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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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 Kolokodessand Medium Article by Ore Ogundipe

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• 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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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 and Data science, Lagos

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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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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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Show Notes:

• Intro (00:21) :
• Challenges (2:46):
• Pay / Value / Renumeration
• Data / Internet
• Light
• Travel (visa)

• Goglobal Series by @forLoopAfrica :

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