The Economic Value of AI Is a Double-Edged Sword
AI really can replace some labor. But falling model costs, premium seats, metered agents, and uneven ROI mean the winners will be the firms obsessed with cost per useful outcome.
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Nollywood Is Starving the Nigerian Imagination
Too many Nollywood titles now feel like one more attempt to rearrange love, heart, wife, husband, or forever. An industry this large should not keep shrinking itself to cheating plots, marriage panic, and quick-cash emotional bait when it should be building worlds.
How To Find Your Minimum Viable Audience
AI has made building easier. It has not made resonance automatic. Your minimum viable audience is the smallest group of people who share your worldview, want the change you are offering, and would miss your work if you stopped showing up.
The Conspiracy of Single-Page Applications, Part 2: State Management Libraries
State libraries became popular because teams duplicated reality between client and server. The better fix is to learn the memory hierarchy of a web app: UI state, URL state, session state, cache, and durable database truth.
Sessions Still Work on Mobile. We Just Forgot.
JWT became the default answer for mobile auth, but mobile never invalidated session-based architecture. It just changed the transport and pushed too much responsibility into the client.
Applying Elon Musk's The Algorithm To Vibe Coding
The Algorithm is a useful discipline for builders with more leverage than ever: question the requirement, remove what is unnecessary, simplify what remains, shorten the loop, and automate last.
The Conspiracy of Single-Page Applications, Part 1: Auth-as-a-Service And JWT
Auth-as-a-service and JWT became defaults because SPA architecture made the browser client behave like a separate application. Most web apps do not need that theater.
The Conspiracy of Single-Page Applications
Single-page applications did not just change rendering. They made frontend/backend separation, token auth, duplicated state, and managed everything feel normal. This is the genesis essay for a three-part series on how that happened.
How To Roll Your Own Auth
Authentication gets treated as special-case engineering. For most full-stack apps, rolling your own auth means using proven primitives, secure cookies, server-side sessions, and skipping JWT overhead when a normal login form will do.
Happiness Is Overrated
The advice to do what makes you happy is decent for a Saturday, but flimsy for a life. Much of what gives a life meaning asks for effort, sacrifice, and the courage to choose depth over comfort.
Free Credits And Usage-Based Pricing Are The Softest Kind Of Lock-In
Free credits and usage-based pricing sell the feeling of affordability. What they often deliver is delayed pain, distorted validation, and the softest kind of lock-in.
Migration Files Are Useless
Migration files promised reproducible schema evolution. In practice they often create drift, replay headaches, and fake safety. I prefer Sails auto-migrations in development and Slipway schema diff in production.
Vibe Coding Is Not The Insult You Think It Is
Before AI gave it a name, serious software was already being born from playful obsession, curiosity, and personal itch. AI just widened the doorway.
Git Flow Worked For Me. Agents Need Something Faster.
Git Flow worked for me as a solo maintainer because develop stayed hot and main stayed stable. But in an agentic world, the branch tax is no longer worth it. Git Vibe keeps the safety and drops the ceremony.
Every Few Months The JavaScript Ecosystem Pretends It Just Invented Rails
A new full-stack launch appears, JS influencers rave that it is the Rails or Laravel for JavaScript, and the ecosystem forgets Sails and Adonis already exist.
Most Products Win By Entering An Ecosystem of Ease
The smartest products usually win by joining the channels, habits, and systems users already trust. Only a few are good enough to make people change behavior entirely.
You Want Originality Too Early
Most people try to be original too early. But mastery usually begins with imitation, apprenticeship, and the disciplined study of masters.
The PlanetScale CEO Said I Don't Value My Time. Here's My $22/Month Server Running 4 Apps.
The PlanetScale CEO says not using managed services means you don't value your time. Werner Vogels says cost is a non-functional requirement. Pieter Levels runs a $3M business on less than $200/month in infra. I know who I'm listening to.
I Tried to Build Africa's AI. The First Version Was Embarrassing.
Base models hallucinate Yoruba, invent fake Pidgin, and confidently teach wrong word meanings. Here's how I'm fixing it: one training pipeline, four cloud API providers running in parallel, and a lot of stubbornness.
The DID Problem: Three Things Killing African Startups Before They Start
Distribution. Infrastructure. Design. Every African startup I review has the same three problems. Here is how I fix them.
Dear African Builders, Subscriptions Might Kill Your SaaS
You copied the Silicon Valley pricing model but forgot to check if your customers spend money the same way Americans do. They don't.
Good Enough Is the Enemy of Great
Mediocrity is easy to spot and reject. But 'good enough' is the silent killer of greatness - it checks almost every box, and that's exactly what makes it dangerous.
No Smoke Without Fire: PayPal, Nigeria, and the Hypocrisy We Don't Want to Discuss
PayPal is finally returning to Nigeria with full receive access. The ecosystem is calling for a boycott. But before we play victim, let's have an honest conversation about why we were restricted in the first place.
Social Currency Is Still Currency
Stop downplaying people's success because they 'know people'. Knowing people is a skill. Networks are built, not given.
