Offering a Full-Stack Design & Development Package for Businesses & Founders

If you’re a business owner, startup founder, or entrepreneur looking to establish or revamp your digital presence, I’m currently offering a comprehensive design and development package for $5k.

What’s included:

• Web design and development for any kind of website (excluding e-commerce and Shopify)
• SaaS MVP product development
• UX/UI design
• Logo and brand identity design

With 8 years of experience in design and development, I’ve worked across various industries, delivering high-quality digital products. My project delivery timeline ranges from 2 to 4 weeks, depending on the complexity. Here are some of the key projects I’ve built:

1. Shortlet Booking Platform (Similar to Airbnb, Focused on Nigeria)
A web app that helps users find and book shortlets in Nigeria, starting with Benin City. It features exclusive discounts, QR code-based payment proof, and an affiliate-based revenue model.

2. Location Navigator Web App
A Next.js-powered platform that recommends fun and chill places based on Michelin-style ratings. Admins personally visit and review locations based on factors like vibe, hospitality, service, and pricing, then upload images and ratings for users to explore.

3. FileGate (Productivity Software)
A SaaS productivity tool designed to streamline file management and collaboration. Built to enhance workflow efficiency, FileGate provides an intuitive way to store, share, and organize files seamlessly.

4. Instagram Automation Tool
A Python and Flask-powered automation tool for Instagram growth. It allows users to configure automated likes, follows, and (soon) comments using the instagrapi library.

5. The Perfume Shop
A fragrance and perfume business offering high-quality perfumes and diffusers. I handle branding, design, and the online presence to ensure a premium shopping experience.

6. Solana Memecoin Trading
Actively involved in Web3, I’ve worked on trading Solana-based memecoins and exploring strategies for on-chain growth.

If you need a high-quality website, a polished SaaS MVP, or a complete brand identity, this package delivers everything you need at a competitive price.

DM me if you’re interested or want to see more of my work.

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I Quit My Job to Build TeachFlow – Looking for YouTubers Who Believe in This Dream

Hey everyone,

This is a bit personal, but I wanted to share my journey. I recently quit my job to go all in on TeachFlow, a platform I truly believe in. It's built for developers who want to share their knowledge, create coding courses, and actually get paid for their work, kind of like Patreon, but designed specifically for dev content.

I've poured everything into this. Countless late nights, but I know this can make a difference. Imagine a world where courses seamlessly integrated with VS Code and create a fun and interactive tutorial.

Now, I need help. If you’re a YouTuber or content creator in tech, I’d love to connect. Whether it’s feedback, a collab, or just a chat about the idea, your insights could mean the world to me.

If this resonates with you, check it out here: https://teachflow.app.

And also this is the behind the scene of how you can create a page that interact whit vscode:

https://youtu.be/oKxfpUfFVeU

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Would you use something like this?

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GitHub "infrastructure" via Terraform and GitHub Actions

Quick background: I'm part of a platform engineering team that currently tries to set up GitHub as primary development platform for the entire company.

We are heavily using Terraform for other platforms already and considering using the same tool to configure our GitHub enterprise (and more specifically the organization-level settings and rulesets) via IaC.

Now to the actual question: Are any of you heavy user of the terraform provider and, if so, how are you rolling out the infrastructure code?


We'd love using GitHub Actions for deployment (we are already using it with other providers and OIDC where possible) but providing access from GitHub "within" GitHub is a bit of a mess. PATs or personal gh CLI logins are out for obvious reasons, GH App is always pointed to as the best practice but "exposing" the private key within the flow directly sounds horrendous, security-wise.

My current approach would be this: We provide dedicated GH app hosted on our end with an endpoint that the workflow authenticates with and that returns an installation access token to the workflow. This token is then used for the

Does someone have a setup similar to this? Or a completely alternative approach? At this point, I'm wondering if it's even worth having a workflow or if the GH App can't do the heavy lifting itself. In general, I'm quite frustrated that the official documentation states that the private key of a GitHub App app should be stored securely and only be used for signing but at the same time all of the official GH SDKs/toolkits (e.g. octokit too) require the raw file for authentication.

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Lambda Killing K8s?

There is a large push in my org to move from K8s to Lambda. That’s cool, but feels like that kind of removes the ops from devops. There would essentially be no reliance on operations with serverless right?

We have a cloud ops team and a devops team, but this migration makes me nervous. What’s left? Pipeline jockey?

Are my worries valid? Am I missing something?

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How to block incoming traffic from certain IPs?

