Damilola Oladele

I received the inaugural @blackpythondevs Distinguished Service Award in recognition of my dedication, leadership, and meaningful impact on the community. Read more: damilola-oladele.dev/posts/received…

While API references are important, they are just one component of a complete API documentation experience. Like other forms of product documentation, effective API documentation requires thinking beyond a list of endpoints and fields. Read more: damilola-oladele.dev/posts/api-docu…

After 22 months as Documentation Lead for Black Python Devs, I’m stepping into a broader leadership role while continuing to lead documentation efforts. I’m the new 𝗦𝘂𝗯-𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮. Read more: damilola-oladele.dev/posts/new-role…

Documentation maintainers are the unsung heroes of open source. They make projects accessible, guide new contributors, and keep knowledge alive—yet their work often goes unnoticed. To begin changing that, I’m launching a new series titled 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, where documentation maintainers share their experiences, challenges, and insights about open-source documentation. Want a preview of what's coming? → damilola-oladele.dev/oss-doc-storie… Help me find your favourite open-source documentation maintainer! Drop names in the comments, and let’s celebrate the people behind the docs.

Short-term contracts are common in technical writing, but they come with a reputation problem. Even when you do excellent work, a series of brief engagements can raise questions during hiring. Open-source work offers a practical way to offset that bias and build a stronger professional profile: damilola-oladele.dev/posts/using-op…

You can check out the blog here: damilola-oladele.dev

A week after migrating my blog to Netlify, the results are in. Out of 51 pages, 31 have now been indexed by Google. That’s a big jump from. Nothing about the content changed. The difference came from hosting on my own domain, a cleaner sitemap, and better crawl accessibility. This confirms what I suspected earlier: the problem wasn’t with my content, but rather with the hosting setup.

I AM IN TEARS! THE 1ST OPEN-SOURCE NIGERIAN LANGUAGE TEXT CLASSIFIER ON @pypi. Please try it out! I’ll spend the next week improving it and merging contributions. Catch any errors? Let me know so I can fix them. pypi.org/project/padie-…

@bigdevlarry For real😆🤣

olopa go first search your phone & pocket

Cool, but I’m worried about how secure this would be since email is one of the easiest things to get compromised.

It's SDC season baby!

Most technical writers build documentation around assumptions. They assume users need detailed API references, or will read every section in order. But assumptions often fail, and user behavior tells a different story. User research is the clearest way to uncover that behavior. In this post, I explain what user research is and how to conduct it for documentation: damilola-oladele.dev/posts/how-to-c…

@ShawnBasquiat …and it’s your duty to make sure they know and trust you.

People do business with those they know, like, and trust.

@ibukksss For real. It’s even more fascinating how they manage to do that every year.

iPad PR is so crazy because you think you absolutely need one until you get it 🤣🤣

@posi_olomo That’s interesting. What’s the RAM on your laptop, and what antivirus do you use? In my experience, some antivirus software can make a laptop very slow. I usually recommend sticking with Microsoft Defender, but keeping it updated.

@activus_d I don’t use chrome, I use Microsoft Edge.

Hate how every single laptop I’ve had can’t handle my workload and it’s literally just having 15 tabs open on my browser, Visual studio code and one other app opened. They’ll just start hanging. My goodness, like bro, I’m barely working.

hmmm...it's giving servitude

I recently migrated my blog from GitHub Pages to Netlify, and here’s why. My posts weren’t getting indexed by Google. Out of 51 URLs, only three were appearing in search results. At first, I tried manually indexing the site through Google Search Console, but crawling was painfully slow. Then I added a sitemap, hoping that would fix it. It didn’t. The real issue was that my site was hosted on a github. io domain. Since I technically don’t own the domain, Google had trouble fetching and verifying the sitemap. I tried manually submitting each URL, but GitHub Pages runs on shared servers with limited IPs. That led to Google hitting a crawl quota and pausing indexing altogether. Eventually, I bought my own domain, damilola-oladele.dev, and migrated the site to Netlify. Since the move, my site loads faster, Google accepted the sitemap, and I have some control over my setup. I also implemented redirects so every request to the old address now points to damilola-oladele.dev Lesson learned: if you’re serious about SEO and site visibility, don’t be afraid to spend a few bucks to get your own domain and host your blog on a platform that gives you flexibility and ownership. Next is to learn how to improve the site for AI.

@jaded_developer You will do this one se😀