I didn’t enter 2025 looking for reinvention.
After a turbulent 2024, what I wanted was steadiness. Less noise. More intention. I came into the new year with renewed energy, yes, but also with a quiet resolve to build better systems around m...
A few Sundays ago, I found myself on the rooftop of a mall restaurant, catching up with friends over a lazy lunch. As we laughed and lingered, my attention kept drifting to an elderly man seated alone a few tables away. He wasn’t eating—he was ske...
“Confidence comes from preparation. When the game’s on the line, I’m not asking myself to do something I haven’t done thousands of times before.” — Kobe Bryant
Long before I became a software engineer, I felt my f...
It’s been over three years since I last wrote on my engineering blog. Three years of growth, new experiences, and lessons learned but, also three years of silence. Not because I had nothing to say but because every time I thought about writing, an...
Freelancing is becoming a popular trend in the modern work environment. A lot of people go into freelance expecting smooth sailing. The dream is to choose their projects and do what they love when they want to. Unshackled from bureaucratic corpora...
I've been developing software using Django for a while now and over the years, there's a couple of resources and Libraries that I've come to depend on. They're tried and tested and can be easily extended to suit my needs.
I did another post...
Over the last few months, I've been asking myself what it means to be a great developer. Having looked at countless posts and from my own life experiences. There're a few myths I've come to debunk.
I started making my portfolio site as a means of getting out of tutorial purgatory that had plagued me for a long time. True to the statement above and as it has been widely preached, getting your hands dirty by building a real-world project is a ...
Starting on programming can be very exciting but at the same time scary. A lot of times I've come across articles and people highlighting the importance of having a mentor to help get your foot in the door in the industry. However, not everyone is...
In my journey into being a software engineer, nothing had plagued me more than impostor syndrome. Especially at the beginning of my journey and even now, to a certain extent. Thankfully, I am managing to fix that. Some of the #career#productivity#psychology
the story was originally posted on my personal website. This post has been a long time coming and it...