What's happening Devs? Abeg App, #EndSars, and other interesting things you should know

Major happenings around tech, framework, and #EndSARS protests

Oct 10, 2020

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What’s hot

#EndSARS protest, as techies take the fight to the government. The sad stories are getting too many, when laptops, iPhone, and dread are seen as a crime by police SARS unit, making techies become too afraid to move around.
Designers unite with creatives to help the campaign, if you have a design that you think will help get out the word, share here. You will also find creative designs by other designers in the ecosystem.
Tech startups donating funds to push the message forward, earlier on Friday as the protest started across the country, Flutterwave CEO, Gbenga shared a tweet about how much the staff has contributed to help those protesting, it’s a whopping N2million and opened up an opportunity for others to contribute. Buycoins, Busha, and others have also contributed. Is this the start of a movement?
Top global programming influencers lend their voices; @Telmo, Catalin Pit
APIs to contact all politicians; You can get 40-50k for this..lol.
@KadetXx and other devs built this app that allows you to tweet or send a message to any politician. Check it out here and spread the word.
Not News but a breaking[no, landslide!] one when a techie breaks the internet, you need to give it to her. Didicode’s birthday was this week and she indeed broke the internet. Other October-born devs have decided to move their birthdays till next, because… she has celebrated it on their behaves! You should check out her birthday presents here.

New Tech Startups

These are developer lead startups that we find interesting.

Mono; Get all your bank statements in one app. They also raised $500k in seed money.
Brass; Open a bank account for your Business ASAP. We find the UX for this product so sleek. Designed by Tolu Saba, a top guy.
Abeg App; Dash people money, raise money for a cause, etc. This is so interesting
Lemonade App: Helping people send money to Nigeria ASAP for free.

Framework Updates

Bootstrap 5 Alpha 2 is here, If you are a frontend dev and you don’t know Bootstrap, ok…press a reset your tool is not complete yet. In what looks like it’s taking Eternity to update, this coming version seems to be built for the future.

TailwindCSS Launched a playground; Tailwind is an unopinionated, utility-first CSS framework. Check out the playground here.

Laravel 8 launched with radical changes; Laravel, the popular PHP framework version 8 was released last month to fanfare, and in a month additional patches have been release; now 8.7. I recently updated a couple

Tech Career

So, when will I know that I am no more a junior dev? First, you need to answer the question of how many failed projects have you had? Not many? Sorry, your road is still a long one. Part 1, 2, and 3.
ProductDive held a webinar this week, you can join in for future updates, if you are looking to convert to a product manager from being a dev, you will find amazing people who have made the transition as well.
Getting the best out of remote work; here are steps you should practice.

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Developer Jobs

Remote Senior Flutter Developer, 350k - 700k

Remote Senior PHP/Laravel Developer 350k - 700k

Intermediate DevOps Engineer 350k

Intermediate Python Developer 300k

Intermediate Fullstack Developer [MERN], 350k

As a dev, one of the things you should do is to write more; first, it helps you do a mental review of how you solve a problem, and also create a personalized repository of how you get basic things done. I recently tried Hashnode, it was quite nice. You should set up an account there for your blog.

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