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Engineering decisions, product lessons, AI workflows, and honest observations from building in public.

3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Flutter App

3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Flutter App

I copied AI-generated code without understanding it. State management broke me. I never documented a single bug. Here's what I learned — the hard way — before building my first Flutter app.

A Child in Primary 4 Who Cannot Read. This Is Why I Built a Phonics App.

A Child in Primary 4 Who Cannot Read. This Is Why I Built a Phonics App.

A school contracted me to teach phonics because their students couldn't read. What I found in that classroom — and what I built because of it — changed how I think about education, technology, and what Nigerian children actually need.

I Never Had a CS Degree. Here's What I Had Instead.

I Never Had a CS Degree. Here's What I Had Instead.

I grew up obsessed with technology but never owned a device. No degree, no mentor, no structured path — just obsession, borrowed phones, and a refusal to quit.

We Want Change. We Just Don't Want to Be Accountable for It.

Building a payment protection product in Nigeria taught me something uncomfortable — the people who need trust infrastructure the most are often the ones most resistant to embracing it.

I Got Scammed. So I Built the Solution.

I Got Scammed. So I Built the Solution.

I've been scammed as a buyer, lost clients as a vendor, and watched Nigeria's trust problem kill businesses that deserved to thrive. So I built Zolarux — a trust infrastructure platform for social commerce in Nigeria.