Enoch Klu

Calling any and all Ghanaians to sign this petition. The NITA bill cripples the advancement of (national) tech innovation and must be dropped! ✊🇬🇭

Look, I genuinely think we are not taking this seriously enough. In fact, any Member of Parliament who blindly supports broad certification and licensing requirements across general private-sector ICT work without carefully considering the long-term consequences should understand the damage this could do to Ghana’s innovation future. You cannot simultaneously push STEM education, robotics competitions, coding programs, innovation hubs, and AI training for young people then later build broad gatekeeping structures around the same ecosystem those young people are supposed to grow into. Because after learning comes experimentation. That is how innovation actually develops. People learn by building, failing, testing, fixing problems, breaking things, trying again, and solving real-world problems not by existing only inside controlled classrooms and pilot sandboxes. Many of us entered tech long before certificates, titles, or formal structures. I started playing with computers at a very young age. By age 7, I could disassemble and assemble computers, install software, troubleshoot systems, and help businesses fix technical problems. Some companies literally waited for me to return from school before they could get systems running again. Sometimes even certified professionals could not solve problems this curious little boy experimenting with computers could solve. That freedom to experiment is what pushed many of us into technology. A lot of Ghanaian tech founders, self-taught developers, freelancers, and innovators have similar stories. Some started in bedrooms, cafés, school labs, or with broken computers and curiosity. That openness is part of how innovation ecosystems are built. Nobody is saying there should be no regulation. High-risk sectors like cybersecurity, finance, aviation, healthcare systems, and critical infrastructure absolutely justify stricter oversight and standards. But broad certification requirements across general private-sector ICT work in a fragile ecosystem already struggling with funding gaps, unreliable systems, infrastructure problems, and bureaucratic friction is a dangerous direction. The early software and startup ecosystems that shaped the modern world grew through experimentation, execution, rapid iteration, and relatively low barriers for builders not broad gatekeeping structures before people could participate. What many young builders fear is simple: That curiosity, experimentation, unconventional talent, and self-taught innovation are slowly being replaced with bureaucracy and gatekeeping. I repeat that concern is legitimate!! @TheDumbTechGuy @thenanaaba @samgeorgegh

The world or most of it stayed indoors for a very long time at one point.

@Felix1312953 @_andrewthecoder What has worked for you on Dice? Looking to get some tips, and I'd appreciate any insights you have

Companies aren't hiring that way anymore. Go get a contract gig and work with them on some project. If it's a good fit, they'll make you an offer. Dice.com provides a lot of good leads (and a lot of crappy ones too, just be patient). Couple things about contract work; yes, you can still get benefits (through a temp agency, and the benefits will be expensive), and stick to your guns about your contract rate. It should be at least 20% above what you'd target as an employee salary/rate. That's because of the cost of benefits and the short term of the contract. Don't let anyone talk you out of that. And you may end up preferring contract work. A lot of people do because the pay is excellent and it provides you a lot of flexibility for time off.

I have a hard time believing that I am just unhireable. But I have an even harder time believing that my 25 years of experience is somehow negated by the format of my resume. But, after over 2,000 applications, I am not sure what else to think. And, out of the dozens of emails (perhaps over 100) to hiring managers with inquiries about what might be happening, I have received ZERO response. I have done some reverse engineering of some popular ATS systems and found some interesting trends; things like translating words like "founder" and "freelancer" to "unemployed", as one example (though, admittedly, the end user of the ATS is responsible for such translations). So, now add to everything else, I am being punished for running successful businesses for over a decade. Kind of at the end of my rope here. I have to start thinking about what retirement looks like, and I am just plain NOT HIREABLE. Career change at this point doesn't seem likely. I have literally never done anything professionally other than write software (at least, not since college anyway). This is actually going to start affecting my way of life, my standard of living, not to mention the people that count on me to provide. Please don't take this as anything more than venting. I am not blaming anyone, and I am not looking for sympathy. I know a lot of you are experiencing a very similar situation!

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Apple accidentally left Claude.md files in today's Apple Support app update (v5.13)

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@Y85668750 @VoidsWork @brendonovich Typo. They mean Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)

@VoidsWork @brendonovich CRF?

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Why does JS not have match expressions? It'd be so cool to have. Hmm… 🤔

@ennycodes What about querying your default data storage and your computations takes 1.08 seconds? You might want to optimise those things instead of slapping Redis on top of it.

Without Redis. With Redis.

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@mannupaaji @delali

Why does every launch video these days look like this?

@delali I suppose.

@gotnoklu That's true. Although I am sure they thought it was the right idea at the time. Perhaps those shortcomings shaped newer frameworks like tanstsck start.

I feel (almost) every web developer stands behind this idea of building on the client only to reach for server components where necessary: this is similar to how we build things with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS and they work fine. I find this to be an easier and familiar mental model when developing web apps, which makes me more productive. Maybe it's just me. But I believe this is great DX.

@Sambhav_Gandhi This guy is taking "work smarter, not harder" to some pretty interesting levels.

bruh

Some of us were coding "sophisticated" websites with lagging 2GB RAM devices back in the day. Africa is truly a different place.