Shomek:
How old are you when you start coding ?

I think i was 15 when i wrote my first hello world on html (that was like 1998). i was intrigued that i could actually create something on a pc rather than just using a pc.

Its been over 25 year, now at 40, i have decided to really learn coding by challenging myself with projects and things i want to be build for myself and for the office i work for, weird i know, but for me it seems i have been running away from this and it finally hit me to just freaking do it already and not avoid it anymore.

downbad:
Hey guys, I created and deployed my very first web application built with Django.

the website is live at https://chistev.pythonanywhere.com/

Still lots of room for improvement, I know, and I'm excited about that.

If you are interested in improving the site in whatever way you can, I'll send you the link to the Github repo.

I'm planning on building a simple Ecommerce website next. It would be more complex than this blog I built, as I attempt to push my skills further.

Wow, you guys take it to another level.

My brother you tried, for your first Django site, guessing you are more of backend person rather than frontend, thus why the design leaves more to be done.

But from what i see, the site doesn't seem to have any logic to aside from a login for users to access the content.

So my comments.

Yes the design leave more to be done, but you are on a track.

Keep at what what you want to achieve, keep fine tuning and adding features.
Once you are done, then you can go back a plug in css design features ( but make sure you id, class and name you html tags for those,).

keep up the good work dear and don't let the comments make you feel bad, just see them as a challenge to do better.

If you are open to bounce ideas on css and javascript to add to this, i am open to assist

guysbewise:


SCAM alert any group that ask you for money to get a any job is a SCAM!

Ok so sorry for the delay guys

So the group confirms true.

I was allowed on a zoom call with members of the group on friday and also on 2 members interviews for a Senior Devops position and a cyber security position both in The US.

So far what I saw was quite impressive and not a scam.

Let me put it this way, these guys are advanced.

And I have decide to find means to join the group later.

Why later.

Most people on this group are in the states or Canada.

The ones getting the jobs on the group are those in the states or Canada.

My conclusion, it seems massive experience in an area in tech was not required to get a job with the help of the group. also just living in the Us or canada seriously enhances your chances of getting a job.

This is why I said Later, also the total monetary package involve, is well beyond my Nigerian pay grade.

Whatsapp has added a new AI feature to the platform

It allows users to talk to the new Meta AI and get responses for anything

It's like your own Google search on Whatsapp.

Or like Chatgpt but on Whatsapp.

See the images below for how it works.

Sadly, this feature is currently only available to Tier 1 countries, with expected realise to other coming in June

Lontorlooka:
VanHack does that . I once paid $250 for two months premium membership. Got no single interview from them though .

My friend introduced me to the group head, i was invited to see one of the group memebers interview.

I will let you know how it goes once i am done.

edicied:
It's everywhere o, Go Linkend make you go see things, especially all this big tech company in Nigeria.

It wasn't just linkedin that keyed me in, it was Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/172y6v4/i_entered_the_it_field_unemployed_and_with_no/

Still, i got a previous of the group and an invite to attend one of their interviews.

Will try to update once done.

Suicideboy:


First you're forking confused hoping from one stack to another



DevOps is not entry level

I had this mindset before, and i would have answered you with that annoying mindset.

But lad, i won't.

You know why.

Maybe you are comfortable where you are

Maybe you work with the principle that what you know can get get you what you want

Or may be you feel what i am doing is not the right way according to you standards.

But if you have been where i have been and seen what people are doing to succeed.

You will quickly learn that in life, there are no straight parts to success, any skill that will help you get ahead, you learn it and try.

So i'm not sorry if my sense of direction offends you, if i choose to jump from Devops to Node, python and any other language i like, is souly up to me.

If any of them land me an in in a tech firm, then hooray, as i know if i doesn t and i come here and mention that it does. likely you will be one of the first to ask me how i did it Lady.

We all have faced challenges at work.

A task given, and a 24-48 hour dead line, yet you do not even know how to begin with the task.

A Challenge to solve and your job or position is on the line, if you do not solve it

Things like the above.

As we all know, sometimes, you might have mentors at your workspace you can reach out for guidance.

