The ebook version of my book "Exceptionally Hilarious: Jokes to Debug Your Day" is finally out!🎉
It's a collection of programming humor packed with puns, anecdotes, and relatable jokes that capture the joys (and frustrations) of being a developer😅
🔗
Excited to launch another project I have been working on 😅
Introducing DesignMate, your AI-powered interior design assistant.
Simply send it a picture 📸 of any room, tell it your style and color preferences, and get amazing designs🎨 inspirations of your room
Constitutional matters are often hard for the average person to grasp. They're full of legal jargon and sections and subsections of fulcrum and pith. But what if AI could change this?
Introducing Civic Guru! 🚀
An AI-powered assistant that simplifies the Zimbabwean Constitution
One day I'll share with the timeline how I proposed last year.
Nice romantic setup, private with candles, balloons, and an overrated musician that she loved, that I can't listen to anymore.
She still said NO.
Hazvina formula zvinhu izvi ‼️
On Friday, the RBZ introduced a new currency, ZiG, replacing the hyper-inflationary ZWL. We're still in the dark on many things, but what we know for now is that it's gold-backed 💪 & has a QR code.
Let's ignore the gold for a sec & let's break down the QR code.
A thread🧵
#ZiG
I made ChatGPT generate a picture of a stressed software developer👨💻
For every 5 likes this picture gets, I'll get his boss to give him more work & tighter deadlines, making him even more stressed
@ZimDevelopers
I just finished working on a new cool AI project 🔥
Who wants to test it out?
I will give you free credits 💵 in exchange for your feedback 🤝
It's an AI-powered 🤖 interior design assistant that can help you redesign your space 🎨
Hot take🌶️but I think certifications are useless for developers
Technologies change and frequently face breaking changes. The real skills is you being able to learn something new and apply it to a functioning product.
Munhu waDeveloper wandira kuma projects💪
WE DID IT !
CIVIC GURU has just passed 1000 users 😅. It feels surreal for something launched just last week.
Thank you to everyone who shared & tried it out, I'm truly grateful🙏🏽
FYI, this is pure organic traffic, mainly from Twitter.
Next target 10k 😅
Beyond excited to be profiled in the
@HeraldZimbabwe
this morning 😅
This is part of an ongoing initiative by the
@ZSE_ZW
to inspire new retail investors to start investing!
Inside I share my investment journey & lessons I have learnt on the way (link below)
TikTok just beat out
@Google
to be the world's most popular domain 🤯
With over 1 Billion active users, the short-form video app can no longer be ignored.
Want to learn the secret to TikTok's viral growth & see why it's shaping up to beat Facebook & IG, read on!
A thread 🧵
The ZSE has been in free-fall for the last 5 months.
It's been a bloodbath, and many have lost significantly. Are you confused about what to do next?
Here is some advice from awesome folks here on Twitter to help you along ⬇️
A thread🧵🔥
It's sad that I have l to say this, but I think our generation romanticizes soft life a bit too much.
Unless you're born into a rich family, this stage of your life is supposed to be hard. It's time to work & build for the future. To save & invest so your kids can have it easy!
Thrilled to share that I've been selected for the 2024 cohort of the
@accountlabzw
Incubator!🚀
I am excited to be learning more on Accountability & Civic Engagement, and I am looking forward to using my passion for Tech in the Civic Space to drive Impact & Change 💡🌍
@spokesmash
@SKamhunga
@mathe260
Not necessarily. Jobs did go into making the hardware & programming the software. Jobs went into installation & jobs will go into maintaince of these machines. The keys is equipping the youth & future generations with the right skills, the fourth industrial revolution is upon us.
Yesterday during a discussion with some accountant friends, I jokingly said "CAs shouldn't be CEOs, their default strategy is increasing prices & cuttung costs without adding any value"
Imagine my shock finding out the CIMAS CEO is a CA😂
@TendaiDara
@andrea_hoxbucks
@ChadMhako
So
@CimasMedical
is INCREASING their premiums by almost 50%, while at the same time REDUCING membership benefits🤦♂️
All this while not providing a money-back plan, meaning if I don't get sick the whole year, they simply walk away with ALL my money🙌
Make it make sense🤦♂️🤦♂️
Hie guys👋
Join us this Thursday as
@arthutira
, a Software Engineer at Apple, shares insights on Software Testing and writing quality code. 🧑💻
We'll also have a Q&A session, so come prepared! 📝
📅: 11 July 🕒: 8-10 pm
📍: Zim Tech Discord
🔗:
2023 was a great year 🙏🏽
Launched 2 digital products 🚀
Released 1 open source library 🫱🏾🫲🏽
Wrote a dev joke book 📚
6 of my articles ranked
#1
on Google 📈
Met a lot of awesome people 🫂
Failed a lot & learned lessons a lot of lessons🤕
2024, we're doing it bigger 💪🏾
The sad reality of it all is that no one is coming to save you.
