Velda Kiara
@VeldaKiara
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Software Developer, DevOps and Technical Writer by day, dragon slayer by night 💜🐍⭐️
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"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should."
~ Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
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Made it to the list 👯👯👯👯👯
🚀🚀🚀
Today, we’re excited to expand this group with the addition of 8 new developers!
Welcome to the program, kings and queens 👑
@andreitr
,
@dara_tobi
,
@Harmon758Public
,
@RedouaneBali
,
@ryanjgallag
,
@fourtonfish
,
@v21
,
@VeldaKiara
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It's my BIRRTTHHHDDAYYY!!!
I am grateful for the mishaps, and achievements I have had so far. It may not look exactly how I planned but it's clearly creatively coming together.
Another year, another opportunity to do more and be more.
👩💻
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I finally got the Scholarship ✨🎊🎉🎊🤓🎉, I just can't keep calm.
In other words,I got my early Christmas gift.🎉🎊🎉🤓🥂🥂✨💫
#UdacityIntelTechScholars
@udacity
@intel
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I am thrilled to have spoken about building API'S using
@OpenApiSpec
,
@djangoproject
and
@restframework
during
@oscafest
yesterday 🤗🤗
As
@unicodeveloper
loves to say,
"Another day, another opportunity to be world class".
#oscafest23
#APIs
#python
#opensource
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It's my 22nd birthday 🎊🎊.
2nd floor, 2nd room, it actually has a nice ring to it. The world is my oyster and I deserve everything good thing in this life ❤. 🥂To being bold and beautiful, ambitious and brave, being better on a daily and being my authentic self every time.
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🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 I am on a roll.
First
@pycon
and I get to help out the Python Steering Council moving forward 😁😁
Now to figure out how to contribute to Core Python during the sprints!
#soontobecorepythoncontributor
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I am super duper excited to share that my talk on building on the Twitter API has been accepted for the Third Annual Pycon Kenya 🚀🚀🚀
@pythonairobi
#PyConKE
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Writing Updates to Django the same week I am announced as a Board Director for DEFNA 💜💜💜 a very lovely scene!
This issue is definitely getting framed!
Read more here:
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I am honored and thrilled to be featured as a
#womenintech
by Creative Collective which is founded by
@thenarhh
.
Here is the link to the article
👯♀👯♀👯♀👯♀.
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The newest 23y/o is here 😊 I am so excited for this particular bday because it brings a lot of changes,beginnings&ends to different phases in my life
I am ecstatic & scared but God's grace is sufficient.
Celebrating all the million little miracles &I cannot even count them all
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Hi, I'm looking for product/project/program managers in Nairobi to join a panel at our event. If you know of anyone who would be a valuable addition to our panel, let me know
They'll have the opportunity to share their expertise with a diverse audience
Thanks for your help
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Come say hello and join us /support us
@pycon
in our community booth for
@blackpythondevs
It's going to be huugggeeeee 🫣
Tomorrow our Executor
@kjaymiller
is going to be giving a keynote too!
In about 6 hours the biggest news from
@blackpythondevs
will drop! I’m so excited for this moment.
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My hand gestures overworking 🤣🤣🤣
𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 10𝗫 𝗽𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 with
@VeldaKiara
#DSEAfricaMeetUp
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The link to my slides, code, and docker image are here:
I had a great time speaking
@djangocon
2023.
Special thanks to my cousins
@kjaymiller
@felipedemorais_
@KojoIdrissa
@MesrenyameDogbe
Y'all are heaven sent 💜
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I am honored to have spoken at the 3rd annual Pycon summit in Kenya.
I enjoyed speaking on Building on the Twitter API using Python.
I met amazing people and learned a lot from other talks as well.
