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chatinent:
Detailed will not be revealed for personal reasons.

But the output was perfect.

You dont need to tell us client details or other identifying data.

Did you build a website?
What did you build what you built with?
What tools were used?
What frameworks, if any?

For example: I built a static school website with 10 pages. I used only html and some vanilla JavaScript.

I submitted after 10 days and the client was ok.

Something in that line

chatinent:
I'm an optimistic person. I wanted to earn through programming but I had no knowledge. I mean, I could code nothing.

I was already into research writing, graphics editing, and virtual assistance..but I wanted to be a jack of all trade and master of all.

What I did? I created a profile on freelance sites that I was a programmer. Like I basically had specialised profiles for research writing, graphic editing, and virtual assistance.

Guess what? I got a gig of $400. Agreed, I knew HTML and a bit of CSS..but that's not programming.

What I did? From the $400 paid, I paid a tutor $100 to teach me and was using the client's job to test my skills. I am a very fast learner.

This is a risky thing to do and it's not totally advisable but if you are like me who MUST earn money legally, and a fast learner, it's worth the try.

So I finished the job. But I was only 90% sure I got it right. I sent it to my tutor to help me check “what I did myself and practised “ and he made few corrections, I incorporated, and I submitted.



In essence, my first programming job was my learning centre and I still gained $300.

Why don't you work smart nah? Please learn a digital skill today

http://www.chatinent.com/2023/01/my-funny-reality-how-i-became-programmer.html

What exactly did you build?

What tools did you use?

What was the client’s comment afterwards?

One other solution is to get an international account and get a card on it.

For example, It is easy to open an account in an ECOWAS country and you simply fund it via p2p with a trusted agent.

I wont be sharing explicit details here so the bandwagon does not crash it, as usual. Those who can read and understand would have gotten it.

QuoteJustOnce:
~48hrs is Weird, happens in less than 2mins each time I tried.
plus the USD card works anytime and everytime. it's even currently linked to my USA paypal account
smooth sailing.

USD card works flawlessly for older cards. I have someone who recently signed in and Google Domains bounced the card, and i have a couple of Google domains pulling payments from mine.

Naira Transfers to third parties is a hit or miss.

It would tell you the transaction is pending and would give a later date of up to 48 hours.

It is only transfers to your own bank account that happens in minutes.

tensazangetsu20:
Barter has stopped working. The service was cancelled indefinitely months back. If he wants to try chipper I won't advice him to load much money. Someone on Twitter was scammed of 200k on chipper and a lot of people have also complained of being scammed. Only put what you can afford to lose.

A lot of people have malicious apps running on their phones and would come online to claim they were scammed when shit hits the ceiling.

How did the scammer gain access to their accounts? Was it through Chipper Cash’s backend or from the user actually authorizing such transactions?

The only drawback i have with Chipper is that if you try to transfer Naira out of your account to another account, it might take more than 48 hours. The reason, i dont know.

Also, they laid off 12% of their staff in December and that is a bit worrying to me.

tensazangetsu20:
Virtual cards don't work on all services. They mostly work on the popular ones. No Nigerian virtual card works with Salesforce. Even when barter was still up It wasn't working. Thankfully you can learn with the development version but that's it.

Op find someone abroad you trust that can help you make payments.

That’s interesting to hear. I use my UAE cards for almost everything and my Chipper USD card in Nigeria works flawlessly.

He can try Chipper.

Barter seems to be buggy the last time i tried it.

I would not advise using another person’s card especially a card with an ability to overdraw.

You need a prepaid card or a card that declines when balance is 0 for such subscriptions.

It is better your service goes down than for you to incur a debt of 2,000 usd on another person’s card for a poorly configured service or an unexpected high draw rate.

lorenzobanks:
The central bank of Nigeria (CBN) policies especially on the foreign exchange market is killing the tech and startup communities in the country. I would use my case as an example.

I am a certified Salesforce administrator and have done several projects as voluntary or personal to boost my profile and résumé. One of my project I designed as an app using salesforce ecosystem that enabled small/ medium size companies to take daily audits of the sold goods and expensive activities and share the reports of the weekly audits via emails (automatically) to the managerial team. Showed it to a client to get a business deal.

The business owner was impressed with the design but, he's new to Salesforce and still need to understand how it work when fully deployed. So, he wanted me to give him a trial version which Salesforce provided but I melt a stumbling block when all cards to pay for the lowest subscription fee for the Salesforce got rejected. I tried for two weeks but could not subscribed. The man got tired and said next time and he's not ready to buy black market rate on a new services he will be paying for every months.

