respect to all front end devs from react, vue, kotlin, java (mobile) and all

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@eleliayub

6 months

Being a self taught programmer means you are the one making your own schedule and curriculum. You are the one testing and constantly evaluating the progress of your skills. It takes discipline to be a self taught dev. What was your challenge?

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@eleliayub

10 months

To more better days💯

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@eleliayub

1 month

Suggested study order of DSA 1. Arrays and Strings 2. Maps and Sets 3. Pointers 4. Stacks 5. Linked Lists 6. Binary Search 7. Sliding Window 8. Trees 9. Heaps 10. Recursive Backtracking 11. Graphs 12. Dynamic Programming

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

10 months

Tech bro kwa bedsitter setup yake ni expensive kuliko standards ya most of you.

Ritaliciousss🎀🫧

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10 months

Kuishi kwa Bedsitter hukuwa very shameful . Especially for a man

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@eleliayub

11 months

Agree or Disagree? Mobile Developement has a steep learning curve but it's more preferable in the long run due to salaries and high demand. Web Developement gives a quick entry to market but the market is saturated by devs making it hard to get high paying jobs easily.

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@eleliayub

3 months

Uber - !Kenyan Bolt - !Kenyan Uber Eats - !Kenyan Glovo - !Kenyan. We use these on a daily If we are to be the Tech giants of Africa we should at least be owning our most used service app Sam Altman said "You need to be a majority shareholder in a small market to be successful"

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

14 days

Switch from postman to swagger. You'll thank me later

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@eleliayub

1 year

Name a better feeling than this.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

21 days

STOP PUTTING PROJECTS FROM TUTORIALS AS YOUR OWN. It show how unskilled you are and that you can't come up with your own.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

Everyone says build project to learn programming. News flash, you can't just open an IDE and build projects. Here is how I ussually learn new languages, frameworks and libraries and it always works for me. 👇👇

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

8 months

When you know one programming language and one programming language only.

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@eleliayub

10 days

In the last 2 weeks I've been in contact with devs from China and India. These are top devs and surprisingly the languages they are using are: 1. node + go on the backend. 2. Java for mobile a little bit of Kotlin 3. PHP for web, (yes, I'm surprised too) 4. Also mongo db is

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

1 year

7 things to do as a tech bro or tech babe on weekends or holidays. 1. Update your CV 2. Update your linked in 3. Connect to and expand your network 4. Take sometime off screen 5. Review and update your portfolio 6. Plan for the week ahead 7. Take a walk or hike outside

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@eleliayub

5 months

let's talk of how hard it is to be good in software engineering and how clients and employers takes it for granted.

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@eleliayub

1 month

In the past week I had to get up early to plan work, review their code, almost an hr of briefing Junior Devs and PM, now get to work, sometimes midday meeting with MD, moving between sites because it's a JV, attend presentation since I'm the lead engineer. It's been crazyly good.

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@eleliayub

9 months

Linux mint is actually nice. What OS do you guys use and why? Watu wa Mac mtulie.

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@eleliayub

2 months

Pick a software field not a programming language Pick Frontend development not JavaScript Pick data science not python Pick android development not kotlin/java Pick backend development not go/python/java Pick a field first the language later

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@eleliayub

5 months

Build in public 1. Learn a skill 2. Practice the skill. Share your challenges, progress and solutions 3. Let those immediate to you know what you are doing 4. Let the rest of the world know what you are doing There's nothing more useless than having a skill that no one knows it

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

4 months

Being good in software engineering is a journey of constantly learning, doubting yourself, believing yourself, failing and getting up each day to be better than yesterday.

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Eleli Ayub

@eleliayub

2 years

@madzadev Python is a good language. Easy syntax and the learning curve is not steep. But I advice against starting with it, it makes transitioning to other languages much harder. Starting with languages such as Java, C or C++ give you the best introduction to the programming world.

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@eleliayub

1 month

As your seniority increases in the workplace so does your work amount decreases but so does its importance. I no longer spend the whole day styling buttons but the server better not be down.

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@eleliayub

1 month

The idea behind building a lot of projects is, other than solving problems you create more bugs. The more of those you solve the more you'll avoid them in the future or solve them with more ease. It's incremental, meaning you'll solve another problem hence another skill learnt.

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@eleliayub

6 months

Been coding for hours without a mouse. I love neovim so much.

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@eleliayub

9 months

Build good problem solving skills, build a network online and offline, get a mentor, practice your skills daily, build a strong GitHub repo projects display, connect with other devs, be resilient and consistent and your tech life will be prosperous.

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@eleliayub

11 months

Tech meetings be like. Leeeet meee shaaare myyyy screeeen, Caaaan youuuu seeee itt?

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@eleliayub

19 days

Today after interviewing a couple of devs I realized how much "new generation" devs depend on A.I to do the most basic coding quizzes. If this is the trend, there is going to be a very big skill gap in the near future.

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@eleliayub

11 months

Are you a backend or fronted developer? And if so state your languages and let's connect.

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2 months

When applying for a job here's the importance of things according to me resume > projects > portfolio > referral Nothing beats a referral when looking for a job. Above all get your skills high, there's nothing bad as getting a job and fumbling it due to low performance.

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6 months

In a faint attempt to level up their skills and reach their "peers level" most new devs try to learn a lot at once and forget it's not much you know, it's how well you can use what you know.

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9 months

I think I'll be transitioning to a full time backend engineer. Bana Front end is getting tiresome day in, day out.

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1 month

One con of working on big companies and on already established projects is you'll only be adding features to an already established project. You'll never setup an entire system on your own until it runs from the ground up. That's why you should do your own projects outside work.

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7 months

Devs: Mobile First or Desktop first?

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@eleliayub

1 year

1am coding. This is a lifestyle not a job.

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8 months

As a freelancer in tech, always ask for deposit money before starting any project. It will ensure confidence and seriousness from the client.

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9 months

Kenyan Tech space is rising and in demand right now like it has never been. We are trying to reach the level of countries such as US and China which at this point are deep into AI and quantum computing, levels, huhu. This means we have to skip like 20+ years of innovation and

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1 year

A short video on how to beat imposter syndrome as a programmer.

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18 days

Go is the funniest language ever. It was initially made for C++ devs, but ended up being used by Python and Ruby devs. It has a syntax close to C but simpler to learn than Python and it's the easiest language to ship even than node js.

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19 days

JS is good at one thing and one thing only. Paying bills.😅

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2 months

I blame techfluencers for the "saturated market" situation. They've lowered the standards so low and raised expectations so high. They'll promise you a job if you learn language X or Y. In reality there's more to it than they say. You are just a customer of their product/course.

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