Backend & Frontend are both really hard.

Frontend is more than HTML & CSS.
Backend is way more than CRUD.

You should be afraid of anyone that makes any of these look trivial & give them your large scale app to maintain ☺️ I think we have come full circle though.

In the early days, people used to diss frontend a lot. A sprinkle of JQuery, frameworks didn't really exist in abundance, no SPAs, a lot of things were pushed to the backend.

Now, frontend is crazy. Javascript works on the backend.

I have a mad affinity for dsyfunctional things, people, and places.

Once you try to put me in a perfect & shaprapra position & place, I revolt.

I want to be involved in the process of moving from dysfunctional to perfect, then jump to another dysfunctional “thing” 😂😂 Maybe this is why I’ll be in Nigeria for a long time. Could have Japa’d since 2016, but I can’t relate when I see people so excited to leave. I’m very happy for them but I feel like I’ll just be unfulfilled & bored.

I like enjoyment & things working well oh but I like problems😂

Reliability > Popularity...🔥🚀😍

Ismail & I paired today as always. Needed to update an internal tool feature to deal with tons of images (full render & thumbnails).

We use @cloudinary & pay for it. Majority of the images were slightly > 1MB (already loaded from Cloudinary) Okay, let's optimize this thing, Chief. Now, we looked at Chrome's Network tab to see the size transferred over the wire. It was 1.6MB. 🤯

Ismail went ahead to add the shocker: `w_150,h_150,c_thumb` and slapped `f_auto,q_auto` to the image URLs.

Now, let's check again!

The more you realize that what others are castigated for now is what will become normal & celebrated tomorrow, the more unshaken you'll be about your beliefs

In fact, current trends borrow from the old, slap shoe polish on it & call it new.

Religion -> Programming -> Culture 😅 I think about Covid19 & how people made so much fun of it, which made others go with the belief that it was made up (not real)

The "others" that went with the belief without grounding themselves in research and having a strong personal faith suffered. Losses of friends & family!

Tons of business & personal challenges in this pandemic year. But, I'm thankful for Eden:

- Zero layoffs
- Stayed online
- Head count > 40 (60% women, 40% men)
- Pulse check revealed:
- 100% are happy
- 96% have a friend at work
- 96% will recommend people to work here Nad, Silm & I were discussing and I made a joke.. "I hope people are not lying oh 😂"..But with all the crazy things that happened this year, we reiterated amongst ourselves that Eden will be 100% in building a great culture.

2020 threw many curve balls at us..In fact at the..

Woke up thinking about infrastructure companies (companies that power other companies); API, core soft., logistics, kitchens etc

AWS, a critical component of Amazon powers more than half of internet companies globally.

Zoom’s market valuation exploded to over $100B this year. ..and Amazon was a major source of expansion. When the pandemic hit..Zoom started spinning up thousands of servers overnight, up to about 6,000 servers on AWS night on night.

Clubhouse, the new rave heavily depends on AWS. As it is ramping up on thousands of users day on day...

The Nigerian startup ecosystem in 2021 will be crazy.

- Younger founders creating companies
- More fintech platforms will emerge
- Funding for pre-seed & seed will massively change (e.g $1M for pre-seed)
- More professionals will earn more because of these startups - More foreigners will start working full-time at Nigerian startups. I’ve seen Paystack & Flutterwave do this well this year.
- Now, it’s mostly tackling Nigerian problems & scaling to the rest of Africa. I see 2021 having new Nigerian startups spring up to build global first.

Started looking at life differently 3 years ago.

This is it: Every structure, institution, rules, beliefs, career progress hullabaloo, hierarchy & stints of "This is how to do it to win at life" are largely man-made.

It means they can be toppled, modified & destroyed. Every single thing can be turned upside down to favor or hinder anybody.

Now, when I hit a roadblock & the response is "You're not qualified to this" or "this is how it's been done". I tell myself that I'll destroy existing rules & create new ones for others to follow. 😅

CEO to shareholders and team members every month.

The apostles were high energy, relentless, confident and bullish co-founders that got seed funding from the Holy Spirit after Jesus mentored them!

..and they commanded high growth in their startup ministries. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://twitter.com/OreEni_ibukun/status/1227029065451868160

Paul is one apostle I like to call the coconut head founder.

Brave. Confident. Resourceful. Fire Brand. Technical. Lean advocate. He always wrote letters (from anywhere in the world) to believers that capitalized on Faith, Hope and Love.

Once, he left to establish another..

Day 25: In one of the previous tips of #25DaysOfMediaMagic, I mentioned how you can add overlays on top of images and videos.

