Here’s a thread of all the tech fields I know you can go into, what to expect, what to learn, and what working in that field would look like?

This thread includes the ones that requires you to write codes and the ones you don’t need to write codes.

They all pay well💰💰

1. Frontend: On the basics, you’ll be building designs provided by a designer (or yourself). You’ll be coding with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There’s always a lot of job openings too.

You see all those fine fine website/apps you see. Frontend developers built them.

Big 💰💰

2. UI designer: Most times, before people who write codes start their work, a designer needs to first design what the website would look like.
UI designers don’t write codes, but they make sure the designs they provide are great. You’ll use @figmadesign and other tools. Big 💰

3. Backend: A little bit of HTML, CSS & JS. Just the basics. Your day to day work would be around API (writing codes that connects something to something). You’ll be doing a lot of the coding that keeps the system running.

Working with either PHP/ NodeJS/ Python/ Java etc. 💰💰

4. Product Manager: Developers and designers are great at building, but not necessarily managing the life cycle. You would not be writing codes here but you’ll be managing the software/webApp that has been built or current being built. You’ll work with people a lot here.
Big 💰

10 months ago I had 700 followers.

Today I have over 40k friends here.

Here are 29 tips to grow a small account:

Tip:
Quantity leads to quality

Explanation:
Tweet an obscene amount when you start. You will never know what great content actually looks like until you make enough bad content to find out.

Who does this well?
@APompliano

Tip:
Engage with "Notch Above" accounts

Explanation:
Don't flock to Naval's tweets. Find someone a step ahead of you (e.g. if you're at 500, target an account with 2,000.) They just did what your next step is. Build that relationship.

Who does this well?
@AprilynneA

Tip:
Analyze formats and patterns

Explanation:
Content is king, but format is queen. Find different styles to format your posts and unique ways of saying things. Notice the patterns that successful accounts follow.

Who does this well?
@AlexLlullTW

Tip
Study the writing of great accounts

Explanation:
Compile a list of accounts you personally like. What is it about their writing that sticks with you? What frameworks do they use for writing? Twitter is all about interesting writing.

Who does this well?
@adelinethewong

I analyzed 100s of landing pages to give you some inspiration.

Here are 34 of the very best:

Website:
@WearAtoms

1 Great Feature:
Gives us options, but not too many options.

1 Opportunity:
Reduce the speed of the rotating banner.

Website:
@coda_hq

1 Great Feature:
Great copy that informs and relates all at once.

1 Opportunity:
The colors may be a bit too much here. Needs greater contrast of elements.

Website:
@DescriptApp

1 Great Feature:
Eyes point straight to the button on this page.

1 Opportunity:
Needs social proof above the fold.

Website:
@every

1 Great Feature:
Adds a micro-delight under the button to accentuate the call to action.

1 Opportunity:
Show us the newsletter on a device.

ES2021 is going to land soon 🚀
It's gonna be really exciting.

Meanwhile - are you fully up to speed with all the cool things we got from ES2020?

Let's take a look at a few of them here 🧵 👇

⚡ Dynamic import

With this new feature, we can import JavaScript modules dynamically, as we need it.

This pattern is also known as code-splitting, and with ES2020 we can do this natively instead of relying on tools like Webpack.

⚡ Optional Chaining

With this feature, we can now access deeply nested properties without having to null-check.

Notice how 'quxBaz' becomes undefined instead of throwing a reference error.

⚡ Nullish Coalescing

With Nullish Coalescing, we can now evaluate values that are 'nullish', not just 'falsy'.

Notice how the variable 'foo' is falsy, but not nullish (null or undefined).
In some cases, we want to use fallbacks only in the case of null or undefined.

⚡ globalThis

If you want to reuse code across different runtimes, you'll run into trouble with the global object.

globalThis will reference 'window' in browsers, 'global' in Node.js, and 'self' in Web Workers.

Now we don't have to manually detect the runtime anymore.

10 of my founder friends are forces of nature.

Their startups are now worth $400M+ each.

4 behaviors I've observed:

Effective people optimize for what compounds—not just quick wins.

They train themselves to get a dopamine hit when they help their future selves—even if they receive no immediate benefit from the action.

What compounds:

• Building audiences
• Relationships
• Investing $

In school, we learn by being curious and by accepting when we're wrong.

As adults, we forget we're still students—of life.

Effective people recreate environments where they're still told they're wrong:

They befriend blunt, independent-minded thinkers who'll call them out.

Effective people defer stuff that doesn’t matter, and always get started on what does.

Momentum is about rate of iteration and persistence, not brilliance.

I don’t know one force of nature founder who isn’t strongly biased toward taking action.

Success therefore appears to be two things:

1. Point yourself in the right direction.

2. Do the work even when you're not in the mood to.

Both are necessary.

(Plus luck and privilege, of course.)

Important Topics to learn/master to become a DECENT JavaScript Developer

A Thread🧵

I have seen most beginner web developers skip these topics and directly move on to frameworks/libraries.

The following topics will help you in your career, and they will also make you a better JavaScript developer.
👇

1.⚡️ Closure
A closure gives you access to an outer function’s scope from an inner function. In JavaScript, closures are created every time a function is created, at function creation time.

2.⚡️ Asynchronous JavaScript
We all know JavaScript is Asynchronous but mostly we ignore how it's single threaded execution is actually working.
looking under the hood of JavaScript's working will definitely help you to understand the language better.

3.⚡️ Promises
A Promise is a proxy for a value not necessarily known when the promise is created. It allows you to associate handlers with an asynchronous action's eventual success value or failure reason.