I believe, emefiele and Buhari have caused to so much pain to the tech space and startup communities. So, what do you think guys about the impact of the naira card international transaction restrictions on tech space in Nigeria?

You are a tech guy.

You don’t let stumbling blocks limit you.

Yes, Naira cards are no longer working but tech guys like you have solutions already for this mess. There are virtual dollar cards.

And when you say your client doesn’t want to buy at black market rate, pardon me but that is superfluous.

Were you quoting at 400 NGN to USD? Everyone pays at the black market rate. If he cannot buy at 740, tell him to pay you in USD or he is not ready to buy

For my Nigerian transactions, i charge in USD and collect via my USDT wallet or you transfer to my international account.

Your costs are in USD so why charge Naira?

I took some jobs when parallel was 525. It got to 900 before falling to present 740. How do you expect me to manage the monthly payments with such fluctuations?

No matter what the CBN does locally in Nigeria, you must find a way to survive because your target should be global.

airsaylongcome:
So Tech is a vast field covering not just Computing and IT but all science fields. Does innovation mean not having the barest minimum professional training. A lot of us are rushing to get into coding and dev. But are we also aware that it's actually a "factory job" and that the people that command the highest pay are those in leadership positions with degrees in Business Administration, Finance and the likes?

I'm not asking that everyone in tech must be a CS grad. Far from it. I'm saying, maybe like accounting, computing can develop a standard body of knowledge that practitioners must go through to practice the profession. Accounting is an all-comers profession. You don't even need a university degree to become accountant. But nowhere on earth can someone claim to be an account without passing their country's chartered account exam, whether that is ICAN in Nigeria, or ICAEW in England or CPA in the US. It's not gate keeping. It's having minimum standards

What you are proposing is a sort of knowledge toll-gate controlled by a few, just like the chartered bodies.

Have you seen what some CTOs in some organizations do? They were smart during their young days and junior days and developed some VB6 tools for the organization so they stayed behind while others migrated to other places.

Now its the 2020s and they are now CTO and they look at every young one with an air of suspicion. They have prevented the migration of the codebase to something more efficient and modern.

They give lists of all their own qualifications as entry level requirements for junior roles.

Now imagine an association of these old CTOs coming together to form a body. How do you think that body would be run?

Do you really think such a body would advance the tech world or restrict it?

Mention one of the real tech founders in the world who would approve of such an association because he passed through such?

Yes, every tom, dick and harry is calling himself a web programmer or a coder now and thats the beauty of it.

There are some basic requirements for any role and if you have a young person who can meet it, why gate keeping the person?

It is about learning a language and speaking in that language. With the language, you can create your your own lyrics as you see it.

I work with a team with offices in some couple GCC countries. It is a completely international team with a forward looking CTO. Only a couple of CS grads and they pull their weight in their contributions and not by their CS degrees.

airsaylongcome:
While a lot of people are talking down the OP, I think he is making some salient points. The need to standardize and professionalize the field. Back in the dark ages “surgeons” were roadside apprentices to other “surgeons” who had also learnt surgery “on the streets”. After plenty failed “butchering”, surgery had to be professionalized.

Think about it, would you have a self-trained doc diagnose and treat you? Would you allow a self-trained engineer build your house?

Edit:
On the flip side though, some of the greatest frauds have been performed by the best trained professionals. Enron quickly comes to mind

Tech is about innovation.

Innovation knows no school walls or regimental schedules.

The best innovators are actually people who question the existing system and bypass all standard procedures just to get to the solutions faster and more efficiently.

Computer Science as an academic discipline is great and we would continue to need its advancements. However, there must be the space for the rustic goal getter who doesn’t have a PhD but has a unique set of skills for clobbering up the next big thing.

Omoedeki:
Only one camera is working in the 11 pro max and 12 pro max. This I know because I have handed them personally

Clap for yourself.

You covered one camera lens and discovered that only one affected the view so you concluded that it was only one camera that worked.

We should all thank you for this wonderful discovery. Imagine all the people in the world who have been scammed into buying phones with multiple lenses. If not for you and your genius discovery, how would we have known?

Thank you so much.

But before i go, did you try changing the zoom level during your scientific experiment?

qtguru:
I've never seen such in all my life. I think he seeks joy in people failing.

Its his only way to vent.

In real life, he would be one runt that possibly shares everything except toothbrush.

He is also in his growing years, not necessarily in age but in exposure.

He got his first laptop ever just last year and had to do a lot of menial jobs for it. He first came to NL using other monikers to beg for one but was not fortunate which is possibly why he hates the older developers.