Most dont have anyone, only those seeking to step in when they fail or those who will thwart their efforts.

This, try to help when you can

I believe it's time we have a community of like minds , who can give advise, direction on how to proceed.

As almost most tasks or challenges in our work space, have been faced by someone at sometimes before in another workspace or position.

So here are the rules

Leave your office name our of the task or challenge you want to share

Be cordial with anyone attempting to help you

Give respect to all who answers your task or challenge.

And no bad mouthing others.

guysbewise:
Programming jobs are always waiting for them even though they are mediocres.

So true bro.

But when these guys are talking about jobs where their annual pay is $90,000 - $120,000,

One can not help to be curious about how they are doing it.

I am seriously contemplating on joining my friends group, but the money ain't cheap at all.

It just boggles me that even white guys are willing to cheat to change careers for something better

airsaylongcome:


About the bolded, trust me you can make out that time. Assuming you work an 8-5, you can maximize your after-work hours to make up those two weeks (I’m approximating 2 weeks to be 5 days of 8 hours each day). Set aside at least 2 hours everyday for study/hands-on. Take weekends and maximize your Saturdays to review all you studied during the week. Have a dedicated note book with a clearly written study plan. I’m talking writing out what you want to study daily. While studying, take notes that you review on the weekend. Study study study. Trust me e go pay. Without doubt. As an older “student”, me I know it is harder studying now than 20 years ago when the brain was younger and no “adult problems” (rent, NEPA bill, family wahala). Use study aids. I have post-it notes all over my wall at home. Different coloured ones for different topics. Gum them everywhere and have a look at them regularly. The “thing” go enter by force. Watch YouTube channels that talk about devops, go on Reddit and follow devops subreddits. Surround yourself with the material everywhere until e enter. When the results start to dey come na you go dey run. I wish you all the best

Thanks so much for the update , I am actually doing a bit of this, as after most work days between 11pm and 12:30pm, i spend time learning and taking notes.

I actually take a lot of notes, this has been really helpful for me. as i can easily fall back to the notes when i am not directly infront of the system.

I use Keep to write and store my so i can access them on the go.

I still havent developed a study plan for my learning yet, but i kind of look at my learning as "learning to solve a problem". Thus, currently my reason to learn is to develop web apps using html css, javascript and node.(example apps are an inventory management system or an erp system for my office.

Then use Devop to automate and streamline the process and keeping and managing the apps in the cloud.

This has been my drive since, so i believe i will have to develop a study plan around this.

I have been learning Devops since early 2023, and just started frontend and a bit of backend this year.

Recently i got talking to a fellow Devops trainee, (some context we both started the training together last year, he is in Canada).
He told me he had gotten a job in December last year, working hybrid for a firm in Canada (Vancouver)-(Devops Engineer - 100k annual with benefits), I was happy for him.

Then he explained he just got a second job working remote in the Us (Atlanta to be precise)-(backend developer. 75k annual with benefits)

The shocking part is he is planning on doing the two jobs together, and get this, i know he his coverage on devops is at entry level, and his programming skills are literally html, css and javascript (basic level)

I had to ask how he did it.

He explained that he paid to joint a couple of whatsapp and telegram groups that in his words "guide" people on how to get tech jobs.

He showed me one of the whatsapp group and their process of "guiding", for me this was really shocking.

My takeaway i got from what he showed.

A. Being in the US/Canada is a big plus (particularly for interviews)
B. Having indept background in tech is not a must (Its a plus though) as candidates were literally "guided" through.

This has increase my drive to grow my knowledge, as there are people on these i saw that i know that even at my level i know 2X better than they.

Still, i have to ask, do any of you know of any groups like these that currently operational in Nigeria or other places?

Hi there

Just to understand you

Are you talking about those working in tech and making over 600k a month, or those outside of tech.

halmat:
Resilience is all there is to this tech thing.

I really enjoy reading things like this, pushing forward in the face of adversities.

I started similar journey last year Sept.

I use kodekloud in my case

I would continue to use them till next year when I plan to migrate to ACloudGuru.

