Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour articles - 63 total
DevOps From Scratch: Entry #05
Chapters 6 and 7 of the Linux Foundation LFS101 course cover System Configuration from the Graphical...
How My "Illegal" Visit to Tech Show London Turned Into a Summer Internship Win
I officially became a "Tech Outlaw" today. 😂 Don't worry I didn't do anything malicious. I just...
Gemini Mechanic: Fixing Your Gadgets with AI
This is a submission for the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge What I Built with...
Know Your Rights, Find Your Support — Built for Brent
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Brent is one...
I Left My First Hackathon at 8 PM — And it Was a Massive Success!
Most hackathon stories start with "We stayed up for 36 hours and drank 10 Red Bulls." Mine is...
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project
You know that iconic DJ Khaled album, "Suffering from Success"? The one where he looks overwhelmed by...
DevOps From Scratch: Entry #04
When I first started my Linux journey, I had this image in my head of a dark room, green text...
Nike Was Right: The Only Coding Advice You Actually Need
I am pretty sure anyone who opens this would wonder what a shoe brand has got to do with coding? But...
DevOps From Scratch: Entry #03
After installing Ubuntu on my laptop mainly for this linux learning journey, I left it there for...
I Stopped Trying to Learn Every DevOps Tool: And Started Building a Platform Instead
The DevOps Hero Burnout is Real Let's be real for a second. being a student and juggling school work...
GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge: 'The Linux Compass'
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built I built The Linux...
The HIDDEN Gem in the Google AI Challenge💎
First of all, if you haven’t participated in the google AI challenge, please do so right now. Not for...
Touching GRASS: My Experience at the Stripe Developer Meetup
The "Alien" Leaves the Ship If you read my last post, you know my struggle. I’ve spent a...
The Introvert’s Guide to Networking: How I Stopped Faking It and Started Growing
The "Alien" Phase For a long time, I felt like an alien. I’m naturally reserved. I’m not...
Top Offshore Software Development Companies: Reviews & Rates 3/3 (Got the opportunity to interview a veteran CTO)
To wrap up our deep dive into global talent, I asked our Veteran CTO one final question: When the...
The 'Senior Developer' is now the new 'Entry Level'
I do think most of us can attest to the fact that, entry level roles are not 'entry' anymore, I do...
Top nearshore software development companies: 2/3 (Got the opportunity to interview a veteran CTO)
Following up on my interview with a veteran CTO, I wanted to dig into one of the most practical...
Top it staff augmentation companies: Got the opportunity to interview a veteran CTO
The Intro Story As a student aiming for a career in tech, I spend a lot of time looking at...
New You Portfolio challenge 🤖
This is a submission for the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI ...
DevOps From Scratch: Entry #02
Before anything, happy new year!!! We made it to 2026!🎇(survived trails and tribulations🥲) The...
DevOps From Scratch: Entry #01
Linux Foundation: The "Cockpit" of the Cloud I have used windows all my life, my very...
DevOps From Scratch: A Student’s Diary (Entry #00)
Why I'm stopping the "Tutorial Hell" and starting a journey to 2027 🚀 Hello, world! 🌍 I’m currently...
5 Terminal Commands That Saved Me Hours of Clicking
When I first started coding, I was terrified of the terminal. That blank black screen with the...
Is "Vibe Coding" Ruining My CS Degree?
It’s 11 PM on a Tuesday in late 2025. I have a Data Structures assignment due tomorrow. The task?...
The ONE Skill I'm Choosing Over LeetCode Grinding in 2025
It’s late 2025. and if your LinkedIn feed is anything like mine, it’s a chaotic mix of two...
The Broke Student’s Guide to the Cloud: How I Host Projects for $0
Let’s be real. The scariest part of computer science isn't reversing a binary tree on a...
My Ultimate VS Code Setup for 2025 (Extensions, Fonts, and Themes)
Let’s be real for a second: we judge other developers by their terminal setup. I used to be a...
Why I Stopped Watching Tutorials and Started Breaking Things😈💣💥
You know the feeling. 😩 You just finished a 4-hour "Python Zero to Hero" video. You followed every...
Stop Asking AI to Write Your Code. Ask It to Explain Like You’re 5.
Let’s be honest. I use AI tools daily. Most of us do 🤷♀️. But there is a massive...
PYTHON FUNCTIONS
INTRODUCTION A set of statements that returns the particular task is called a Python...