Today, we'll celebrate #Christmas by applying multiple image transformations and advanced facial attributes detection to images to christmas-ify them!😁 The dynamic image manipulation URL below adds the Santa hat exactly above the auto detected eyes while rotating the hat to perfectly match her face. The hat is dynamically resized and padded in order to fit well as an actual hat

res.cloudinary.com/cloudinary/ima… #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Day 24: What if you are tasked with building an interactive UI that can display business products to customers in a day or less? 🤔

Similar type of UI obtainable in e-commerce/shopify-like stores. How would you go about it? #25DaysOfMediaMagic Well,...one of the options is to take advantage of @cloudinary's Product Gallery widget.

The Product Gallery requires only pure JavaScript to integrate, is easy to use within any web development framework, & eliminates the need to develop an in-house interactive media gallery.

Day 23: I discovered that lots of folks think only developers can use the media tricks I have mentioned since Day 1.

That’s a false narrative.

No, you don’t have to know code, all your team members can manage digital assets via the dashboard/DAM solution #25DaysOfMediaMagic That's my dashboard. I do a lot of these tricks no-programmatically from the dashboard. The Media Library provides you access to all your digital assets and is the main touchpoint into the @cloudinary DAM solution.

#25DaysOfMediaMagic

Day 22: Missed this yesterday, but no fears. We will cover it today and still cover Day 23. #25DaysOfMediaMagic

The year is 2019, and it's the season for Hanukkah. There are photos of dreidels for Hanukkah with a color combination of blue, red and dark green. 😍 I want to change a part of these dreidel colors to something else. I want to theme it with a vibrant @ouredenlife color. How?

Easy stuff. There's a transformation parameter @cloudinary provides that allows you switch certain colors amongst a variety of colors #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Day 21: I'll show you how to turn your pictures into old paragraphs. 🔥🚀

But most importantly, the technique I'll use here can be applied to doing lots of crazy things with overlaying images.

This is what the finished product will look like 😁 #25DaysOfMediaMagic 1. Upload both the baby picture and the torn old looking paper photo to @cloudinary #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Day 20: I'll show you how to add custom engravings to items like devices, pans, and really any item that can have one.

@cloudinary makes this a walk in the park. Let's dig in! #25DaysOfMediaMagic 🔥🚀 @cloudinary Let's engrave something on this watch.

First: Add a text that aligns properly with the code on the right image #25DaysOfMediaMagic

Day 19: Omitted this yesterday so I'll do it today. I'll quickly show you how to automatically flip videos.

All you need to do is set the `angle` parameter on the video. To vertically flip it, set `angle` parameter to `vflip`.

To horizontally flip it, set `angle` to `hflip` Example:

This is a vertical flip: res.cloudinary.com/demo/video/upl…

Day 18: Let me show you how to make a video preview clip with a couple lines of code 😁🥰😇 #25DaysOfMediaMagic

And Oh, there's the URL & #NoCodeApproach Let me outline the steps:

1. Upload a video to @cloudinary
2. Set your total duration for the preview video you want to create.
3. Layer on additional copies of the video with the corresponding beginning/end of each clip
4. Set the desired dimensions of the preview video

Day 17: People talk about responsive design a lot but often leave out responsive images. One image for all screen resolutions and different devices is never & will never be enough.

Devices & screen resolutions keep increasing and it's hard to keep up #25DaysOfMediaMagic Managing, manipulating and delivering images, is one of the main challenges of breakpoints for responsive design that web developers face.

Imagine having to manually create many versions of an image to fit the breakpoints for different screen sizes & resolutions...

Day 16: I'll show you how you can watermark your images and videos.

With @cloudinary, you can add a watermark to images and videos using transformations.

Follow me...#25DaysOfMediaMagic 🔥🚀 @cloudinary Upload the image you want to use as the "watermark". Ensure that this image already exists on @cloudinary.

Now, add your watermark as an overlay on top of the image you want to brand by setting the overlay parameter (l in URLs) as your watermark image's public ID.....

Day 15: Adopt Adaptive Bitrate Streaming to automate adjustment of video quality in real time #25DaysOfMediaMagic Cloudinary’s Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABS) capability adjusts video quality in real time to deliver the best-possible quality for the current viewing device and network connection.

- You can eliminate buffering time
- You can save bandwidth by displaying a lower-resolution..

Day 14: let’s talk about delivering media assets at the desired size to your users.

Most developers resize images on the client using CSS. But this is bad.

It’s bad because you have allowed the user to download the original heavy image with their data. #25DaysOfMediaMagic 😎😇 You don’t have to do that. With @cloudinary you can deliver the asset with the right dimensions as a very light asset to the user.

Just use @cloudinary <img> or <video> tags in HTML with the desired dimensions and embed in your site like so:

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