I’m a software engineer by the day, so it’s more or less trying to add another medal to my shoulder.

Well done chief!

I love hearing this.

Acloudguru was almost my first choice, till I went with Landmark tech

Still learning.

Currently adding some side languages to what to my devops course, as I noticed that a lot of devops has to do with the backend and for me I feel understanding some of the languages that one would be using the devops process with would also be helpful.

So I used the Christmas and few hours over the weekend of January to try to understand bits of html, Css, javascript.

Currently dabbling into Nodejs now for backend,(Omo node hard oh).

Men, it's been hard finding time to do all this, with work and family time.

Sometimes I wish I had 2 weeks straight of free time, so I could just go though all i need todo. But that won't happen anytime soon. So for now it's bit by bit.

But l, still @halmat, keep up the good work and journey hard to your dreams

olumzzz:
Let's start with the AC compressor.
Is it OEM or has been changed?

I am not sure if it's an OEM.

But I remember I had it changed sometime in December last year.

Reason (the same vibration thingy).

My mechanic then, thought it might help to get a low powered compressor, so I had it changed

sochijioke:

Check her engine valve setting.

Checked, sometime earlier this year.

Still kept vibrating

I also had about 3 coils changed, just to check if that was the problem as two of them got bad during and incident on airport road from Ikeja

My fans suddenly stopped work and the engine started over heating. Fortunately it was raining heavily that morning so I gunnned it from mm1 passed mm2.heading to Ajao estate.

It seems a towing van noticed what was wrong, as he literally following me all the way to my office hoping that I would just breakdown there, but God pass am, as I got to the office safe.

Still I ended up burning two coils and some other stuff that cost me an arm and leg to fix and change.

Even after all that the vibrations still remained

Ok so after about 3 mechanic

I finally found one that seems to know what he is doing

He asked me if I have ever worked on the injector or the airflow meter, of which I said no.

He said let him try something. That we will check for a while to see what happens.

First he increased the rpm(literally didn't know that it could be done).

The car ran smoothly for about two days even with the ac.

Then it went back to vibrating as the rpm dropped again.

Told the mechanic, and he said he will check the injector and the airflow meter.

He first checked and cleaned the airflow meter.

Things worked

Vibration stopped

For about two weeks, then it went back to vibrating.

Next, he decide to look at the injector,
he cleaned out the injector and took it apart.

Finally reassembled it and

So far the vibration have reduced again.

So I am on watch mode for now to see how it goes.

I will update next week

For for the first step to getting the emails you see on the page when you enter the above search query on Google.

Note you need a PC to do this

If you are using chrome, install email hunter extension or any email on page extractor.

Now respect your search and you will notice the emails appear on each result google offers for the below.

site:linkedin.com "Lagos" AND "CEO" AND "@gmail.com"

Now click on your email hunter extension and notice every email on the page has been extracted.

Now let go one more step ahead.

You will notice google only give you 10 results per search

You need to increase that number to 100.

Click on search options on your google page and increase it from 10-100.

Now email hunter will extract 100 emails as against 10.

All you need to do at this point is go to the next page on your google search, wait 2 seconds for email hunter to extract the emails there and go to the next page

Rinse and repeat

PedoBear:




Help desk

I followed this roadmap initially before I started my class and learnt that you can pick where to start and grow from there

https://roadmap.sh/devops

tosinhtml:
Nice one chief, keep going & i hope you make it through.

I paid for Devops course one time but too tired from work to even continue, kind of regret it but will still go back in the future. As one grows older, paying for courses or resources will be easy but finding time is extremely hard. Paid for so many courses on Udemy that I left hanging.

Bruv

Totally get this

Omo I had to really task myself to find time to practice what I was thought in class.

It was never easy finding that time, particularly at work, even at home, I still come back from work and handle responsibility with my wife and fam then from eleven till 1am I fight sleep and keep practicing.

But truly, I am able to it because I actually like it.

You got to find the time dear, even if it's to start and do 10mins, and stop for the day.

I found each time I push my self to start and only do 10-15mins of training a day.

I end up doing way more.

Just give it a try

So mmm

I learnt this a while back and have been using it for email marketing for bit.

