Matt A.

Full Stack Developer 👨🏾‍💻 | Gamer 👾 | Fitness Enthusiast 🏃🏾‍♂️ | Dog Person 🐶

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Really interested in working with Nigerian tech startups/NGOs but I rarely see any buzz about them - I’d love to hear from you if you know any impactful organisations looking for volunteers!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I'm neither a music journalist nor an Afrobeats specialist. What I do have is the ability to do research and spot patterns.

Patterns like how EVERY SINGLE TIME a new export product emerges from Nigeria, it takes a maximum of 20 years for it to end up fully controlled by the same group of American muzungus.

Oil & Gas - Controlled by them from the start

Agric commodities - Controlled by them from the start

Nollywood - Developed independently and built out a vast global market and ingenious distribution system by itself. Today, it is somehow completely hostage to Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube.

Afrobeats - Similar growth story to Nollywood. Now dominated by Lucian Grainge and his new army of male and female 'Afrobeats' artists who look like racially ambiguous K-pop idols.

Outsourcing and Freelancing - Somehow Nigeria doesn't have a single major indigenous BPO provider despite having Africa's deepest a
nd most sought-after talent pool. Market control has ended up in the hands of Andela and Microsoft.

Everytime you people build something, an American muzungu with dollars materialises out of thin air and ends up taking it easy from you either to completely monopolise it and ensure you get zero value from it, or to park it on a shelf somewhere.

If you're cursed with the deadly ability to recognise patterns, you will spot a pattern of predatory behaviour.

But if not, then it's just a coincidence and anyone who notices it is a conspiracy theorist who is jealous of your special relationship with your muzungu dollar blesser.

Samahani kaka.

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

It’s almost funny the contrast between the treatment of protesters in Nigeria and rioters in the UK. From the language of officials to the conduct of security forces, and even the treatment of the perpetrators of attacks and destruction.

[Zedcrest Wealth @ZedcrestWealth]

Sharp-sharp money highlights the risks of deceptive companies promising high returns in a short period. It emphasizes the importance of financial smartness and due diligence.

Don't be a victim – become a wise investor!

#ZedcrestWealth #Workwithmoney

[Zedcrest Wealth @ZedcrestWealth]

We are on a journey to make 1 million Nigerians financially literate in 12 months.

Is it possible?

A thread:

[Kasedo Games @KasedoGames]

To celebrate the Difficulty Options update, we are giving away a copy of IXION over £250 worth of Corsair hardware to give you the ultimate IXION experience.

1️⃣ Follow KasedoGames and @CORSAIR
2️⃣ RT this tweet

Competition ends 22nd May

Ts&Cs apply 👇

#competition #ixion

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Starting May off with a terrible cold, but it’s gonna be an awesome month that brings growth, progress and ease.

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

For reference, I’m a full stack cloud developer with 3+ years of experience from dynamic, responsive front ends, to scalable RESTful APIs.

Still working on showcasing some of my finished projects at https://t.co/qcOALxVGua, but check out https://t.co/NbhV8Djmfc for all my work

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Really interested in working with Nigerian tech startups/NGOs but I rarely see any buzz about them - I’d love to hear from you if you know any impactful organisations looking for volunteers!

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Just finished an assessment I’ve been working on all week and I can vehemently say that Typescript is garbage 💀💀💀

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Really tempted to switch back to Python for coding problems. Data structures and methods just feel a little less daunting/abstract than in JS.

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Back from the brink ✨
Took a little time off to replenish, now on day 2 of trying to solve 3 coding problems daily

#JavaScript #coding

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Started this week with a big update to my portfolio - merged my development branch to master so now https://t.co/qcOALxVGua is fully responsive, functional and gorgeous 😍😍

Future updates i the works - take a look and tell me what you think!
#webdevelopment #JavaScript #coding

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Middle of the week and I hit a pretty major milestone! Got my latest portfolio build to a pretty decent place in terms of content - thinking I might merge it and have it up on my domain real soon 🥳

https://t.co/G4slHG99K0

#Coding #webdevelopment #javascript

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

This cloud engineering thing could actually be for me

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Forgot to post about my progress last week - too busy living life 😌

That aside, I actually managed to put in well over 12 hours of coding! Almost all of it spent customising my portfolio to be more representative of me

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Finally got my anchor links working‼‼

Check out the development branch while I work on polishing it up and taking out the placeholders - https://t.co/G4slHG99K0

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Finally getting around to setting up the AWS CLI on my Mac today 🧠

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

#NewProfilePic 😍

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

@aniediudo I’d love to hear more about this role! I’ll send my resume via dm - I’m a full-stack developer, so I’m equally curious about both the front and back end roles 😁

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

To sum up my progress today:
~ I tried to fix something that was broken
~ I broke something else
~ I fixed the thing I broke

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

Today was spent poring over documentation to fix an issue I’m having with hosting my new portfolio on AWS Amplify - while my current version (vanilla Javascript only) has anchor links which work, the new React version won’t render any other sections besides the landing 😅

[Matt A. @0lamatt]

A very interesting challenge, considering the site works perfectly on my local development build, but worth pushing through because I’ve had a lot of fun and am actually quite proud of how this project is growing.
#devlog #coding #programming #developer #React