How We Built PrepOrder to Work When the Network Doesn'tBuilding a food ordering app for Africa means accepting one hard truth: the network will let your users down. Every single day. PrepOrder is a food ordering app built in Kampala. From day one we knew Aug 24 · 8 min readayaf.hashnode.dev
It Worked in Development. Then Google Play Crashed It.The first real Android release of PrepIQ taught me a few hard lessons about Expo, EAS, OAuth, and push notifications, the kinds of things you never run into on your local machine until real users try Aug 14 · 6 min readayaf.hashnode.dev
How Modern LLMs Actually “Think”If you’ve ever googled “how do Large Language Models actually work,” you’ve probably seen the same canned answer everywhere: “It just predicts the next word.” Technically true. Practically useless. It1Jun 20 · 6 min readayaf.hashnode.dev
Tips for coping with the speed of the tech industry“As someone just starting out in the tech industry, I'm finding it challenging to keep up with all the new programming languages and frameworks constantly being released. I'm currently learning Python and React, and sometimes it feels like I'm fallin...1Mar 12, 2024 · 5 min readayaf.hashnode.dev
The Craft of Software Development - Beyond Coding.Introduction 🔰 The Software Craftsmanship movement emphasizes professionalism in software development. According to James Clear's popular best-seller Atomic Habits. if we want to see better results and stick to our habits, we have to start with our ...1Apr 4, 2023 · 11 min readayaf.hashnode.dev