Thanks,
@pythonairobi
& all the organizers
@Monicoyugi
@NdemoKelvin
@b1ackd0t
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I just passed through the GitHub booth at
#OSCAFest22
and met the amazing
@abena_praba
😊😊😊
I may have also snuck in some stickers for my peeps 😂😂😂
#GithubXOSCA
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😁😁😁💃💃💃💃💃💃
Speaker shout-out to
@VeldaKiara
. Join us for her talk Building Powerful APIs with Django, Django Rest Framework, and OpenAPI.
#djangocon
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I am super gleeful to announce that I will be participating in the First Batch of the Technical Writing Bootcamp by
@hashnode
from 21st September to 2nd October.
I cannot wait to learn from writers like
@catalinmpit
@lo_victoria2666
@mycodinghabits
@tapasadhikary
🎉🎊🎉
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My Take aways from
#DevfestKisumu
No one will hand you opportunity, you have to aggressively pursue them.
Believe every work you are doing will pay off in due time.
If you are not learning you are not growing.
@auwalms
@aniediudo
@EricaKHanson
@DeniseAllela
@_jkimani
@kynoti
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I wrote about my experience
@djangocon
this year.
The video and presentation slides is included!
Enjoy!
"DjangoConUS 2023: A Wish Fulfilled" by
@VeldaKiara
#DEVCommunity
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Happy birthday to my tech mama
@jillodidah
💐💐💐🥳🥳🥳
Enjoy your day!!
Wishing you endless blessings 🎂🎂
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Super excited to be attending
Google I/O Connect in Amsterdam 😃
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I just published an article about testing in software development.
Learn about different types of testing, tools you can use, and what to test for at each stage of the development process.
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As I hang my coat of being a
@dscjkuat
lead, I have shared my experience through the article linked below.
I have talked about my failures, successes and upswings.
Happy graduation day ✨🥳 to 2019/2020 DSC leads
@auwalms
@aniediudo
@DeniseAllela
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Thank you to all folks who attended my talk 😀😀, you are all the real deal 😁😁
The repository:
The spec:
The slides:
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Had a great time at Flutter Forward 💙💙
It was great meeting you
@puf
@nlycskn
@ThomasBurkhartB
@divyanshub024
👯♂️👯♂️👯♂️
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I will be attending
@oscafrica
👯♀👯♂👯♀.
I would like to thank
@unicodeveloper
for my
@oscafrica
event ticket.
As
@chao_mbogho
used to tell us, "The world is your Oyster."
And my favorite "Be brave and fearless" from my mentor
@scheafferoo
.
#IthankGodforallofyou
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Surprise from
@TwitterDev
😜😋
Lunch just got a little bit more interesting
Thanks
@LeBraat
and
@2006legend
#BuildWhatsNext
🚀
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Happy birthday to
@TabithaKavyu
the remarkable community manager of
@AltSchoolAfrica
Keep being salient 🔥🔥🔥
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Today, we start off the 100 days of articles and 100 days of code.
Let's go!
@wayne_gakuo
#100DaysofCode
#100DaysofArticles
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Super stoked✨ to have my talk on the Twitter API and Python in
#pyconke
held by
@pythonairobi
If you would like to attend my talk, it's going to be on 7th May, Saturday at 12:15 PM at SST LT 4 (USIU)
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I am learning Data Structures and Algorithms which have strangely become really interesting.
I chose to learn this because I realized if I got in a position where I had to use the concepts I would not be able to since I cannot use what I do not know
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👼👼👼👼🥷🥷🧑💻🧑💻💃👯👯💃
See you in a few days 🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨
Guess who is in the house, 🎉🥳,
@VeldaKiara
will be at PyconKe 2022 to talk using Python to build on the Twitter API, Velda is a passionate and experienced Python Engineer currently
@TambuaHealth
#PyConKE2022
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I'm listening to
@Kai_mwanyumba
go through word embeddings, and I remember attending his first talk, still beaming with the same energy if not more and delivering the talk seamlessly 🔥🔥🔥
I am so proud 👏🏾 🔥🔥👏🏾👏🏾
Go
@Kai_mwanyumba
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I will be speaking at the API Festival on Friday at 10:55am, Mwina Hall. 👩🏾💻
The festival is going to take three spectacular days, Thursday to Saturday 💃
You don't want to miss it! 😃
I hope to see you there.😉
Join us as we dive into
"Unleashing the Power of API Development with Django, DRF, and OpenAPI" with the incredible
@veldakiara
.
