TheDumbTechGuy
@TheDumbTechGuy
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And it is cooked! #plutonium If you are a rails dev, please take a moment to check this out. If you are not, please do too. Feedback on information clarity, documentation style, setup process etc. Any feedback you can give me, I am happy to receive. github.com/radioactive-la…
Your portfolio is not impactful because you follow random internet advice that doesn't align with your portfolio goals. You might not even have portfolio goals. Get one now. +----------+ - What do you want your portfolio to accomplish? - In 5-10 seconds, what do you want a…
I published some quick, possibly half-assed thoughts on Identity and behaviour in Object Oriented programming (with #ruby examples). Link in thread.
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“Oh no the deal is about to end” she says, rushing to order a sundress because it might go out of stock. But was she actually tricked?🤔 In this article, I break it down👇🏽👇🏽 medium.com/@noelamptey101… Kindly share your thoughts 🙏
I’m writing this article and every time i want to add an em dash, “They’ll say you use AI to write it” keeps ringing in my ears. 😭😭
Through @CursorAccra X @Cursor_AI, a new community was born, A ruby Community in Ghana. It has over 100+ members right now and still growing. Relations are being built, great products stem great possibilities. Props to the @cursor_ai team for making this happen! #CursorAccra
Can you do one for ruby?🙈 Our community name will be; Chale.rb - A ruby community for Ghanaians! cc: @TheDumbTechGuy @n_kaybio
No. Focus on the fact that he has a solution to a real problem. Whether it's perfect isn't the issue. That's why we iterate. If he sells a few, he can improve and enhance his design. Nintendo didn't start with the gameboy.
Don’t build a business for the next funding round. Build for your customers. Their trust is the real capital.
Identified a real problem Developed an effective solution That's how you make money
Qbox Generator Noise Canceler.. Impressive innovation!
My last best friend relationship was in JSS1. Or JHS1 for ya'll kiddos. Never made an actual best friend again since. Good friends, but no best friends. Shit was so bad, dude actually wrote me a letter (Yes! via slow) mail apologising a couple years later.
Hotwire Using turbo morph + smooth scrolling has the most amazing effects when you transition pages. It's just so cool.
Regretting their life choices
All men should do this. It's a huge hack. Don't put the stress of your day on your family. It's a high 1 minute ROI.
As a @laravelphp and nodejs person used to certain luxuries such as dotenv-expansion, I didn't get that in golang using goviper. Found an issue on it, open since 2017 and I've solved it, for my use case. gist.github.com/anabeto93/75f6… @KiddBubu @TheDumbTechGuy @ace_rbk @themsaid
One cool practice I picked up from @bullettrainco is these comments in models (used for generators). Has come in useful with LLMs for organizing model code. They just put it in the right place.
Having never played the upwork game myself. There were a lot of bangers in this space. Learned quite a bit myself.
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We all need money from others from time to time. The key is to not be a beggar. Pay your debts on time. Be credit worthy.
X boys will never agree to this! Wh3 Anaa? 👇🏽👇🏽 youtu.be/RDpHJYY8lAA?si…
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An interesting thing about building simple interfaces is that the implementations tend to be quite complex. Take Rails as an example. Very simple interface. Feels so easy to use. But the internals....
As I've said countless times. Simple doesn't mean easy. Simple is actually quite hard. But simple must be your goal.
complexity first, simplicity second people say “keep it simple,” but most approach it backwards. they start from simple, then add on complexity without seeing the whole. that’s how you end up with frankenstein products: clean-looking components awkwardly stitched together, held…