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Django Querysets, a Quick Intro
Django Querysets, a Quick Intro
Django Querysets are one of the most powerful tools available to you as a developer. And there’s a lot of it really interesting stuff that…
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Jun 25, 2019
Django — 10 Things Worth Doing
Django — 10 Things Worth Doing
Make three/two separate settings files
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Jul 17, 2018
If You’re Serious about Coding, Begin Now with these Steps
If You’re Serious about Coding, Begin Now with these Steps
Hi, thank for you clicking on this article! I am hoping that reading this will change your life.
AP Jama
Jun 7, 2018
How the Home Office Uses Language Science to Keep the Foreigners Out
How the Home Office Uses Language Science to Keep the Foreigners Out
Being an asylum seeker is very peak. You’ve most likely just done the maddest of journeys. You’re tired, disorientated and fearful that…
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May 3, 2018
Finding Delicious Music on Somali Youtube
Finding Delicious Music on Somali Youtube
I’m looking for a song. I can’t remember any of the lyrics, but there’s a really catchy hook. The singer says “wow” a total of 120 times…
AP Jama
Mar 21, 2018
What Keeping a Journal for 12 Years Taught Me
What Keeping a Journal for 12 Years Taught Me
I never really had a journal as a child. I wasn’t reflective and didn’t feel the need to write anything down. I wanted to spend every…
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Mar 8, 2018
Traces of Social Protocol and the Self
Traces of Social Protocol and the Self
This is a photo I took years ago. It’s probably one of my favourite photos. I went through a phase where I experimented with film…
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Mar 1, 2018
Listen to this Recording of a Somali Nomad From the 1931 Paris Expo
Listen to this Recording of a Somali Nomad From the 1931 Paris Expo
From the mid nineteenth century onwards, colonial powers began to hold these “World fairs”. The aim was simple: how do we introduce the…
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Feb 1, 2018
The Centre Cannot Hold — Modernity in Somali Theatre
The Centre Cannot Hold — Modernity in Somali Theatre
I am often struck about how much my sense of humour has changed in the past decade. My humour, it would seem, has been reduced to a series…
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Jan 30, 2018
Your Future Jobs Needs Your Help
Your Future Jobs Needs Your Help
Historically, learning was done in the classroom. You would finish school at say 16, you’ve enough skills to be employed for life. If you…
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Jan 10, 2018
This Is What I Did to Get My First Developer Job
This Is What I Did to Get My First Developer Job
I started programming just under 12 months ago. Around six weeks ago, I landed my first junior developer job. My background isn’t in…
AP Jama
Dec 27, 2017
Why Somali Nouns Are a Hot Mess
Why Somali Nouns Are a Hot Mess
Somali language is pretty interesting. It does a lot of things efficiently and some things not so efficiently. I saw an article a few years…
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Dec 22, 2017
Variables and Containers — Python 101
Variables and Containers — Python 101
Python is a really cool language. It’s pretty easy to learn. Lots of companies are using it, which means that they’re always hiring! It has…
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Dec 20, 2017
Syrian Civil War — Myths, Stories and the Arts
Syrian Civil War — Myths, Stories and the Arts
When the Syrian civil war began in 2011, nobody expected for it to last this long. But it did, and over 400,000 casualties later, some 7…
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Dec 2, 2017
Cuba — a Country Where the Cars Are Super Old
Cuba — a Country Where the Cars Are Super Old
Our plane lands first thing in the morning. Can’t say I had the best flight tbh. In-flight meal was some dead flavourless cod with a side…
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Nov 17, 2017
Complete Intro into Natural Language Processing
Complete Intro into Natural Language Processing
You and I speak a language. Most people speaks at least one language. We’ve probably not had to think very hard about how we’ve learnt this…
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Oct 13, 2017
How to Get Good at Learning Languages
How to Get Good at Learning Languages
I enjoy learning langauges. It’s a hobby of mine. I have learnt loads of languages. I have taught languages in schools, to corporate groups…
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Sep 27, 2017
Kids Do the Darndest Things; How Children Learn Language Using Maths
Kids Do the Darndest Things; How Children Learn Language Using Maths
There is a great deal that we do know about first language acquisition. We know for instance that we, as humans, are more sensitive to the…
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Sep 19, 2017
Somali Music isn’t Shit Now, it’s Just Different
Somali Music isn’t Shit Now, it’s Just Different
It was difficult for Somali musicians to make a living before the two national radios were on the air. Radio Hargeisa and Radio Mogadishu…
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Aug 31, 2017
Somalia’s Forgotten Dialects
Somalia’s Forgotten Dialects
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I’d be glad to read him.” — Saul Bello.
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Aug 9, 2017
Six Pieces of Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me When I Started Coding
Earlier this year, I decided that it was time to learn how to code. I made a decision to focus on learning a programming language called…
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Aug 5, 2017
Q: Describe one of your favorite books/films and why it means so much to you?
Candid by Voltaire. I read it in year 11. I wasn’t a big reader at the time. I used to get into a lot of trouble at school, and didn’t have…
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Jul 5, 2017
Somali Linguistics # 1: Xalwad and Fanaanad
We’re often being told about how vastly different Somali dialects are. And this, for a lot of us, is a source of humour. There’s the…
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May 7, 2017
The Akhi in All of his Case Endings — an Exploration of Arabic usage Amongst London Somali Akhis
Akhi/Ukhti
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Apr 25, 2016
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