It didn’t happen. Looking back Finances: Shit Work-life balance: Decent considering… everything Learning: Okay but still shit Health: Okay, considering… 2020. Mike 1, Covid 0. Work: Could have been better. It will be. Moving on Cautious optimism but optimism nonetheless. Fuck 2020

At the end of 2018, I wrote a review unlike this one and could never bring my fingers to publish it because it was written so badly. I could not bring it to a state that I deemed satisfactory so it stayed labeled “draft” and was subsequently deleted in the…

A lot of people treat exceptions as demons that need to be exorcised and that’s right — to some extent. Nobody wants their application spilling its guts to the user. Exceptions are a feature of a lot of languages and they can either help or become a huge pain. …

If you’re learning to write software, these are a few things you should know. Get back to the basics With the number of MOOCs online, it’s become easier than ever to get started with programming. By following a tutorial with enough dedication, one can start developing a website or app in just a few weeks…

Since finishing my B.Sc program last year, a lot has happened. Not things I even get to notice immediately but when I look back, I can definitely tell the difference. Working at Crackle Nigeria for the last year has required me to grow really fast — And thankfully so. …

Over the last two weeks, a friend and I have been doing a little bit with the Mobile Vision API in our spare time. Thanks to Moyinoluwa Adeyemi’s articles and Google’s samples we’ve been able to get started. We encountered a little hiccup when we deployed the first APK. The…

There’s always been a lot of talk about PHP, with a lot of people claiming it’s a “crap” language. It was my first programming language. I know it has some shortcomings — as do all languages — but it’s been my go-to language for server-side operations. I keep telling people…

Isn’t it better to be known as the best at one thing, than to be good enough at everything? A snippet from Ire Aderinokun’s article, “A Master Of None?” This question embodies the self-opposing debate that has plagued my mind for the last 8 months. I spend most of my…

2016 has been a quick, not so funny, funny year. It’s the last day, so here are some seemingly simple lessons i learned — The hard way mostly — from it. Lesson 1: It’s all about the people I currently work at a Tech firm in Abuja, Nigeria. The Software Engineering team has just always been the…