This session is perfect for developers who want to learn how to build powerful APIs.
#django
#drf
#openapi
#apidev
#APIFestivalKE
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My feet will be testing API's tonight 😂😂😂 as I think about event driven architecture 🙊🙊
Thanks
@arlemi
@getpostman
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Pulling up to AWTC19 with
@ritakaniaru
. 🎉🎉🎉🤗🤗🤗.
@AnitaB_org
@AnitaB_Nairobi
@wayne_gakuo
@_jumaallan
@CharityKith
@tessy_muiruri
@Basoimauryne
@akirachix
#AWTC19
#anitaBNairobi
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Currently at the DSC summit in Sub Saharan Africa being held at Accra Ghana. I am so elated to be interacting with other DSC leads.
@dscjkuat
@DiscoverJKUAT
#SSADSCSummit
#Accra
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I have just published an article on
@ThePracticalDev
.
It's based mainly on
@djangoproject
and a little bit on
@restframework
.
Check it out at
#100DaysOfCode
#100DaysOfArticles
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First time in Kisumu to attend
#devfestKisumu
#devfest
.
We definitely had to take pictures.
@mwaura_Ngige
@ThisIsPappi254
@wayne_gakuo
@_jumaallan
@makenasandra
@codemessy
@TabithaKavyu
@wambuicodes
@mumbicodes
@Miss_Gitaka
@_jkimani
@JeffAndeko
@Monicoyugi
@kendyjaky
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I shared my skills on writing award-winning essays as taught by
@KamiLimu
led by
@chao_mbogho
to 4 people who then applied for
@KamiLimu
.
I am pleased to announce that:
-2 got accepted
-1 got in the waiting list
-1 got rejected
#Buildingskillsandchanginglives
. 🎊🎉
@NeverestLLC
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Calling all Kenyans who would like to attend the festival to vote for 🇰🇪 as the venue for OSCAFest 2024!
Open Source Festival is around the corner, and we’re taking things a notch higher 🎉🎉. Can you tell us where and when you think it will hold this year?🤭.
If your choice is "None of the above," reply with what you are thinking🤭💃. Let’s go!📌
#oscafest24
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😃💜💯 Apply to speak at
@djangocon
🎊
✨Our
#DjangoCon
US 2024 Call for Proposals and Opportunity Grant Applications are OPEN!
See the details: for both close at Noon Eastern on Wednesday, April 24.
Get your proposals in!
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As developers, we know that APIs are essential for modern web applications.
In this article, I delve into API methods explaining their functions and best practices, and the common question, the difference between PUT and PATCH.
Check it out
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Looking forward to continue working with the new leadership team to create more awareness about Open Source.
The future is open 🚀
✨Big news,OSCA Nairobi fam✨
🫶 After incredible work building our community,
@VeldaKiara
and
@TabithaKavyu
are stepping down as leads.
💛 We are incredibly greatful for their dedication and passion
🎉 Stay tuned for exciting announcements about the new leadership team soon!
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It's finally time 👯♂👯♂👯♂.
Officially graduating from being a
@dscjkuat
Lead 🙌🙌👯♀👯♀👯♀🔥🔥
@auwalms
@aniediudo
#DSCSSAGraduation
#DeveloperStudentClubs
@googledevs
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I got selected to be a DEFNA Director!
Today's newsletter includes some personal news 🫣🤗
Read more about it here:
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In Data Structures and Algorithms, you need to understand the time and space complexities of the different algorithms that you write.
Read this to understand Big O Notation.
