Insights from Github’s CEO — TL;DR: Communicate Conscientiously I waltz into the office in the manner of yet another Friday morning. The week has come to an end, and I am looking to close it off as calmly as possible. I setup my operations base in a ritual to the gods of electricity and internet…

The Story of a Fallen King — Sometimes it's like if I get into an accident for real, I'd be nonchalant through it. ~ Yasky Shortly after dropping the phone call, I enter a bus. “Ojuelegba, Stadium, Barracks, Costain!!!”, the bus conductor yells out, announcing the route this bus plies to prospective passengers. “Stadium?” “Maabo” …beckoning me…

What is a Pattern? A pattern in my shortest possible description is a “method”. In software engineering, a pattern is a way to do things which have been researched and tested through time. Engineering solves a myriad of problems. Compounding solutions to these problems over time has shown some similarities. These similarities are then…

A Tale of Duck Typing — A developer stood across my desk with a perplexed look in his eyes. That look when a man hears he cannot get married to the woman of his dreams because it’s against his tradition. That look when you watch a football striker miss a shot on goal from six yards…

A conversation with the sea — I stood by the sea, and she came to me Pregnant with my possibility, see She called me by my virgin name Just before she said, "I am Atlantic." She brought gifts in conch and perewinkles Some were broken, others wrinkled "Within me is a wealth way more precious" Her waves teasing with gentle sprinkles I scooped some Atlantic with my palm To draw from the strength of her calm Wanting no hindrance, she slipped through my fingers Leaving with me what took away her calm

Yet another spiritual journey — As it is customary, one of the rituals before my birthday is to go on a journey of deep contemplation the week before; contemplate life and its meaning, ask myself “why” and some other things. This year, I went on a Slave Trade Pilgrimage to Badagry; the town of first…

‘Processing Systems’ — I don’t have a C key and a W key. The number of times I pressed those keys on my keyboard to make sure that I typed that line correctly is something unheard of. You wouldn’t imagine how far and wide such little anomalies affect your life moving forward. Writing…

How we estimate. — Estimation is one of the most difficult practices in Software Engineering. Since every software product is created in a project, the effects of effort with respect to time and cost cannot be overemphasised. Estimation is how agile teams tell the amount of effort a chunk of work would require…

There was once a time when you looked into a folder of source code and thought “My goodness, what’s going on here?” In your astonishment, all you could wonder about was what the codebase did. Now, with the advent of source control, we can ask “How did this codebase come…