Yesterday's Concatenate conference showed what's possible when we give young people an opportunity to flourish and express themselves. I am so glad @codebeast@unicodeveloper and other conceived and executed this. Well done, ladies and gentlemen. Well done.
A group of Nigerian young men and women with so much help, gathered some of the finest engineers all around the world to speak in a Nigerian technology conference. This is AMAZING!!!! Like AMAZING!!!
To every organisation that sponsored the event, I am saying thank you on behalf of all the amazing attendants from yesterday. You made the last 2 days possible. Thank you.
Before now, it was hard to put a Nigerian and the Internet in the same sentence without raising eyebrows. I am so happy the narrative is changing gradually. We will keep building, speaking, writing, organising, etc. One event at a time, one article at a time.
What we need the people in power now to do is to help #EndSARS. We have honourable men and women who are working hard daily to better their lot. We aren't asking for too much, we just want the harassment to stop. Let people go about their lives with their laptops freely.
If we have been exporting oil to the world for the last 50+ years, I guess the decade will be all about exporting technology and technical talents to the world. It will be a win-win for everyone if the government can help #EndSARS.
How can they support? 1. Rewrite the computer science curriculum. 2. Make CS compulsory in the first 3 years in secondary schools. 4. Implement policies that will encourage broadband penetration. 5. #EndSARS, #EndSARS, #EndSARS, #EndSARS, #EndSARS, #EndSARS, #EndSARS
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I am not sure if this is aging or lack of general and consistent exercising, my left knee just gave in this morning while returning from breakfast. The stares were out of this world. And it hurts. Thanks to the bellhop that came to my aid.
I am not sure if this is a thing, but I think hotels should have onsite physicians for these like this. Yes, no one goes to a hotel to fall sick or something, but you never can tell.
So, I need to start taking exercising seriously. I will start with cycling.
Businesses must understand UX if they must stay competitive in today's world. Time is the greatest commodity today. Unlike any other thing, it has a fixed supply daily - 24hrs.
Last night I tried *329# for the first time. I've always been a *737# guy.
I like the near frictionless nature of 737, the former, not so great. While trying to use 329, it asked me for a few details; first name, last name, date of birth. By the time I got to the DOB part, I became frustrated and abandoned the transaction.
I just wanted airtime for God sake. Why all the hoops? It turns out, 329 is a way of onboarding new customers into the bank. You get a "tiny" account that has a cap on everything. When I realized this, my first thought was "why make me do this again? You already have my details"
Christian, God bless you and everyone involved in this. Thank you for doing this. Thank you. This is how we will change the narrative and write our own story.
These things happen because selfless people put themselves out there, do the hard work and this hard work will definitely blossom. I am really excited when I see these things.
I am also happy the world is paying attention. BTW, I have been leading/managing a remote team for two years now. If you're running a conference and you need someone to come talk about this "remote thing," reach out. I'll come share my experience gladly.
The INEC website does not have https enabled. All the asset load from the same origin - no CDN. Entire home page will set you back by at least 20MB. 108 network request to render the home page. No one thought it wise to put JS together and minify it. Same thing with CSS.
How can you, in 2018 and in good faith, serve a 5MB image. How? Isn't this wickedness? For a country where data is still not cheap. If you had paid N1,000 approximately $3 for a 1GB data, you would have spent about 2% of it just to access the home page of INEC.
For goodness sake, https is free today. Like FREE. @letsencrypt will give you free SSL. @Cloudflare will give you free SSL. Why not just use it?
So after my last blog post - "No, you don't need ML/AI. You need SQL" - so many persons reached out with questions and I figured I'd hold a round table session for just 5 persons. It will be a combination of lessons and AMA. 4 hours of serious content. Class size of 5.
We will talk about everything - 1. Understanding e-commerce financial modelling 2. Customer acquisition and retention strategy. 3. Effective marketing newsletter and retargetting. 4. Making sense of data 5. Analytics 6. Social media for e-commerce