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Jul 24, 2019
EP. 15 - 10x Developers or Not?
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?
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Jun 19, 2019
EP.14 - Building a Blockchain Startup
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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Host: @kolokodess
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Jun 5, 2019
EP.13 - Yorlang : A Programming language in local dialect
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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Host: @kolokodess
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May 22, 2019
EP.12 - Marketing for Developers
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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Apr 10, 2019
EP.11 - Dealing with depression at work
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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* background music: bensound - love
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Feb 27, 2019
EP.10 - Botpisodes
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
* intro and outro music: bensound - dubstep
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Feb 13, 2019
EP.9 - Leaving The African Tech Ecosystem; the right thing to do?
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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Host: @kolokodess
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Jan 30, 2019
EP.8 - Welcome to 2019!
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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Nov 28, 2018
EP.7 - De-Cluttering and User Xperience in Design
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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Oct 31, 2018
EP.6 - Fighting Imposter Syndrome and BurnOuts
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)
Extra Notes:
Get Inspired to tackle Imposter syndrome with this: Twitter thread by Kolokodess and Medium Article by Ore Ogundipe
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Oct 14, 2018
EP.5 - My Experience leading software engineering teams
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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Sep 16, 2018
EP.4 - Machine learning in it's minified glory
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 a…
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Aug 25, 2018
EP.3 - Code Refactoring
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 Fowler
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Aug 13, 2018
EP.2 - Landing your first job as an entry level developer
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
* #Goglobal Series by @forloopAfrica (29:30):
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Host: @kolokodess
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Aug 7, 2018
EP.1 - Life as a Nigerian techie living in the Nigerian environment
Show Notes:
* Intro (00:21) :
* Challenges (2:46):
* Pay / Value / Renumeration
* Data / Internet
* Light
* Travel (visa)
* #Goglobal Series by @forLoopAfrica :
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