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Brain Dump #3: Is SaaS Becoming Irrelevant?

Note: Brain Dumps aren’t articles—they’re just thoughts I find worth sharing. Some will be short, others long or convoluted. Take what resonates. I was browsing the list of one-click install services on Coolify (a self-hosted PaaS) and couldn’t help but notice how many high-quality open-source tools

Brain Dump #2: The Cost of Avoiding Hard Conversations

Note: Brain Dumps aren’t articles—they’re just thoughts I find worth sharing. Some will be short, others long or convoluted. Take what resonates. It’s always sad to see relationships—whether professional or personal—fall apart simply because people failed to address challenges, differences, and expectations early. Often,

Brain Dump #1: Using AI to think

Note: Brain dumps are not articles, they are just thought that I find worthy of sharing. Some will be short like this one, others will be long and convoluted. Bear with me 🙂. Over the past few months, I’ve really enjoyed using ChatGPT as a sparring partner for ideation sessions—

Deep Dive into My Home Lab

How I started my home lab, what kind of equipment I bought, at what price. We will also look at my network topology and the service I run on the dug

Loggerhead: Because Reinventing The Wheel Is Fun

Loggerhead is a simple database that allows you to Ingest many geolocation updates quickly and Query locations over a large area, like all of Africa, in 30 microseconds.

Tech Leadership At A Startup: Introduction To Hiring Good Software Engineers

Why are you hiring? Every additional employee we hire in the organization should be a conscious decision rationalized by a clear present need or a real future need. That's why it is essential to analyze your current organization to find opportunities and risks. Some of the risks/opportunities

Mastering the Art of Time Management: How a Director of Engineering Tames a Hectic Schedule with Powerful Tools and Discipline

Discover time management strategies for engineering leaders as we explore the journey of a Director of Engineering. Learn how tools like Google Calendar, Google Tasks, and Reclaim.ai help streamline schedules, optimize meetings, and maintain focus in a fast-paced, high-stakes work environment.

Democratizing Payment: Boosting Innovation for Indie Hackers in the DRC

Fabrice Kabongo and the Congo Developer Club aim to democratize payment for indie hackers in the DRC by building a decentralized payment processing system using Mobile Money.

[off-series] The Rise of Chat GPT: How Automation is Revolutionizing Content Writing

As an aspiring writer, the rise of Chat GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) technology has left me wondering if it's the end of human-generated content as we know it.

Two recommended ways to build a professional CV

In my previous article, I talked about how I made my LinkedIn profile more visible, and you should start with that article before reading this one. If you could attract the right recruiter's attention, you will be asked to provide a CV to join the interview process. You

How I made my LinkedIn profile visible

I decided that it was time I made myself more visible on LinkedIn. I had successfully found a job on LinkedIn in the past but I knew by looking at other developers profile that mine couldn't compete. I decided to fix it.

The books I recommend the most

Table of content 1. Team Management. 2. Product Management. 3. Agility and delivery. 4. Software system design. 5. Personal development. 6. UI/UX Team Management The five dysfunctions of a team by Patrick M. Lencioni Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions that go to the heart of why

My mentoring session inspired by Andrew Grove's book: High output management

I was in a mentoring call with an engineer who earned a promotion to become a team lead and started his new position the week after the call. They were excited by their latest adventure. They also felt the need to begin their new role the right way. They wanted

As a manager, what happens if you get hit by a bus?

We will all have to deal with bad things happening that we couldn't plan for them. When these things happen, our organization or we have to continue to work with a somewhat level of success. We have chaos engineering for distributed systems and micro-services that allow us to