Came here for a second to say this: If you are in tech or starting out in tech, thrive, work hard and grow to the extent that you don't have to work with any Nigerian company.
From experience, I strongly believe that most Nigerian companies lack empathy, communication and...
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Skill management, until the idea of micromanaging roles in Nigeria is demolished, try your best to get international gigs. From experience, international companies might not know it all, but I believe they have the learning culture already embedded in them..

if you call yourself an expert, they tend to listen to you first and learn from you first before downplaying your opinions. They also have a way of making allowance for their staff knowing that life can be a mess sometimes. They don't use your life experiences to judge your work.

Am I saying working with Nigerian companies is bad? No, all I'm saying from my experience, it's better for your growth and mental health to work with people who value your opinions, skill and emotions and these for me are often found with international companies.

🔥 5 Awesome Design Tools 🔥

Have you been eyeing these cool cards and thumbnails that a lot of us are sharing?

Do you want to get started as well?
Here are 5 tools to get you going 👇 🧵

🔸 Figma

This is the one I personally prefer.
It's a little more advanced than other tools, but you can really make some cool stuff once you get familiar with

🔸 Canva

This is a super popular tool - if you're a beginner in graphic design, this tool is for

🔸 Carbon

With Carbon, you can make cool-looking small code snippets.
Their UI is a bit clunky, but you can configure your snippets in a broad range of different

🔸 Snappify

Snappify is similar to Carbon, but has an overall better UX.
With Snappify, it's really easy to make beautiful looking snippets *fast*, even though it's a bit more limited in terms of customizability than

10 HTML and CSS tips that you need to know😉

🧵👇🏻

1️⃣ Customize the text selection

- The ::selection pseudo-element matches the portion of an element that is selected by a user.

2️⃣ Range Input

- You can change the styling of input type="range"

3️⃣ Custom Scrollbar

- Customize the scrollbar of your website in few minutes

4️⃣ Scrollable element

- If you have some fixed size element then use overflow: auto. It will convert your element into scrollable element

Websites to find code snippets.

🧵

1. CSS Tricks Snippets

~ HTML
~ CSS
~ Sass
~ SVG
~ htaccess
~ JavaScript
~ jQuery
~ WordPress
~ PHP

Link:

2. 30 Seconds Of Code

~ JavaScript
~ CSS
~ Python
~ React

Link:

3. Codeply

~ CSS
~ JavaScript
~ Vue
~ React

Link:

4. CSSDeck

~ CSS

Link:

Wikipedia will be adding a list of African youths building amazing products in the technology space. I’ve recommended a few like The Flux team, @ichtrojan for building @abeg_app, kindly point me to other founders/ devs that are building amazing products.

Dear Nigerian men,

If you’re going to ask a woman out on a date.

“Mind chilling at, let’s hang, we could chill at, etc.”

Are not how to do it. It communicates the consistent noncommittal BS that is tiring.

That’s probably why she’s losing interest after you indicate meeting.

She’s not one of your guys. It shows low effort when you do that.

She’s a woman that wants to be asked out like you made an effort.

“Would you like to go out with me?
Can I take you to so so and so?

Does 8pm work for you?
Can we do lunch at so so by 3pm?
What don’t you eat?”

Act like you’re making an effort to actually date her.

Call to find out if you’re still on, don’t just be quiet till it’s time for the date.
Call to cancel plans or communicate a change in time, go there early, don’t dress like you just came out of your bathroom to fry egg.

Smell nice, use deodorant, hold the door for her, ask if she’s comfortable where she’s sat, if she complains about something being wrong with her food, ask if the waiter can do anything about it.

Don’t text someone you’re going out with at the time of the date with ‘sup’

‘Sup’ what sir?

Why is she the one texting you to find out if you’re still on for the date?
Did she beg you?

Why are you asking someone out to dinner and going there with track suit and bathroom slippers?
Is it crack, love?

PLEASE NAU!

GETTING A REMOTE JOB FROM THE ABROAD: THE BASICS

I have some free time now. I can’t promise that this thread will not be lengthy, but I can assure you that it would be valuable.

So, please, retweet. Be a contributor to someone’s growth.

In the last one month, at least 4 people from the last w/shop have gotten remote jobs paying them in dollars. It’s not rocket science, if you can follow the steps in this thread, you can do it. That’s all for the introduction, let’s get to business.

The first thing you should have is a VALUABLE SKILL. Yes, you write, but is your writing valuable? You do not have to be a pro-writer; you just have to be good at what you do. You could be a programmer, video-editor, proofreader,...

UI/UX designer, language translator, virtual assistant, tech bro. Whatever it is, someone somewhere is willing to pay for that skill. Always have that in mind.

So, what happens if you do not have a skill? Learn. There are hundreds of valuable skills you can learn.

Earlier in the month, one of my followers started a course to become a product designer. She was a food vendor but seeing as she was interested in earning with a digital skill, she started the course.

The easiest way to make $9,000 every month.

A thread 🧵👇

I used this strategy when I was just getting started in online business. I wanted to make enough to:

1. Live a comfortable life
2. Not have to work for somebody else.

$9,000/month can change your life 🙌 Especially if you are looking to step into entrepreneurship full-time.

You are going to create and sell a high-value digital product.

Why a digital product? Why not SAAS or Ecom?

🚀 Faster To Build
🚀 Easier To Sell
🚀 Simpler To Operate
🚀 No Cost of Goods

This means you can go from making $0 to $9,000/month in 60 days or less.

First, you need VALUE 🔑

Digital products are designed to do ONE THING.

Take a customer from Point A (painful problem) to Point B (enjoyable solution).

It doesn't really matter what you talk about.

It could be running profitable facebook ads or baking the perfect muffin.

Your primary goal is to understand the problem a group of people is experiencing and create a ROADMAP to their desired outcome.

Example: This 30 Day Blueprint Helps Unemployed Full-Stack Developers Land Their Dream Job in Silicon Valley.

Clear 📍Point A --> 📍Point B.