I remember the good old days when i use to see email extractors and different softwares that extracted data from google.
I had the opportunity to use quite a couple of them from Email extractor to some over 900 tools i found using google blackhatforum to locate.

Then most of those cracked softwares became hard to find or even pay for. which lead me to look for alternatives means. Lo, i stumbled upon google dorks.

What is google dorks, its a set of search parameters that help you locate stuff on google quicker and better.

So how do you use google dorks to find emails.

See my process below

Say i am looking for a list of Nigerian CEO email addresses on linkedin, what do i type in google

Some of you would enter just that "Nigerian CEO email addresses"

For me it would be

site:linkedin.com "Lagos" AND "CEO" AND "@gmail.com"

Enter the above into google and let me know what you see. (if you get a google needs to autheticate who you are, just go through the process and it will show the results)

Your results should show you email address in each entry.

Note: you should be presented with a few challenges by the time you scroll down

A. How do i extract the emails without typing it or copy pasting each one
B. How do i get more entries on the page
C. How do i get more email address other than @gmail.com
D. How do i get the names of the email users
And so on and so on.

I will answer A-C in my next post.

I will also try to so=how you how you can niche down to get the emails for people of a particular niche.

Does this work for phone numbers, technically yes.

More in the next post

yinkeys:

That language frightens me
Python & machine learning intermediate level user here

My brother, at this age i have a lesson i have leanrt that i can impact to you.

If you regularly keep at something, you will get throuh it
Like a stream running through a mountain
The stream kept testing and test till one day it got through an created a part
You are human, it is normal for us to avoid looking back
We are not good at look behind us or checking our past.
But if you can develop the habit to go back and try and try and try again
Success awaits beyond the dawn

Codevalley:
Many will be motivated by story.Dont give up on your dream ,keep the candle burnings!

Big thanks, much appreciated

silento:
Age is just a number unless it is JavaScript

Omo, i laugh in madarin, chai X5

airsaylongcome:
Good to read your story. And I hope more 40+ folks get motivated to start of a career in Tech. Loads of space in the industry to cater for mature entrants. And I'm glad to read you talk about stuff other than SWE. Loads of play room in stuff outside SWE. Customer/Technical support is a low resistance route for those looking to get started. Can always pivot from Helpdesk to many other roles.


1am to 4am can be brutal, especially if you have an 8-5 day job.

One thing with US remote is that it fxcks up your circadian rhythm. Big time. Worse when they shift the clocks 1 hr back in winter.

I de tell you men, the time frame really messes with me.

I am still looking at SWE (software engineering as well, but not for now. Make i finish one before i enter another one first.

Really appreciate the feedback

Hmmm

So i am known as what some people would say a jack of all trades in tech, but i have no tech certification.

I am that guy that when something is wrong on you pc or phone, you reach out to and i tell you how to solve it (most times leaving you wondering -"why didn't i think of that")

From a very young age, i have always wanted to get into tech, but new had the opportunity or time to learn.

Fast forward to December 2022, and i finally taken the decision that i would learnt something in tech this year no matter what.

So i got started in Dev ops.

Well what a journey i undertook.

I started my training with a school called My Landmark Tech.

From the onset, let just say i chewed more than i bargained for, but being a Nigerian meant, they is no way my money is going to waste at all.
So i kept at.

From learning about linux for the first time and for some reason hating it initially then loving it gradually. Before being hit with Bash shell scripting. "Omo i hear am for this one". but after a while i started writing some basic scripts and was like "na me be this".

While i was basking in my shine, the come nack me with the not so wonderful world of Git, i was initally sceptical as it was another thing way i no sabi, But God de, as i gradually began to find out that that the internet is your friend and stack overflow was there to help (sometimes).

I did the whole Git hustle for a bit, then they announced during the class, that they were heavy on java and to prepare for Maven.
At this point i was asking myself, what is the essense of all this so far, but one mind said carry on.

So for us to get into Maven, they first had to to teach us about aws and how to setup an ec2 instance and how to login or ssh into your instance. They also had to teach us about security groups and creating your pem keys.