I encountered unwanted traffic from a small group of IPs, I decided to block them, but I didn’t quite understand how



After looking at a couple of articles about nginx, I realized that you can specify deny ip; but for some reason he was never able to block my IP, for some reason I still had access to the site



I wanted to check with you whether it is possible to block an IP to my server at the Google Cloud level and how, maybe there is a detailed article?


Thank you all in advance for your time

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Right tool for the task

I need to check a large number of Linux servers for storage, networking related config files and settings. I would be executing a lot of commands and I like to write complex logic based analyzing the output of the commands.


Is Ansible the right tool ? Or there other tools I need to be evaluating ?

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Creating test databases from the production database?

Assume I have a production Postgres database running on secure server infrastructure. It contains information that the company considers to be sensitive (e.g. they wouldn't want it becoming public) but it isn't regulated (e.g. GDPR doesn't apply to the data.)
My developers need to pull down a copy of this database for testing purposes on local laptops. They are OK with sensitive data being randomized or sometimes masked. They will be using these test databases to test local versions of the software on their laptops during the development process.
I do not want to install any extensions on the production database. I'm also wary of a messy set of scripts that may be challenging to review.

What's the best way to solve this problem?



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Create secrets from a p12 cert

I have a .p12 cert:

1. Converted .p12 to .pem: winpty openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -out cert.pem -clcerts -nodes
2. Extracted the private key from the pem file: winpty openssl pkey -in cert.pem -out key.pem
3. Extracted the cert portion from the pem file: winpty openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 -cacerts -nokeys -out ca.crt

Now I need to create a secrets.yaml that has ENC[AES256_GCM,data ...,type:str\]block in it but not sure how to do that. I used the openssl enc command and it encrypts the data which does not give me the ENC blocks I need. sops -e and base64 -w0 also do not create these blocks. Could someone please shed some light on this?

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Need suggestions on IAM roles and policy

How are you contorting IAM roles and polices in you Org .
What is your experience ?


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What Are the Common Challenges Businesses Face in LLM Training and Inference?

Hi everyone, I’m relatively new to the AI field and currently exploring the world of LLMs. I’m curious to know what are the main challenges businesses face when it comes to training and deploying LLMs, as I’d like to understand the challenges beginners like me might encounter.

Are there specific difficulties in terms of data processing or model performance during inference? What are the key obstacles you’ve encountered that could be helpful for someone starting out in this field to be aware of?

Any insights would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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Where do you store your config, code snippets?

DevOps professionals, where do you typically store your code/config snippets, and how often do you find yourself reusing them?

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suggestions/advice needed

Hey Guys,
I am a experienced Devops engineer 13 years with good experience in migration projects from on prem to cloud.
However I feel stuck in my career and would like some advise, to move forward.
As of now, I don’t hold any certs for any cloud provider but I am open to that if required.
Suggestions/Advice welcome.

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Senior DevOps Engineer Resume Review & Critique

Resume

I've been working on my resume to maximize my chances of landing a Senior DevOps Engineer role.

Does my resume clearly convey that I am targeting senior positions? I haven't included detailed descriptions of tasks like writing custom CI/CD pipelines, optimizing monitoring stacks, or designing multi-cloud networking architectures for cost and latency optimization, as adding these details would make my resume exceed one page.

Should I remove older experiences and focus more on my current role? Additionally, I have worked extensively as a DevSecOps Engineer—does my resume reflect that effectively?

Please Feel free to tear it apart !!

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Best Cloud Provider for AI-Powered Android App? AWS vs. Oracle vs. Others?

Hey everyone, I'm working as a solution architect for a startup building an AI chatbot app for mental health support. The app will be available on Android (and later web), using generative AI trained on medical data. We need a cloud provider that is cost-effective, scalable, and reliable, especially for handling AI workloads, chat history storage, and blockchain-based data selling. Right now, we’re debating between AWS and Oracle (since Oracle might be cheaper in Egypt), but we’re open to other suggestions.

**Some key points:**

* AI processing: Need a strong ML/AI infrastructure.
* Data storage: Must retain chat history per user like ChatGPT.
* Scalability: Targeting 100,000 users in the first year, possibly more.
* Cost: We will test on free tiers but need a sustainable pricing model later.
* Performance: Needs to handle real-time AI chat interactions smoothly.

Which cloud provider would you recommend for our use case? Anyone with experience scaling AI apps on AWS, Oracle, or other platforms?

Also, if you have insights on bandwidth costs, database choices, I'd love to hear them!

Thanks in advance.

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Quick question about whether should I join an organisation or not ?

I am unemployed from past 1.4 years.

I want to enter into devops field and recently received an offer from a company for the post of junior Devops Engineer but when I read the reviews on ambition box , 50% of people have mentioned that CEO is not friendly and shouts at people and work culture is not top notch, also I will be on probation period for 3 months.