You need to wake up every day & be intentional in creating the life that you want.
This tweet is specifically for those in their twenties. We only have a few more years until they start calling us old 😂
So
@CimasMedical
is INCREASING their premiums by almost 50%, while at the same time REDUCING membership benefits🤦♂️
All this while not providing a money-back plan, meaning if I don't get sick the whole year, they simply walk away with ALL my money🙌
Make it make sense🤦♂️🤦♂️
Hie there 👋
I'm Mike, a tech enthusiast based in Zimbabwe. I am a huge believer in knowledge sharing and the potential it has for creating a better society.
I tweet informative threads on Tech, Startups & Investments...
Below are some of my threads ⬇️
The tweet is now deleted but still no apology🚮
@begottensun
come back & set the record straight
You tagged my employers here, come back & tell them you made a mistake
Super excited to be a mentor for this year's Google Developer Africa Scholarship Program. Grateful to
@Andela
&
@googleafrica
for the opportunity to give back to the dev community.
Looking forward to meeting a lot of budding new developers. Are you taking part in
#GADS2020
?
The Ballons are mine today 😅🙏🏽
Today I turn 27, that's 9855 days on this beautiful earth 🌎. With each rotation of the earth's axis, I grow & hopefully learn something new.
Here is what I've learnt so far...
9855 lessons from my 9855 days of existence🔥
A thread 🧵
Hey guys 👋
Last month we won first place in
@getsentry
and
@hackernoon
's
#MobileDebugging
writing contest. Let's do it again this month 🤝. Check out my article submission on how you can use ChatGPT for debugging
Please like, share, and comment 🙏
Happy Cake Day to me 🥳🎉🎉
Grateful for another year of life, and thankful for all the amazing strangers I've met on this platform🙏🏽. You people are amazing 🤝🏽
Here's to
#Chapter28
of the growth project 🍻
Are you enjoying using Civic Guru? 🏦
We're dedicated to keeping knowledge and access to it free for all! 📚
To maintain this project, we need your support. If you , please consider donating to help us cover costs🙏
Minister of ICT, Hon Dr T.A Mavetera & her Deputy, Hon D Phuthi held a familiarization meeting with representatives of the ICT sector in Zimbabwe/ She said the doors of her offices were open to sector members with ingenious ICT ideas of midwifing an upper middle-class Zim by 2030
I just designed and deployed a website from start to finish in an hour using Canva🔥
The funny thing is I hated front-end & I am terrible with design, but
@canva
makes it feel easy.
I still need to work on it, but it's a crazy good hello world ⇨
I really just built a Chrome extension (something I've never done and know nothing about) in under 30 minutes using AI🤯
I just described what I wanted to build & guided AI through all the errors & actually have a functioning app.
The future is exciting 🔥
Super happy to announce I'm now a Gitlab Certified CI/CD Specialist 😅. Super excited to go out and use this new superpower in my Dev WorkFlow.
#DevOps
#100DaysOfCode
Thank you
@gitlab
@john_cogs
Hie guys 👋🏽
So my friend has a YouTube channel that covers tech content in Zim. She's 33 subscribers away from reaching 1k followers & monetizing her channel. Please help me help her reach her goal.
Sending ZiG to all those who will subscribe😅
Here is the link if you're
Had a lot of fun at today's
@gdg_harare
#BuildWithAI
event🔥
I gave a talk on how to start implementing AI solutions that solve real-world problems & met a lot of amazing techies😅
S/O to
@ImpactHubHarare
for being such great hosts &
@BandeBrandon
& team for setting it up👏🏽👏🏽
My year so far 😅
I've managed to run 3 marathons 3 months in. Met a lot of incredible people 🤝🏽, managed to greatly reduce my alcohol consumption🧘♂️ & I honestly feel like I'm in the best shape of my life 💪🏾
Kune vese vakajambwa neE-creator mawanirwa nyasha 😅
Normally, you need 10-20 years to pay off a mortgage, but because this is zim, just invest 1k once off in this scheme & you could own a house in 2½ years.
