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Additional Advice for Avoiding Costly Mistakes During Home Construction

Kakande Alex has an interesting post today on his substack channel Tips for Avoiding Costly Mistakes During Construction which I felt was very high level and not providing real strategies and tactics for getting through the construction process. The first aspect of construction for a home to understand is that it is a process of […]

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Automating the Deployment and Scheduled Execution of an R script on a VPS using Laravel Forge

I love data, its in my blood, I love analysing, cleaning it and preparing it for others to use, still have to get to the last mile to displaying and visualizing it but that is a story for another day 2024 for me is the year of “automation”, for everything that I do. I have […]

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How Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) can Engage, Develop and Support the Development of LocalTechnology Community from 2013

This resurfaced as a discussion on challenges with the URA Portal performance, so I dug back into my archives and found the concept note for this almost a decade ago – bringing it back into the open

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PyCon 2023 Conference – Behind the Keynote

On Friday 22 September, 2023, I was honored to deliver the Day 2 opening keynote at the first Python Language Uganda Conference which I thoroughly enjoyed and had a great time with the attendees When I was requested to keynote about a month ago, I said yes first which is the way I operate, and […]

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Deploying a Tighten Jigsaw static site to a VPS using Laravel Forge

I have ran into an interesting challenge for a documentation site that I am working on. The code repository is private on GitHub until it is ready to be made public, however needs to be be deployed publicly Initially I started working with Jekyll deployment proved to be a challenge through GitHub pages and Netlify […]

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