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With the new year approaching, I wanted to share an opportunity to make this holiday truly special for a fellow dev! We're coming together to support Naol Adinew, an incredibly passionate and talented developer who's been making the most out of his 2GB RAM PC. Imagine how much more he could achieve with a proper upgrade! We're crowdfunding to help him get the tools he deserves, and if each of us contributes just 100 ETB, we can make it happen. Think of it as a holiday gift from one dev to another. Naol has so much potential, and this small gesture will make a big difference in helping him reach new heights.

Naol Adinew CBE: 1000640374032 Telebirr: 0922759640

Let’s spread the word and make this holiday memorable by supporting a dev with so much drive and passion. Every bit counts! Let's come together and make this a fun one! @selfmadecoder

hello devs hope you guys doin well .. For those who aren’t Ethiopian, our new year starts on September 11, and it will be 2017 for us😊.

I’ve been struggling to buy a PC for a long time, and it’s been really demotivating. I used to use my friends' PCs in boarding school and go to internet cafés to get things done after making money doing students assignment back in 9th grade.

I understand how exciting it can be to finally get a chance you've been hoping for, so I’m reaching out to all of you kind-hearted devs to help make one dev’s 2017 amazing by helping him get a new PC. The plan is to crowdfund for this, and it will be anonymous. I’d love for @RuthfulHearts to help organize this. If we each contribute 100 ETB, we can make a big difference. We should all come together to start 2017 with generosity and support our community. I haven’t met this person in person or even know his full name 😁, but I’ve seen his impressive projects and community contributions. He does mind blowing work with just 2GB of RAM PC —it's truly amazing and inspiring! Please share this with everyone, and let’s make this happen. I hope @RuthfulHearts can host the fundraising to keep things accountable and reliable. Thanks! To all devs @CodeNight and all around the world @selfmadecoder

Just made a home screen shortcut on Mom and Dad’s phone for the Wi-Fi settings so they can manage users and change the password without calling me every time 😂. I’m literally making shortcuts for every important page so they can find stuff super easy ⚡️🔥 @selfmadecoder

"An idiot admires complexity a genius admires simplicity"

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Honojs is the simplest presise and easy to understand doc I've ever seen so far

If I build an IRL (real-life but online, kind of a dual game), would you be interested in playing it? I'm considering building one. @selfmadecoder

#current_thaught Honestly, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. It feels like there’s an endless ocean of stuff out there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes, I get hit with impostor syndrome and doubt my skills, which can be pretty frustrating. It’s not that you shouldn’t celebrate your wins, but sometimes too much celebration can make our egos a bit too big. I’ve noticed that impostor syndrome actually pushes me to learn more—kind of like a programmer’s instinct. It’s actually pretty cool. The real deal is that I don’t want to get stuck or stop learning. I'm becoming addicted to the dopamine rush I get from learning new things, which is often triggered by impostor syndrome, stress, and burnout. @selfmadecoder

check this comment for the images 😂 .. please try not to laugh 😂🤦‍♂️🫵 @selfmadecoder

I was trying to delete a channel so I could join another dev's channel, and I randomly stumbled across this old one I made back in 11th grade, and guess what? It was for an app I tried to make…

CRINGE ALERT‼️ The app was called TrueLove 😂🙆‍♂️🤦‍♂️. Pretty sure I named it after some movie (no clue which one tho).

Anyway, I didn’t actually build the app from scratch. I found some open-source PHP & MySQL thing, messed around with it, used one of those website-to-mobile-app tools to generate an APK, and hosted the backend on cPanel using one of my client’s hosting accounts (they had no idea btw😁). The channel was basically a ‘how to’ guide because the app’s user experience was seriously terrible. Should I share some pics for the laughs? 😂🙈 @selfmadecoder

i was trying to find a channel to delete and actually stumbled upon old channel ( created when i was in 11th grade ) and guess what it was a channel i created for my app ... the cringe starts here .. the app was called TrueLove 😂🙆‍♂️🤦‍♂️ .. i think i named it after the indian movie BangBang ( its actually one of the 5 best indian movies tho its a copy of night and day movie ) any way i didnt build the app .. i just found out an opensource php&mysql app and i twisted with my stuff and finally since i used website to mobile app solution to generate apk file and finally hosted the backend on cpanel on one of myClients hosting ( they didnt know btw 😁) .. so the channel was about kinda how to use stuff since a lot of peps had a

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Be me .... joining every dev channel I can find on Telegram and ditching the non-dev ones... now I’m running out of channels to delete 😁 ... @selfmadecoder

as @yohan_nes always says .. Remote or Die 😂✊💪 @selfmadecoder

something acheived internally 👀 ... prisma kind of DSL experience for schema typing with drizzle schema api generation.. it is build on top of the prisma DDMF - Datamodel Meta Format it is just Abstract syntax tree for your schema where they do all the lexxing and parsing stuff internally ...but this help u do almost a kind of custimation since i will provide a single source of truth config file and yeah it generate drizzle client right away and currenly i have finished the postgres adapter , left off with sqlite , mysql , cockroachdb and much more since i will b pushing it github soon after polishing the monorepo of it ... so stay tuned ..... hold there we also called it Drizzma - and will be publishing to npm registry after we are done with the adapters also :)

#FounderMode Founder mode is finally out 🔥🔥! Time to hit up the torrents 'cause your boy ain't got Netflix subscription 😁 @selfmadecoder

If you’re thinking of using Cursor + Claude or any AI tool for more than a simple side project—good luck! I’m not doing it again.

Sure, it works well for small projects, but when it comes to anything more complicated, it becomes a serious headache. The structure of the code usually ends up messy, and when problems pop up, it’s hard to fix because you have no idea how they even happened. When you try to add new features, it’s like trying to fix a tangled rope—everything gets messed up. And when you look at the code, you’ll see different pieces jammed together in one place, making it tough to refactor or clean up the code without causing more problems. My thought ? Handle the logic yourself—design the system, structure the code, and do the basic work. Only use AI for debugging when you really need it. We’re not yet at a point where AI can build a complete product with just one click. Experienced devs might manage, but if you’re a beginner or intermediate, you might not understand the code the AI generates, which can be risky. Just my two cents!— Peace✌️ @selfmadecoder

I usually prefer using NativeWind for styling my React Native app, but sometimes it doesn't render the styles correctly. In these cases, I have to clear the cache or storage of both the Expo Go app and the project itself, and then it starts working again. I don't like using inline styles or styled components, but this situation is frustrating. I guess using UI component libraries like Tamagui might be better in this case, though I'd still have to deal with styling. Alternatively, we could use the beta Expo DOM, which allows you to use shadcn in your mobile apps. Which option do you think is better from your experience ? selfmadecoder