Abou Koné: writing

Over the past year, I’ve shipped features and entire applications using Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.

Part I (Cursor, Codex and Claude) I have been using AI coding tools for about a year now, my first experience was with Cline, and then when Cursor came out it ended up winning me over with the completely AI integrated ex…

Writing with Muse Mode ak Musa and how it can help you (write) too Where do I start?

Multimodal AI Agent You know that feeling when you’re the head of engineering, leading a team so small it could fit in a phone booth?

The Zoom Show Since the latest Tech Recession hit in 2022, we’ve all heard of the periodic layoffs happening for companies in an industry that we had come to believe was layoff-proof.

Running automated integration tests is a crucial element for any serious CI/CD pipeline and within our company, our QA uses Selenium for that purpose.

I have been working lately with junior front end developers, as well as mentoring aspiring developers and one of the questions that they ask me is how to become a better/senior developer.

Starting with iOS 10, Safari on mobile (iPhone and iPad) started allowing developers to autoplay videos inline provided the video you are trying to play meets certain conditions.

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library.

Going Mobile: Wrapping an existing web application in Cordova/Phonegap There are many choices to build mobile applications, from native to the growing popularity of hybrid development, with everything in between.

Disclaimer: This is an opinion based on my experience, observations and interactions in the developer ecosystem in West Africa, more specifically Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire.

Disclaimer: I don’t pretend to give scientific result based on accurate polling or any kind of scientific method (outside of observation).

10 Tips for Designing Mobile APIs – http://pulse.me/s/jVMoD

African tech startups raise $1 million in crowdfunding effort – http://pulse.me/s/jLEmh

Interview: The man behind Nigeria’s answer to the iPad – http://pulse.me/s/jyYBr

African YouTube use grows 90 per cent – http://pulse.me/s/jzrg1

Africa on the Rise – http://pulse.me/s/fYemS

Africa Gathering 2012 was held this year at the ICC Auditorium on the campus of Georgetown University and was hosted by the African Society of Georgetown. .

It’s back in DC this year for the 2013 edition and it’s an event you don’t want to miss if you are interested in keeping up with what’s hot and relevant about the emerging Africa; I am talking about Africa Gathering 2013.

As usual don’t forget to check out the podcast of the African Tech Weekly over at Coders4Africa Radio.

Here are your tidbits for this week.Enjoy!

So what’s new in African Tech News?

Welcome back to another edition!

On this week’s African Tech Weekly show we will be discussing the exciting new Coders4Africa social campaign aimed at training 30 African programmers from September to December 2012, following a ‘real life project training model’, 30 African coders will c…

The sister program to the African Tech News Tidbits is now live.

As some of you may already know, last week’s edition of the Coders4Africa Radio show was cancelled due to a quite ironic power outage at the studio in Maryland but everything is back on track so make sure to tune in this Sunday July 1st at 1:00PM Eastern,…

This week’s African tech news are again full of interesting tidbits.

Here are your African Tech News Tidbits for this week.

The first people using your product are an amazing breed – http://pulse.me/s/a8S0l

How are we all doing?

It’s been a month since the last iteration so there is a lot to go over.

From VC4Africa, an interesting look at the top 5 startup trends in Africa – http://pulse.me/s/9GHO5

http://business.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201205/87173.php

Africa developing its first supercomputer outside South Africa – http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/1AzBcz59CMw/

Here is what has been happening in the world of African Tech this week: An interview with Jason Njoku, founder of IrokoTV, known as the “netflix of Africa”.

A lot happening and since my schedule cleared up a bit, let’s do a quick round of what’s been happening in the world of AfricaTech.

In an interesting reflection, Dinfin Mulupi over at HowWeMadeItInAfrica brings up a worry from investors in Kenya that the emphasis on social impact technology is distracting entrepreneurs from building real tech businesses.

Back for another session of ATNT, and I got some good reads for you.

In a guest post at Venture Beat, David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree, which makes Hotspot Shield, a privacy shield for internet users around the world dicusses examples of entrepreneurs around the US that founded startup whose primary mission was effecti…

Here we are back again.

Memeburn just compiled a list of 30 African startups and it’s an inspiration to see the list of business models and technologies at play.

Arthur Zang is a 24 year old Cameroonian who just came up with the country’s first medical tablet, the CardioPad, which is aimed at helping diagnose heart patients.

Back at it, after taking a little break due to a busy work schedule, let’s see what’s been happening in African Tech: In Cameroon, a young entrepreneur just released the Cardiopad, a medical tablet designed to help with remote diagnosis of heart problems.

In a blog entry, developer Pascal Ehitie Aito from Nigeria shares some insight in the best ways not to create a successful startup.

Tech Event of note on the continent: eLearning Africa is the continent’s largest gathering of high-level policy makers, decision makers and practitioners from education,business and government.

It’s the middle of the week, I’ve been busy with life and wanted to post a few articles but never got time, so decided to start a new, hopefully weekly series of articles aggregating articles that I find interesting related to Africa and Tech.

Afriapps developer Andrew Mugoya is back at it again with a new book offering some designing help to app developers.

Will Mutua at Afrinnovator writes an interesting article on how to design websites for the African market and supports it with some facts on the ground.