It's Easier To Be An Employee
Nobody tells you that being a founder means too many months at the end of the money. If you don't have faith in God, founding a company will teach you to find some.
Sales Is Not Marketing
Founders keep saying they need to do more marketing when what they actually need is to sell. Marketing builds awareness. Sales builds revenue.
The Hungry Founder Paradox
Poverty can light a fire under you or burn your startup to the ground. The difference? Whether you need the money or want the money.
Build Globally, Price Locally
I left money on the table for five years because I ignored one simple truth about pricing.
Agency Is What You Need Now
In a world where AI makes everything easier, the only unfair advantage left is your ability to act. Intelligence is commoditized. Execution isn't.
Shut Up and Act
You're killing your dreams by talking about them. Sharing your goals gives your brain a false sense of progress. Skip the announcements, focus on action and let your results speak.
New Year's Resolutions Don't Work
It's a few days until a new year (again). Stop making new year's resolutions that fail by February. Here's what actually works: seizing the day, every single day.
AI Will Take Your Job (And That's The Economic Reality)
AI-assisted coding, even in its crude form, is already more cost-effective than mediocre junior engineers. Here's the honest economic truth about AI replacing engineers in most tasks.
My Open Source Journey: Eight Years of Curiosity, Craft, and Community
From contributor to lead maintainer, my open source journey, the lessons that shaped it, and how anyone can start.
I have found MY perfect React dosage
Removing all the bells and whistles of “modern” web development complexities and pairing React with Inertia.js - the tiny routing library that makes The Boring Stack possible - truly makes React shine for me, and I love it.
Implementing Module Federation in The Boring JavaScript Stack
By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to transform your monolithic applications into flexible, distributed micro-frontends without sacrificing the simplicity and reliability of The Boring JavaScript Stack.
It's client-server not client/server
The web was designed in a client-server architecture. Being a Client-Server Pragmatist is not a new concept; it simply means you are mature enough to distribute work in alignment with the original architecture of the web.
Mentor not required
As a newbie to web development, you don't require a mentor.
How I started my professional web development career
For the next couple of months, I secretly doubted the decision I made to quit school. However, I decided to get some education while I wait for the job by taking a lot of tutorials
Build a polls API with Platformatic DB
Platformatic provides a set of open source tools to improve the DX of building backend applications. In this article I document how I built a polls API with one of the Platformatic tools - Platformatic DB
Testing NPM packages locally
Harminder Virk the creator of AdonisJS showed me this super easy way to test NPM packages locally.
How I became a JavaScript engineer and DevRel at Treblle
After 65 days of being unemployed as a DevRel, I’m pleased and excited to let you all know that I’m now a JavaScript engineer and DevRel at Treblle
Productivity tools I use and why
These tools make my life a little bit easier.
6 lessons on technical writing you can learn from J.K. Rowling
Whether you are a Harry Potter fan or not, we can all agree it is a masterpiece with over 500 million copies sold worldwide. Here are 6 lessons you can learn from the author about technical writing.
Understanding Astro components
Astro components improve the DX of writing MPAs as we have been so used to doing in SPA frameworks like Vue, React or Svelte.
What I learnt from rewriting my website with Astro
I'm not quick to try out a new technology but when my buddy James Q Quick mentioned he rewrote his website with Astro, I decided to try Astro for myself
Launching guppy: the needed Tinker tool for backend JavaScript
guppy allows you to run JavaScript code all within the context of a Sails application.
The purpose of osquery
In this article we zoom in at the problem osquery was created to solve and some of the use case osquery can be applied to.
A glossary of osquery related terms
Found these terms popping up more and more in my research into osquery. Thought it wise to document them.
How osquery works
osquery makes it simple to ask question about your machine using SQL, but how does osquery work?
Getting started with osquery
osquery is an interesting tool that allows you query your operating system as if it was a big relational database.
Finishing the first course of Sailscasts
Sailscasts.com finally have a completed course. Here are my learnings about the process.
2020: I still can't believe what's happening
2020 came in pack with a lot of giant steps, lessons learnt and overall massive decisions
Announcing The Sailscasts Company
Sailscasts is only the beginning
The magic of Future.wait() in Dart
Future.wait let me satisfy a fearture request in a Flutter codebase I was working on. I show how I used it.
On learning React
I have been looking at React these days and here is my thought.
Announcing the Sailscasts community
Join the Sailscasts community and let's collaborate on your journey with Sails.js and Server-side JavaScript
Launching Sailscasts in 6 months challenge
Launch Sailscasts on March 17th, 2021 with a recurring revenue of 5,000 USD/month
Introducing Sailscasts
The definitive source for Sails.js and modern backend JavaScript mastery.
14 Mistakes Beginning Software Developers Make
These mistakes could be keeping you from reaching the next level in your software development career
How I test Sails API applications
In this article, I show a realistic way of testing APIs built using the Node.js MVC framework Sails
Write The Code You Need Today
Postpone writing the code you don't need today.
Don't sacrifice expressiveness for ease
Use tech that doesn't need you to sacrifice expressiveness for ease
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