Then they taught us how to setup maven on an ec2 instance, it was then i began to understand why i needed to learn linux and bash shell scripting.

And then things began to pickup big time, from Maven, we hit sonarqube, from sonarqube we hit nexus, from nexus we hit jenkins.
With jenkins we ran throught connecting all the previous things.

Bash scripting to git, to jenkins, jenkins running ci/cd through maven, sonarqube and nexus. (ensuring all this worked during a pipeline build was hell- a lot of late nights and free time in the office, a lot of aws ec2 instances and a lot of burnt aws accounts as ran down free tier after free tier). It took me three weeks to understand the pom.xml setup for maven and another 1month to get my ci/cd pipeline to work.

When i finally got things to work, and was celebrating my success. I was hit with terraform and docker.

It took me another month to learn terraform, and another two months to get from docker to docker file to docker compose and docker swarm.

I still have Kubernetes, Ansible, Grafana, Helm and Promethus to learn, chai.

Then i still have to learn on my own, other different Devops related softwares, platforms, cloud platforms etc. (Chai X2), all of it required before i can even begin to compete with other advance or intermediate devop engineers out these.

Am i enjoying this

Truly

Yes

I have learnt a lot i didn't know about before, i have even picked up on python and kotlin on the side, and i am enjoying each challenge all of this brings. The fun of sending time to solve a problem, hitting a brick wall and going back to the drawing board and coming back strong.

It hasn't been easy though, as my classes are between 1am and 4am twice a week and on Saturdays and to revise from each lesson i usually spend 5-6 hours.

But, i love every minute of it.

So to anyone looking to get into Devops, know it is not a rush job, take your time to learn and understand what you are doing.

Also i am open to help with pointers and directions to anyone who needs it.

I will update from time to time once i am done with my training.

Chai X 4

Thefarmer3:
Check the rpm at idle. It may be too low

Hmm

Running to the car right now

Geoabeeys:
I am also looking for solution to this. If you put it in neutral, vibration will stop.

Ah a fellow vibrating corrolla owner, welcome oh.

We are in this together

Hopefully our oga's can give us some feedback

So i drive the below little bad girl

And it gets me from A-z so far

I got her early 2021 and had to ring her cause she smoked a lot.

Picture this

Your speeding down Ikorodu road from Maryland to Fadeyi, no one is in front of you
Your feeling like a bad boy, with your specs on and one hand on the steering, blasting dmx,while everyone behind you chokes on your fumes

Like seriously chokes on your fumes

P.s if you are one of the people i coked back then, my apologies, as i have solved that problem(ringsand pistons).

So less i digress

Before i got her a new set of rings, i notice she would run like a dream but when i hit traffic and start with the break down and brak up routine

She would start vibrating, it gets worst when the ac is on.

So te, i hadto abandon the ac til i got her ringed.

After ringing (december last year) still noticed the vibration, but this time only while i use the ac.

Key scene 2

I tell my mechanic and he says to bring it down for some tlc(expensive TLC-chai)

Between January and Now, i have sacrified the folowing to her.

My Mechanic's voice

Mechanic: Oga nah engine mount
Me: Oya change them"
My Car: I am still vibrating when ac is on during traffic
My car: Partially when breaks are applied
Mechanic: Hmm, e be like say we go buy net for the engine
Me: Net what does that do.
Mechanic: it will help to......(can't explain well)
Me: Nope


2 months later...

Mechanic: Change coils
Me: I disagreed,
My Car: I turned off my fans and decided to over heat one fine rainy day in May and he still drove me almost to the ground and damage 3 coils
Me: ok lets change coils
Car: Still vibrating when ac is on and we are in traffic

At this point i got tired of using the ac till about 3 weeks ago

I notice that when the vibrating starts in traffic, if i put the car on park it comes down a bit, but once i return to drive it back with a vengance.

But for some reason, when i move it from drive to neutral, the vibrations stop. plus once it goes back to drive, its not as worst as when i do drive to park and back to drive.

Please has any body noticed this with theirs?

If you have experience this vibrations before, what did you do to stop it finally?