Software Engineer | Product Builder | Fintech | Logistics. Building though - @first_softwaree

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Joined January 2022
I Joined the Hacktoberfest Week 2 "Side Hustle" challenge on @ThePracticalDev. To build on open weight models and get a paying customer. My question: can cheap open source models design AND code a decent landing page? So I built Skulptor, an agent skill for exactly that. 🧵
🤖 Made with AI
I never really paid attention to open source but this year I am getting a bit curious about contributing. Surprisingly no one is talking about Hacktoberfest like before. What Happened? Any tips? @Samson_Goddy @swacblooms
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Tune in tomorrow on @ThePracticalDev!
What actually happens when you send a request to an LLM? Gateway → tokenizer → router → queue → prefill → decode → streamed back to you, one token at a time. I'm tracing the whole trip tomorrow at Hacktoberfest 2026. ⚡ Thu, Oct 22 online @ 10am PT / 1pm ET link below 👇
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What am I hearing about Ebola in Abuja today? Tomorrow, we’ll hear that the government has approved ₦40 billion to fight Ebola.
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I really need to get used to making decisions without overthinking the possible outcomes. worst case scenario, I get a negative response, best case scenario, it changes my life.
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How I stay consistent with my 365 Days of Code challenge. A lot of people have been asking me how I manage to show up every day, write code, build projects, and share updates everyday. Here’s what has helped me: 1. I don’t wait for motivation. Some days I’m excited to code. Other days, I just want to rest. I’ve learned not to depend on how I feel. I show up regardless. 2. I work on real projects. I’m not just coding for the sake of completing the challenge. I work on products, experiment with new technologies, fix bugs, and build features. Having something meaningful to work on makes it easier to keep going. 3. I document my progress. Sharing what I’m building publicly gives me a way to track my growth. When I look back at older posts, I can see how far I’ve come, and that motivates me to keep going. 4. I don’t try to do everything in one day. I don’t just wake up and start coding randomly. I create a plan for what I want to build and break it down into features I can implement step by step. This gives me direction and helps me stay focused. 5. I focus on showing up, not being perfect. There are days when things don’t go as planned. I’ve learned that consistency isn’t about having a perfect routine; it’s about finding a way to keep moving forward. I’m currently on this journey, and one thing I’ve learned is that consistency becomes easier when you build a system around it instead of relying on motivation alone. You don’t have to do something extraordinary every day. Just make sure you’re moving forward. If you’re working on a long-term goal, start today. Document your progress, stay accountable, and keep going. I’m currently building Coddle Learn, an open source platform for developers and techies to learn, practice and build their portfolio.
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After my engagements in Manchester, I honoured another impromptu engagement in Birmingham, UK, with a group of Nigerians having their annual general meeting. Our discussions centered on achieving our collective purpose of building a New Nigeria that works for all, which is centered on tackling corruption and electing competent leaders with capacity, character, compassion and commitment, to unite, secure, and move the nation from consumption to production. A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
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Honestly, I'm not satisfied yet. The designs still play it too safe. But the progress shows more is possible, and I learned a lot very fast. Big thanks to @BackboardIO for credits and R-CLI coding harness, which handles every experiment.
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We don’t need more job search platforms, we need more actual jobs
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I still use outray to test webhooks till this day, really solid work
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Building Brimble is the hardest thing i've done in my life and to be honest I am kind of suprised to see it's still standing, it's so crazy because we don't support local builders enough and if it's in S.F it's the other way round 1) You get constantly compared to vercel/railway and it's sad because if you want to get people in this space to use it to you need to ship features to the quality they have already set (either same quality or you go higher) 2) After shipping almost the same quality, local users here still force you to make decisions by cutting cost of your product, just because you want them to use it and at the end of the day, you still get compared and you even have no choice. 3) I and abraham have been constantly bootstrapping the product for the last 4 years, so we only scale on demand. We don't have the luxury to throw money into compute unncessarily. 4) There were different iterations of the product just to get PMF, the directions changed about 2-3 times between the years. 5) oh fine, "enterprise" has the money. But at the same time, you need a good amount of money to get the licenses to support enterprise and at the same time, some enterprise will look down on you especially when it's just 2 engineers managing the product, ever since we got the idea in 2022. You do performance and security audits yourself, you need to be extremely stable (just with a team of 2 and after all that, you still get compared. It's very much fine, but nobody gives a damn) 6) Brimble literally has everything (databases, sandboxes, fullstack deployments, autoscaling, static outbound ips e.t.c). Strived to succeed 7) You are also trying to pitch to investors, in a case where some of them don't have a clue or the nuances involved in what you are building. The best everyone has to do is support local products, supporting local products even gives you as a user a ton of advantage. You control the type of features you want, the prices is very affordable for you, you'd get the maximum support you need without having to send emails or wait for 3 business days to get feedbacks. A few angels really believes in the vision and fingers crossed, really love it. But at the end of the day, it still seems you aren't good enough for people to use you. I'm extremely grateful for people that took all of these out of their mind to actually support us in terms of using the product end to end. Sharing reasonable feedbacks and also sticking around even when it had issues. If i have the opportunity to do this again, i would peacefully decline.
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Me and my team had a successful meeting this morning 😊💪
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Is your business outgrowing your manual tracking tools? 👇 If your team is still managing daily operations out of paper notebooks, chaotic spreadsheets, or messy WhatsApp chats, you are losing valuable time and money.
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Nice. I just started experimenting with this model. It's incredibly cheap and quite decent at coding
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
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I disagree
bruh life is long. you need to learn how to sit through hard days and not do or say anything stupid.
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Exactly, to innovate and experiment ideas. You need a mental excess that is not bothered about survival.
We underestimate how much human potential gets crushed by the struggle to survive. Somewhere, there’s a genius working double shifts who hasn’t had the energy to create anything in months because they’re too fucking exhausted just trying to stay afloat.
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