He has an elder brother too. The one whose web-phallus cannot deflower an ant yet calls himself great.

Both of them have around 10 monikers combined in a bid to act different but their similar gibberish gives them away.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Using ChatGpt is just annoying.
You can use it to get insights or how to solve the problem perhaps... But not to solve the entire thing for you and you just copy and paste it.

What did you learn now?

Using chatGPT assists in learning. Don’t fight existing realities.

Not everyone has the luxury of time to learn every bit of a process.

At least, the person was forthright and declared where the solution came from.

If you are not comfortable with his option, then you present yours or move on to other things.

You sound like someone from the 80s saying ‘dont use a calculator’

GREATIGBOMAN:
Take your own advice.

No one is bigger than a rejection in any Job application.

When you're done you can go back to stalking my portfolio website.... We know things are hard these days and Jobs are hard to come by.

With enough pleading I may remove the redirect so you can masturbate on the website once again.

You had a rethink overnight and edited this post abi?

Christmas is over.

I am back to normal grind. I wont mind using you to relax once in a while. ..you know, the occasional shafting.

You can put your website back. Dont be afraid, i dont bite deep.

You should be proud, i am your one and only traffic.

Jokes aside, dont take down your site because you were washed with bleach. There were learning points and it should have made you a better programmer.

Put it up and I would let you know privately (through one of your numerous emails that i now have) any issue i notice.

Cheers sleekcode greatigboman and the two other monikers you have used in contacting me.

mayemaye:
Sir just a quick one with your experience in Nigeria were most of the apps built using native or cross platform

Thanks for your feedback

Small companies- Cross
Big companies - Native.

For 2023, with the massive layoffs everywhere, I expect tech teams to become leaner so more companies would adopt cross platforms more.

paradigmshift:
USA na hypocrite.. they fought Huawei because Huawei was the top brand in phones in the US. They are fighting TikTok because it's the number 1 app even in the US. I just Google Xiaomi backdoor and nothing happened. Hauwei, vivo, and others are making great products. Even the so called iphone are assembled in china, they semi Chinese branded if you reason that way. All the iphone or apple products chipset are manafuctrd by TSMC, a company in Taiwan lol . Baba abeg rest e

Fact check. Huawei has never been the top brand in the US. It was a top brand in china.

US blacklisted Huawei for security concerns.

You obviously dont know what a backdoor is or how to look for one.

TikTok investigations have revealed that the company actually spies on users. This is as new as a few weeks ago.

Chips are manufactured from blueprints. Apple supplies its own blueprints. You cannot add any extra post-blueprint.

Taiwan is different from China but you also might not know this.

I have not forced you to stop using your Xiaomi. However, your claim that Xiaomi is secure (in the same breath as an iPhone) is completely false.

Cheers

HOKIM:
Sir, I have an app on my phone that keeps notifying me that I should un-install it cos it's trying to gain access to my informations... I still no hear, is it possible that they have now hacked into my phone as I use a Samsung?? I have alot of info on my phone ooo..abeg ooo

Name of app : Rapid Streamz
Pls can you help me check the app out...

Your options bro.

Did you download via an official app store like playstore or you went looking for some apks from one random place?

There is no free lunch in the app world. You are either paying or you are the menu

Silentgroper:
I use a nokia android... Is it safe.




It's high time dz bloody brand makes me their brand ambassador.. How do i keep using d same brand since i was a kid...

It is possible Nokia is ‘better’. I am not sure because i have not used one in a long while.

However, I know for a fact that iPhones especially the ones on ios 16 have privacy at their core. Even Facebook and Google got angry.

babaolofin:
I use Samsung Galaxy. My accounts were hacked. They know I am aware, they keep using different method. When I stopped using phone for political matters but only laptop, I experience the same thing after some times.

Change your passwords on all your social media accounts.

There are options on every social network to log out of all existing log ins. Use that.

It is not your phone that is the problem. It is your socials and footprints plus possibly someone close to you.

mayemaye:
Hello boss Good evening

I'm new to android dev, I write with Kotlin for now I have been able to develop minor apps like calculator, gallery, music player and others

Sir please do you advised I quickly switch to cross platform or stay native for now

There are some clients that still prefer native development.

I also know a little bit of Swift UI and can find my way around the codes. However, except i am working in a big team where there are different devs for different platforms, i would prefer to logically use a cross platform for those small projects.

Get your full hang of Kotlin. Become a pro at it, then explore some Flutter.

batistutajulio:
Good day and Happy new Year.