Within 72 hours we have managed to raise $25800+ our target is $100000k
Sahwira opportunity doesn't say ndauya zvimwe zvoda kuwona nemeso . With just $500-$1000 minimum investment you can end up owning a house after 2.5yrs Thread 💰Crowd Funding buying students accommodation
Dear Young Person
Enjoyment is nice and all, but be sure to set aside time for personal & professional development.
Understand that if you are not growing, your problems probably are.
Had a great time on Friday as I met & shared a talk with the students at Uncommon's Mbare Hub.
I gave tips on tech career growth & shared insights on how I see AI advancements impacting the industry.
I was impressed by their passion & curiosity. The future of tech is safe🚀
🚀🩺 AI in Zimbabwe's Healthcare🧬🤖
Let's face it our healthcare is a mess, it’s unfortunate, but it’s true. Something needs to change, something has to change. I personally think Artificial Intelligence can do a bit to help. Here’s my 2 cents as a techie.
A thread! 👇
Had an awesome weekend engaging and networking with the tech community 🔥
Friday was at
@afrosoftH
giving a tech talk on Generative AI, and then I spent my Saturday at
@OrgUncommon
with
@girlsintechzw
, learning how to teach kids the amazing Scratch programming language by MIT.
Hey guys 👋
Are you ready for our bi-weekly tech session on Thursday?
This week we have a very special guest:
@marlene_zw
, a Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft, who will be sharing on AI Agents🔥
⏲: Thursday 27 June
📍: Zim Tech Discord Server
🔗:
Hearing a lot of junior devs arguing about the best programming language or how 'framework Y is better Z'. Your clients don't care about all that😂
If it works for you great, but remember at the end of the day all code compiles to assembly. Pick what works and build🏗️😂
Calling all devs🔊
I'm doing free deliveries today😅. Get your copy of this amazing developer joke book for only $5 (Promotional price)
DM me to reserve your copy & organize delivery 🤝🏾
@ZimDevelopers
@DataScienceZim
@codebytes_zw
CIVIC GURU UPDATE 🚨
After a long struggle with ZISPA, I'm glad to announce we've finally registered the domain 🎉
1.5k users so far & new features coming next week!
Thank you for your support thus far 🙏🏽
This weekend I decided to start working on a side project to stop thinking about a girl and I accidentally ended up creating a masterpiece😅
I should really get heartbreaks more often😂😂😂
Anyways, I just called
@CimasMedical
, and the call centre guy legit said, " I hear you, I understand, I agree with you but it's out of my hands"😂😂🙌
I felt bad for him, he is probably receiving 100s of those calls. He even gave me emails of guys who will probably bluetick me😂
A lot of people here have been asking me about stocks and investing on the
@ZSE_ZW
.
Below I try and explain what stocks are and how to start investing in them through the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
A THREAD🧵
Fast forward a month and I've now made over 1k usd on a hobby I used to do for free 😅
A special thanks to
@The_GreatBonnie
for starting me off on my technical writing journey 🙏
Any JS devs working with
@PesepayZW
?
I noticed their client library was last updated 2 years ago, so I wrote my own😅
It's easy(ier) to use 🤝, lightweight⚡️ and has full typescript support 🔥
It's also open-source, in case anyone whats to contribute
Finally meet up with
@gtchakama
at
@afriblocks
' Freelancers Summit & he got a copy of "Exceptionally Hilarious: Jokes to Debug your Day".
Thanks for the support bro 🙏🏽
We did it, WE WON 🎉
Thanks to everyone who supported me, I'm truly 🙏🏽. We managed to get $600 for first place & most read story for
@hackernoon
's
#MobileDebugging
contest
Hey guys 👋
Please check out my latest article for
@hackernoon
. It's for the
#MobileDebugging
contest by
@getsentry
. Would really appreciate it if you gave it a read.
