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  • EP. 15 - 10x Developers or Not?

    EP. 15 - 10x Developers or Not?

    · forloop Pod


    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?

  • EP.14 - Building a Blockchain Startup

    EP.14 - Building a Blockchain Startup

    · forloop Pod

    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 hereConnect with Tomiwa via [email protected] our slack channel here intro and outro music: bensound - dubstep

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    Host: @kolokodess

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  • EP.13 - Yorlang : A Programming language in local dialect

    EP.13 - Yorlang : A Programming language in local dialect

    · forloop Pod

    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 hereWork your way through the Yorlang github repo hereConnect with Anuoluwapo via [email protected] our slack channel here intro and outro music: bensound - dubstep

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  • EP.12 - Marketing for Developers

    EP.12 - Marketing for Developers

    · forloop Pod

    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/taslimokunolaintro and outro music: bensound - dubstep

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  • EP.11 - Dealing with depression at work

    EP.11 - Dealing with depression at work

    · forloop Pod

    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 intro and outro music: bensound - dubstepbackground music: bensound - love

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  • EP.10 - Botpisodes

    EP.10 - Botpisodes

    · forloop Pod

    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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  • EP.9 - Leaving The African Tech Ecosystem; the right thing to do?

    EP.9 - Leaving The African Tech Ecosystem; the right thing to do?

    · forloop Pod

    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 [email protected] Register for forloop Aba here. (22nd,Feb.2019)Join expresspayghana.com!: Mail [email protected] intro and outro music: bensound - dubstep

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  • EP.8 - Welcome to 2019!

    EP.8 - Welcome to 2019!

    · forloop Pod

    Show Notes:

    forLoop Pod: Journey so farRegrets from 2018Goals for 2019Attend the forLoop Summit !2018: State of forLoop Africa Report intro and outro music: bensound - dubstep

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  • EP.7 - De-Cluttering and User Xperience in Design

    EP.7 - De-Cluttering and User Xperience in Design

    · forloop Pod

    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: [email protected] with Dev Noir on Instagram: @dev.noirCoolors.co - Helps breakdown different colors to help improve site accessibilityUserOnboard.com - Breaks down different onboarding processes used bu top companiesLittle UI details -A collections of little tips from @steveschoger to improve your visual design skillsSteve Schoger Design tips

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  • EP.6 - Fighting Imposter Syndrome and BurnOuts

    EP.6 - Fighting Imposter Syndrome and BurnOuts

    · forloop Pod

    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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  • EP.5 - My Experience leading software engineering teams

    EP.5 - My Experience leading software engineering teams

    · forloop Pod

    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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  • EP.4 - Machine learning in it's minified glory

    EP.4 - Machine learning in it's minified glory

    · forloop Pod

    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 : [email protected]

    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, Lagos

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  • EP.3 - Code Refactoring

    EP.3 - Code Refactoring

    · forloop Pod

    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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  • EP.2 - Landing your first job as an entry level developer

    EP.2 - Landing your first job as an entry level developer

    · forloop Pod

    Show Notes:

    Episode 1 recap (00:56)Concatenate Conf (2:27)Tips (5:45): Just Apply Be different in your application Know the basicsStart 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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  • EP.1 - Life as a Nigerian techie living in the Nigerian environment

    EP.1 - Life as a Nigerian techie living in the Nigerian environment

    · forloop Pod

    Show Notes:

    Intro (00:21) :Challenges (2:46): Pay / Value / Renumeration Data / Internet Light Travel (visa) #Goglobal Series by @forLoopAfrica :

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