"Big O Notation: Time and Space Complexity" by
@VeldaKiara
#DEVCommunity
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I thank God for giving me an opportunity to be part of
@KamiLimu
and to be able to attend
@ghc
2019.
We can't keep calm! Our mentee
@VeldaKarimi
, a
@DiscoverJKUAT
student, has won a scholarship to attend Grace Hopper Conference
@ghc
in US.
A testament to her hard work & impact of our training on writing award-winning applications.
3rd time one of our mentees has won this!🎊🎉
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I made it 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Calling all Rick and Morty fans!
Get ready to dive into the multiverse with my latest article on
@GraphQL
adventure where we explore the fascinating world of the Rick and Morty API.
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"Part of the journey is the end. "
Today I officially graduate from
@KamiLimu
.
This past eight months have been nothing short of thrilling and an intensive learning experience.
@KamiLimu
is something everyone should experience.
Thank you
@chao_mbogho
.
Blessings💥💥
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It was such a pleasure and honour to get to speak and attend
@djangocon
for the first time 💜
This conference will always have a special place in my heart 💜
I learned so much and got to meet so many amazing people ✨️✨️
Thank you to everyone who made DjangoCon US in Durham so much fun. Great to see so much collaboration.
#djangocon
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I often heard of the word scrum in various forums. I did not understand it then but through research and exploration, I learned what scrum is and the difference between scrum and agile.
Here are a few things to note in Scrum:
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I just got my certificate after serving as
@dscjkuat
lead for the year 2019-2020.
👯✨🥳
#DeveloperStudentClubs
#DSCSSAGraduation
@googledevs
@googlestudents
@auwalms
@aniediudo
@EricaKHanson
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It was a pleasure giving this talk🙌😎🙌🙌
Thank you for the invite, definitely going to keep it up.
@VeldaKiara
let me leave this here, your talk on Data Structures and Algorithms at
#DSEAfricaMeetUp
was top-notch, one of the best, keep doing great work 👌
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My 2019 take aways.
-Show up regardless of what you are feeling.
-Stay teachable
-When applying for opportunities be intentional. Do not just go for any opportunity pick the one's that align to your long term goals.
-Stay humble.
-Feedback is a gift.
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The energy in this room by
@Kai_mwanyumba
🔥🔥🔥🔥
on learning about getting Started With Data Science The Right Way and Opportunities in Google is informative 👌
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Tech communities have played a huge role in my growth process as a developer. If you are not in any I would like to encourage you to join one.
A few that I know:
@TdevcommunityKe
@osca_nairobi
@SCAnairobi
@angular_kenya
@GDG_Nairobi
@254androiddevs
@reactdevske
@KenyaFlutterDev
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That excitement you feel when your mentor is in top 100 Kenyans in 2019.
@chao_mbogho
@KamiLimu
🎉🎊✨🎊🎉🎊✨🎊✨🎊
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I got featured on
@SCAnairobi
🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊👯♂️👯♂️👯♂️
Who exactly is
@VeldaKiara
? What drives her in the tech world? What is her area of expertise?
Check out our latest
@hashnode
article as we do a One on One Feature with Velda Kiara and get to answer these questions.
#womenwhocode
#technology
#features
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The GitHub Student Developer Pack is one of the things that I am grateful for as a student as well as a developer.
@github
@GitHubEducation
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Another one for the culture💜!
This week's Django updates on
@djangonewsbot
brought to you by me!🚀🐍
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Dive into the world of API versioning with this article!
Learn the rhythms of the Groove with the Funky API Versioning Boogie and master the art of seamless updates.
Let's keep those APIs grooving!
@ArticleStreak
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Happy birthday Twinnie 😍😍😍
🎉🎊🎂🎊🎂
To another year filled with God's Grace 🍾🍾
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I finally got to meet
@TejasKumar_
in person we talked about managing internal documentation as well as how to improve the documentation experience by checking your assumptions while creating docs. His talk on docs as a service was one of the highlights of my day 2
#OSCAFest2022
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In a few hours, I will be leading the Cloud study Jam by
@dscjkuat
.
