March 23
He who would be referred to as The Lord of Ghosts | Everyone's neighborhood ghost was born
March
Wrote my first program with Windows Batch Scripting
April
Compiled Hello World in C++ using Visual Studio 2010
July
Compiled Hello World in C# using Visual Studio 2013
August
Started Web Development with HTML & CSS thanks to TheNewBoston
November
Launched my first PC game with C# & Unity3D game engine
February
The "Blender Artists" community was born & I made my first 3D model with Blender3D
April
Started venturing into Cyber Security & Penetration Testing
June
Installed & used the Linux Operating System for the first time (Kali)
July - November
Language Learning Rush (Jumping from one programming language to another), grabbed Python, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, Brainfuck, C, JQuery, Java, Swift, and others I can't recall
August
Created my first blog, which was named Greyhatcommunity, and a telegram channel that grew over 10K members
August
Created my first programming language (GhostScript), which I built upon Ruby with the simplicity of Python aimed at programming beginners
September
Became a founding father of the SoloLearn Nigeria community (SLN)
December
Discovered & reported my first security vulnerability to Google. It was a flaw that allowed the bypassing of 2-factor authentication of Google products on android
January
Went into the world of Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
February
Built PUMMP3r 1.0 with Python, which was a Cryptocurrency P&D bot
April
Released the first version of HashDB (formally JnDB), which is a lightweight NoSQL database management system built with Python
April
First time I made money with programming. Sold PUMMP3r 2.0 for 0.1 BTC ~ $800
May - December
Learning about cryptocurrency trading, forex and built Niggrix ~ an automated cryptocurrency trading robot, trading backtesting algorithms, and EA systems with MQL4
June - July
Built and released a ransomware (GhostCrypt) & graduated from High School at 16
November
Trained my first machine learning model with Azure ML Studio
December
Discovered a security vulnerability in PayStack & Flutterwave, which allowed an attacker to intercept and tamper transactions making the payment processor systems read a successful transaction when nothing occurred
March
Passion for Artificial Intelligence started through learning about Deep Learning & DSN IndabaX Program
May
Got my first programming gig, it was to develop a website for a client, got paid ₦40,000
July
Joined DSN through their Python & Machine Learning Class for pre-uni students
June
Attended my first tech hackathon
September
Gave a presentation at POIC 2019 to over 5000 attendees (Largest audience ever)
September
Became a DSC Unilag Core team member for the 2019/2020 session
October
Built a web app with Django and Tensorflow, which helps medical practitioners diagnose patients faster and quicker.
November
Qualified to attend the 2019 DSN Data Science Bootcamp
February
Was opportuned to attend the launch of the Google Hub in Lagos, Nigeria
February
Attended the first-ever Open Source Festival in Africa
March
Was a participant at the maiden FSI hackathon, GLH hackathon, and CCHub Data hackathon
April
Became the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of CleanPick Waste Management Startup
April
Wrote my first technical article on my Hashnode blog
May
Launched v2 of animeX with even better features
June
Made my first seven digits in NGN and got myself a Macbook Pro, Samsung A71, and many others
July
Gave a talk at Flaskcon, which is an international conference for the Flask community
August
Created a miniature cryptocurrency remittance hitting $1,000 in volume in the first month
August
Joined the 2020/2021 DSC Unilag Core Team
August
Created a telegram bot for monitoring developer job listings and got 900+ users after its launch https://t.me/devjobhub
September
Built AnimeHive, which is a telegram bot for downloading anime right from telegram, also provides recommendations and info about an anime https://t.me/animehive_bot
September
Become a core team member of the technicalities team at OtakuTV, which is the biggest anime community in Nigeria
October
Helped the team at Telos Blockchain setup their airdrop system, which managed over 35K users (currently the biggest app I maintain)
October
Became an Ambassador at Auth0, which is a company dedicated to web security and authentication (I'm a digital superman 😎🤩)
November
Gave a talk at the first-ever Cybersecurity themed DSC event in Africa
November
Became an Ambassador at PettySave, which is a fintech helping Nigerians save and Invest money
November
Signed my first paid technical writing contract with a USA based company - Fauna
December
Gave a talk on Technical Writing at DSC Federal Polytechnic Bida. You can find slides and Youtube recordings here
December
Released my 2020 year in review
February
Was featured in Developer Chronicles podcast
February
Was featured in GEN-TECH podcast
February
Was featured on Fauna Community Spotlight for open-source contributions made to the company
March
Became the Open Source Africa (OSCA) Chapter Lead for Yaba
March
Got my article featured and published on Git Tower
April
Was awarded the "Ambassador of the Month" award at Auth0
June
Became a LogRocket author
July
Won the SoLo Funds Hackathon hosted by Unicorn
August
Won the BoardRoom One Hackathon hosted by Unicorn
September
MongoDB merged my PR into their Golang driver repository
September
Became a DSC Unilag Core team member for the 2021/2022 session
October
Received swags from MongoDB for my community contributions
November
Got my first ever full-time role at a US-based fintech + blockchain company
November
Gave a talk at DevFest Abeokuta, first time travelling by train too
December
Released my 2021 year in review
February
Won the Best use of payments product award category at the Stitchathon 2022 Hackathon
March
Became a full-time Technical Writer at Unstoppable Domains - a web3 company that's building decentralized digital identities for the world with NFT domains
March
Purchased my first NFT domain from Unstoppable Domains
March
Gave a talk at the biggest tech conference in Africa - Open Source Festival 2022
April
Minted my first NFT - Los Muertos World
April
Sold my first NFT for 0.5 ETH ~ $1,647
May
June
First time flying in a plane, also toured the city of Abuja
July
I got interviewed by the Grow Into Tech team
August
Got promoted at Unstoppable Domains 6 months after I joined the company
September
First time going on a road trip, also toured the city of Asaba
October
Spoke at 5 events on Open Source and Hacktoberfest
October
Created an investment syndicate with an annual capital of $388.8K
November
First time flying out of Nigeria, also toured the city of Nairobi, Kenya
November
Got my first car ~ Hyundai Santa Fe
December
Got another promotion at Unstoppable Domains 9 months after I joined the company
December
Planned and organized Garri Hangout 1.0 in less than a week, got over 300 people to attend, and raised ₦642,000 in sponsorships
December
Released my 2022 year in review
January
My team got laid off from Unstoppable Domains
February
Got another car ~ Ford Edge Limited
March
Made significant progress to my 2018 project (Niggrix) and started building an MVP
March
Joined the Stack Shift dWeb fellowship (Zeta) cohort
April
Became a full-time Technical Writer at Status/Waku - a web3 project that's uncompromising web3 communication at scale
May
Launched the MVP of my research project (Trade Maven) on a live portfolio
June
Spoke at the biggest tech event in Ilorin ~ Career Fest to over 2000 attendees
July
Raised over $50,000 in pledges for a project idea I shared with friends in less than 24 hours
August
Took time to visit and tour the city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Kigali, Rwanda
September
Concluded my raising round at $90,000 for a project (Trade Maven) I originally targeted to raise $30,000.
October
Got yet another car ~ Ford Edge Limited. Had to write off the previous because of an accident
November
Took time to visit and tour the cities of Enugu and Nsukka, spoke at Polygon Dev Conference too
December
Designed a modern-day chess with an 11x11 grid and modified game rules named Operation BattleGrid: Strategic Frontiers
December
Built a peer-to-peer, private, permissionless, and decentralized communication protocol called GhostNet
December
Released my 2023 year in review