I desperately want a job and enter into devops field to learn about tools and technologies.

I am second guessing to join or not.

Any suggestions will be helpful...

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Is there a 'NetBox for cloud environments'?

For the past 15 years of my career I was working with onpremise environments, primarily as a network and infrastructure engineer. At my last job we worked with NetBox as a SSOT and pretty much used its entire feature set for DCIM, IPAM, VLANs, configuration and change management etc. and were pretty happy with it. I recently started a new job in an OPS team of a company providing a SaaS platform. Everything is in the cloud at various providers and is entirely managed through Ansible.

While this approach works for the most part, there are (at least IMO) some design flaws, for example the inventory is built from the currently active resources in a group, so there is no defined desired state for the resources themselves.

So long story short, I'm thinking of building a SSOT solution to resolve this (and some other) issue(s). However, I was unable to find a solution which focuses on cloud environments. I considered using NetBox and 'abusing' some fields to reflect cloud environments, but I'm pretty sure this is not feasable in the long run.

What's a viable approach here?

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Debug & chill - Articles of infra & devops debugging

Hey everyone!
Back in 2020, I started jotting down notes about various debugging adventures to keep track of my process and insights. I’ve finally turned them into a series of blog posts—totally free and purely for educational purposes. If you’re curious about network troubleshooting (and some cool tools to help you along the way), check out the first episode here:

Debug and Chill #1

It covers a relatively simple network issue but offers plenty of takeaways you can apply to other situations. I hope you find it helpful! Let me know what you think.

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Experienced sa/devops - Learning basic Python quickly

I have over 5 years of experience with linux system administration (all the classics), and cloud/DevOps (terraform, kubernetes, ci/cd etc) and I know how to write basic bash scripts. I have a few interviews coming up and I understood that there will be fairly basic coding assignments.

I guess that they can be done with Bash, but diving deeply into bash seems a bit pointless to me, and the syntax for scripts that are above something basic looks complicated.

I worked with Python, sometimes helped debugging some code, I can kind of understand it, but I can't really write it (without gpt), I never learned it properly. Is it realistic and is it a good idea to try to intensively learn the basics to the level of solving a coding challenge in an interview for a DevOps position in let's say a week? Or I'd better spend this time diving deeper into bash? And which learning resources would you recommend in my case? I see that many courses are geared towards developing and such while it's not as relevant in my case.

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Thank you all and Goodbye!


I got told I'm affected in VMware's latest layoffs, and I've decided to quit tech after 10 years and focus on my knifemaking hobby to be more consistent in delivering orders on time :D

Reading this sub throughout my career has been so helpful professionally, so thank you all! Wishing everyone's servers/deployments good health! Goodbye!

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Is there any free database client for MacOS which supports IAM auth?

wondering if there is any database tool for MacOS that has support for IAM based authentication.

It looks like licensed versions of dbeaver support it but I'm wondering if there are any other options.

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I'm having some serious problems with GitHub Actions

Hello there.

I am just a poor dotnet dev trying to automatize the release of his internal app.

What I wanna do in a single action is:

- Build the app in a runner (it's a WinForms app, so it has to be windows-latest)

- Name the release in a certain pattern (e.g. yyyy-MM-dd_vXX) where XX is the build number of the day (so the first release for a day will be 01, second release for the day 02 and so on).

- Then zip the build output and make a github release.

I've spent literally the past 12 hours trying to get this to work somehow.

I'm at the stage where I've got a little app written in Go that uses the GitHub API to get and increment the version string. It then outputs three strings (name of the release, name of the zip file, name of the db-migration-runner-app zip file), which are then supposed to be written to the $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT file using a little powershell script.

The Go program is a separate repo/action that I am using in the main dotnet app workflow. It then tries to pass out the strings in the action outputs to be used in next steps, but to no avail.

Here's the relevant output part of the Go app's action.yml

releaseName:
description: 'Name of the release'
releaseNameZip:
description: 'Name of the release with a .zip suffix'
migratorNameZip:
description: 'Name of the release'

I've tried doing this after supposedly setting the file in the action (powershell):

Write-Host "Reading github output file"
Write-Host (Get-Content -Path $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT)

But the runner's logs show nothing.

So I've tried getting the $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT using the simple pwsh command:

$env:GITHUB_OUTPUT

Yet it shows that the variable inside the runner is empty for some reason

I'm contemplating three options:

- Commiting sudoku

- Rewriting this action in JS and using official bindings instead of go

- Using a different scripting language to just build + increment version + zip + upload release in one "step".

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