See you soon.
👩🏾💻👩🏾💻👩🏾💻
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Join us as we learn how to forge a career path in Data Science. Not to mention we will be learning from the best people in the industry. 🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🤯🤯.
@auwalms
@aniediudo
@EricaKHanson
@DiscoverJKUAT
Hello Kenya!!!
Calling upon Novice, Practitioners, Experts or anyone simply curious about AI, Data Science and Machine Learning! Want to ride with the wave and forge a career path in Artificial Intelligence?
Come join us as we welcome the team to Kenya.
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I'm super duper excited to be joining
@bluehost
for a discussion around women in tech for
#InternationalWomensDay
! Join the convo using
#BHChat
Mon March 9th, 2ET/1CT.
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After being trained to write award winning essays I not only won the scholarship to attend
@ghc2019
but I also got selected to lead
@dscjkuat
for the year 2019/2020.
@KamiLimu
is all about changing lives and building skills. It changed mine, it will definitely change yours.
Here's the promo video for our 2nd scholarship training workshop on August 24th!
Please buy for yourself or for someone else a ticket via link below using mpesa/card.
All proceeds go to supporting the mentorship program, which is free for mentees.
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It's finally happening.
@andela_alc
Meet-up. I am supper psyched 😃😃 to attend it in
@Andela_Kenya
👯♂👯♂.
#150DaysOfALC4
#ALCwithGoogle
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I attended an amazing product event day by
@AnitaB_org
Kenya and
@AfricaProdPeers
Great informative content on product management and keynotes by amazing speakers.
Check out the event photos:
#productmanagement
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I am going to do an "I'm excited to announce..." very soon. Amen! 🥹🙏 God abeg do this one for your girl. 🧎🏾♀️🧎🏾♀️
I am going to do an "I'm excited to announce..." very soon. Amen! 🥹🙏 God abeg do this one for your girl. 🧎♀️
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Hiya Peeps,
A beautiful day to continue using Python.
In Python, particularly Django& Django Rest Framework what are some of the concepts that have given you trouble implementing or understanding?
Also, what tips and tricks do you know that you wished you knew way earlier?
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Special shoutout to
@PythonNigeria
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You all did a good job 💯💯
The atmosphere is charged with excitement at
#PyConNG
2024!
The energy is electrifying 🚀🚀
@temiloluwaafape
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Open Source 🔥🔥🔥
Working with
@unicodeveloper
, Odogwu 🙌🔥 and Oscar MARIE 🔥🙌
Thank you for listing the issue on Twitter
@unicodeveloper
. Let me continue cooking in open source👩💻👩💻>>>>>>>
How it started How it's going
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I'm honored to be a Co-Lead for the
@AnitaB_Nairobi
community; We connect, inspire & guide women in computing & organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative!
@wayne_gakuo
@tessy_muiruri
@Basoimauryne
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I am overwhelmed with joy for being accepted into the ALC program.
Thank you
@Andela
@googleafrica
@pluralsight
for this opportunity.
#ALCwithGoogle
#GrowWithGoogle
.
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🎉 Excited to share my latest article, "The Golden Ticket To Explore Google Cloud"! 🌐🔒
Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a business owner, or simply curious about cloud workings, this article offers a comprehensive understanding.
🚀 Check it out:
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In my opinion without being sentimental and being rude of cause, without offending anyone who thinks differently from my own point of view, but also by looking into this matter from a distinctive angle and perspective, I would like to say that purple is my favorite color
🙈🙊💜💜
Super stoked✨ to have my talk on the Twitter API and Python in
#pyconke
held by
@pythonairobi
If you would like to attend my talk, it's going to be on 7th May, Saturday at 12:15 PM at SST LT 4 (USIU)
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