I have an idea for creating a dating web app for singles. I like to hear from those who have had such ideas before, their experiences and challenges and why they quit building such an idea. Other general opinions are welcomed.

Thank you.

What is your earnings model? How do you intend to make money from the idea?

How do you intend to market the app?

How do you intend to get an appreciable hourly active user base?

UI/UX

Privacy

This is batch 1 of your problems. Solve this and you can move to batch 2

Hassanmaye:
If I'm using iPhone for Whatsapp can they hack my WhatsApp sir?

Which one is “iphone for WhatsApp “?

Download only WhatsApp or Business WhatsApp and only from the official playstore.

Any other WhatsApp wannabe app is opening the door for unauthorized access

Praxis758:
That means their contents are baits to devour those patronizing them

Gbam.

paradigmshift:
I use Xiaomi, it's the best.. security update always... Android any day for me

Google “Xiaomi Backdoor” and make your opinions afterwards.

Xiaomi is a chinese brand.

There are certain requirements by the Chinese government which they must adhere too.

Why do you think USA fought Huawei and is currently fighting TikTok?

Praxis758:
Are you saying porn sites are culpable?

Very.

Those javascript codes running at the background snooping through your secure storage and stored jwts.

Why would i serve you free content if you are not the meal?

GREATIGBOMAN:
You have been heard.

Shift...

Redacted

GREATIGBOMAN:
Na me get website.

Na me use my hand redirect my website to my LinkedIn profile.

Yet you're wailing up and down

You that have a functioning portfolio site can we see it?

LOL.

I have a functional portfolio.

You have tried all the skills in your skull to get an access but nah. Not for you. You even used your little yahoo yahoo email scripts on my disposable emails but nah. You are too micro.

I know one of these days, i will have you at the other side of the table where you would be explaining how good you are with react. LOL

As I always tell you, dont rush.

QuoteJustOnce:
After spending close to 2yrs w/ Svelte, i still hate it.

Come to the church of sveltekit.

Our approach to the gospel is a bit different.

Looking forward to seeing you on our evangelism team very soon

histechs:
Thanks
is there any software to do it because am not a programmer

This is a custom SaaS.

On what platform do you intend to sell your software?

More details can help

GREATIGBOMAN:
The thing really pain you.
Little by little you'll be able to solve basic Algorithms without ChatGPT.


301 redirect is now rocket science to you.

Your complete website has now turned to a honeypot to harvest LinkedIn profiles and you call yourself a developer?

I didn’t need chatGPT to bring down your website with effects up till today.

Now you dont have a functioning website.

Oga programmer whose website has been down since Christmas.

You are so engulfed with hate that you turned your whole website into a redirect to your LinkedIn profile.

You are also so incompetent that you could not fix your vulnerabilities in over 2 weeks.

Yet you are as opinionated as a perfumed donkey.

histechs:
Good day house,
How do I activate my app with code for subscription on desktop or pc.
What am trying to say is that I want to sell a software/app but I want it to open for only those that pay for it.
How can I go about it?
Thanks for your responses

Put resource behind a protected route.

Let each user have an account that allows log in.

Allow only one log in per account. An extra log in on another device logs out the initial one.

For the customers that have paid, issue a time based token that is valid only for the period that they paid for. For those who have not paid, issue a generic token.

All interactions must use the tokens. Expired premium tokens default automatically to generic tokens and when a client pays, he is automatically issued a new premium token.

When they log in, check their tokens. If generic or null, bounce them to general page. If premium, check for validity. If valid, allow if expired, default to generic

Daz All

Buy a real phone.

If it is the cheapest iPhone, get it. Let me say this again. Buy an iPhone. If you must use an android, get a Samsung or any other major brand. Do not buy Tecno, Infinix, Itel or any other android that ships with factory spyware.

Any phone manufacturer that doesn’t take privacy seriously is just a brick manufacturer.

The volume of malware on phones in Nigeria is alarming.

The main culprits are Tecnos and Infinix. They come with malwares right out of the box and there is little you can do about it.

Dont use easybuy.

Don’t download loan apps.

Don’t use the same browser that you use for everything for porn or other illicit sites.

Dont click on funny links.

Dont use tiktok.

GREATIGBOMAN:
wrong as usual.
Your Gf ChatGpt have failed u once again

Very dumb of you to say my response was wrong.

The only omission i made was not formatting the string to repeat if start === end.

You still dey get mouth in this arena?

You should be thanking your stars that the mods saved your tiny html ass.

LOL.