lesson The Delivery Man I was at a child dedication a couple weeks ago. As you can imagine, the guys at the event huddled up at a corner with our bottles of beer discussing guy things. The
music Work Station: Popsicle (Week 1) Anyone that has been reading this blog for a while knows that music is an essential part of my work process. In my quest of finding the best playlist or songs to get
Dark Patterns It is late at night. You have Google Maps open on your phone and you have your phone hooked up to your car stereo speakers, this way you can listen to music and
learning Happy New Year!🎉 Considering it is the middle of 2018 I understand "Happy New Year!" is a weird thing to read. Looking at my last post, it has been slightly over a year and one week since I last posted anything
Crypto in the Hood CryptoCurrency Yo fam, so you have heard about crypto? but you be wondering what it is all about? imagine having Gwap but the digital kind, this gwap is special because unlike the music
Designing for Joy It's 10am and I am on my second cup of coffee... I can already see it is going to be one of those days. I have not been writing because I have been
Lessons learned from Office hours with Patrick Mckenzie (@patio11) 🔑 Two weeks ago I was in Las Vegas at the tail end of my vacation to attend MicroConf. Microconf is a Conference for individuals who want to run a self-funded startup. Although the
Should you become a developer? A question I get all the time is "Adim does it make sense for me to become a developer now? I want to become a developer but I think the train has
Konami Code Between the age of 8 and 12 I was a big Street Fighter II fan. I played every chance I could. I was amazed the first day I learned about a combination of
One Byte at a time How Do You Eat An Elephant?: One Bite at a Time. This is a quote I have used recently to keep myself in check. I have been recently working on an inventory and
Putting play first "If money was not an object, what would you do for work?" I usually ask that question when I am trying to get to know someone a little better. People say
Put a price on it! One of the biggest motivation killers in releasing a side project is deciding when it is complete enough to be sent into the wild. Almost two years ago I wrote a post about
You do not need an App for that A pattern I consistently notice with my Nigerian clients in the last two years is that they are unclear of what they need technology to do for them. They just know they want
How to pitch a Technical Co-Founder I read a question on Quora once that went something like "How do I get a developer to work for me for free" and someone replied saying "Have you heard
Your code makes me fat! When our brain manages a high cognitive load, it depletes our resources for willpower and self-control. That was the finding of a Stanford researcher Professor Baba Shiv in 1999 when he did an
Quick and easy steps to a maintainable and healthy codebase As a child, my mom drilled into my sister and I that whenever we slept over at a friends or family members house we should always leave the house equal to or better
The most important skill needed by indie developers "This app is tooooo bad!" my friend exclaimed when I showed him a website I made. He said this the way someone might call their girlfriend a Bad Bitch when she
Where there is no Project Manager Growing up we had a book in our house called "Where there is no Doctor". This is a healthcare book written for developing countries to tackle some basic healthcare issues in
An expensive line of code I was talking to my dad today, he told me that the first computer he bought had 128MB of hard drive storage and we laughed. It cost more than a MacBook today. In
What to do when you are asked to build the world A while ago I saw a post on Radar of a developer who was given the task to replicate Woo-commerce and was given two months to do so, he was having problems digesting
Don't over think things... It is not hard to make a difference My friend Ben and I have a running joke. We frequently send each other links to stories or products that are making a ton of cash but doing something technically straight forward. We
learning You are not your code At my first job out of college, It was normal to hear someone exclaim out of frustration when they ran into some poorly constructed code. Most developers on the team were quick to
music Coding music: Part 2 Similar to the first post I wrote about, movie soundtracks that are great for developing software. This is a list of albums that are chill, futuristic and melodic. The tracks in these albums
how to How to be disastrous at programming Chess is my favorite board game of all time! Growing up I played a lot of Chess. From time to time, all that thinking gets a bit tiring and sometimes I just want