As always, your feedback is greatly valued. Free feel to like and leave a comment 🤝
Veni Vidi Vici 🎖
I managed to run my first half marathon yesterday. It wasn't a walk in the park, but I'm glad I managed to conquer it 😅
Can't wait for the next one 🤞🏽
#CBZMarathon
Happy to announce I have just completed my Product Manager Nanodegree with
@udacity
🥳🥳.
Really learned a lot and super excited to use this newfound knowledge to build better products🙂
Special SO to
@DexterButho
who unknowingly motivated to do it. Thanks bro!
A lot of people believe you need to be a software engineer to build digital products. People with great ideas end up giving up on them cause they can't afford to hire developers.
Well, here's a secret, you can develop your ideas yourself using
#NoCode
Here's how (a thread) 🧵
@levelsio
@joaoaguiam
Implement an action (function call) for authentication & tell the GPT it is the first step of the chat & it should only converse with logged in users.
Auth could be as simple as asking for a code & having the user type that in & your server validating it.
Zim Tech Community now has a YouTube Channel! 🎉
This will be your go-to hub for:
🗓️ Our Thursday sessions
💡 Project showcases
📸 Event highlights
🧑💻 Developer profiles
🌟 Community stories
Subscribe and join us on this tech journey:
“Africa itself is also a source of solutions. There is no doubt that the challenge of global inequality can only be addressed by working together.” Pres Kagame
#UNGA
Hiring a developer is hard😤
Many people get duped because they don't know how and where to find good developers.
Introducing Hire a Techie🔥. Just fill out your job details once and reach over 500+ devs in the Zim Tech Community instantly.
Link:
Hey Zim Techies, Where You At? 👀
We've just launched an all-new Discord server for the Zim Tech Community
Developers 💻, Data scientists 📊, UI/UX designers 🎨, Cybersecurity experts 🔐, Product managers 📈, Hardware devs 🛠 and all who have an interest in tech.
Join below⬇️
For those who aren't familiar with my account, this is clearly SATIRE.
@nustzim
produces arguably the best graduates in the country (myself included😅). But we're not there yet.
Academia needs more practical based learning & better funding to get to these heights
#Vision2030
2024 I'm focusing on growth🌱
Sharing my goals here so you can keep me accountable:
1️⃣ Build & launch digital products🚀
2️⃣ Write more ✍️ - sharing ideas and technical content
3️⃣ Network more🤝 - attend, speak at, and host tech events
Will update you monthly on how it's going
Excited to launch another project I have been working on 😅
Introducing DesignMate, your AI-powered interior design assistant.
Simply send it a picture 📸 of any room, tell it your style and color preferences, and get amazing designs🎨 inspirations of your room
When it's all said and done, I really hope we come out stronger as a community from all this.
Lot of lessons and opportunities for improvement.
Let's help each other build & become better through it💪🏾
Last year, I released "Exceptionally Hilarious: Jokes to Debug Your Day", a joke book for developers🚀
I sold 50 copies in 2 weeks and then I went quiet.
I know people probably thought I shelved the project, but I was taking time to listen to feedback & perfect the book.
🧵
So last week, I ran 22km, half the nation's age, for its birthday (Independence Day)
Today, I decided to do the same for myself.
It's a cool new tradition that I might just keep 😅
Happy Cake Day to me 🥳🎉🎉
Grateful for another year of life, and thankful for all the amazing strangers I've met on this platform🙏🏽. You people are amazing 🤝🏽
Here's to
#Chapter28
of the growth project 🍻
Excited to share that I've completed the API Producer learning path from Postman Academy!
Amazing to see how
@Postman
has grown from just a tool used to perform API requests to a comprehensive API management platform with documentation, testing, mocking & monitoring built-in 😅
Mthuli has to be the hardworking minister in history.
The man truly never rests looking for ways to get the most out of the people . Literally, everywhere you look, there's a new tax🤦🏾♂️
In the words of the
@begottensun
#Kwachu
Dear All
I'm taking a month-long break from twitter. I"ve found the discourse on this platform is getting rather toxic, especially among
#Twimbos
. We're in a mess yes, but rather than go online & shout, I implore
#Twimbos
to unite and work towards building lasting solutions.
So
@CimasMedical
is INCREASING their premiums by almost 50%, while at the same time REDUCING membership benefits🤦♂️
All this while not providing a money-back plan, meaning if I don't get sick the whole year, they simply walk away with ALL my money🙌
Make it make sense🤦♂️🤦♂️