Life of a Self Taught Programmer and Founder in Nigeria

I came here to rant, though the title may sound like a blog of "a day in the life of a dev at meta", but this is real life. No kombucha, no $4K standing desk, no ping pong table in the hallway. This is Nigeria. Power just blinked twice. I held my head in utter disbelief, all I did was try to start my development server, wait don't just stop reading yet, this isn't some technical blog so any technical thing I say, I'll make it crystal clear in layman terms. Development server is where I run the website I'm building locally, to test it to get a visual feedback before hosting it on the cloud. Imagine where you're trying to test something before hitting send, is taking 20 minutes to load, a sane machine is supposed to be using less than 10 seconds to do this I'm here typing on two cents directly, my local host is still loading. I am the life blood of my product, look I'm not outsourcing this idea, I'm gonna Mark Zuckerberg this product. I'm not hiring no intern to build my product. The design, the management, the code, all me brick by brick. I'm running backend (logic behind what the app does), containerization (makes sure our app is light weight and works across all machines), design (use of design tools like figma to actually design things).. other boring stuff you probably wouldn't care about. I’m pushing Figma frames till my eyes blur, designing entire dashboards. My Laptop is dying, it's RAM is crying. I'm debugging logic and debugging my own sanity.My fellow devs can sympathize with me that in all of this, some how they still need 6 years of experience in a language invented 4 years ago in the job market. We're thinking of how to outsource the next charge, and someone out there is shouting programmers would be obsolete... I write this with utter disdain in my heart...All this while "Jara" by Khaid is screaming in stereo directly into my skull.Not for vibes, for survival.Music is the only thing drowning out the sound of my laptop fan wheezing like it’s got asthma.But somehow, somehow, we still show up.We still run the commands.We still fix the bugs.We still build. Because in all this chaos, I know something for sure: One day, it’ll work.One day, I’ll hit npm run dev, and it’ll load in 5 seconds.One day, I’ll be the one writing “A Day in the Life of a Dev at Meta”,…except it’ll be my company, my team, and we’ll hire our people. Till then? I’m here.Still building.Still Learning.Still blessed.

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