FridayOut Newsletter#19 😎: Blue Sea

Hey friend!!

We had a huge and successful last week as a club 🥰. Our first Design SCC Technical Meetup was a good head-start and the club is starting to gather some interest in and outside the state. I hope you had a good week. Let’s goooooooo.

THE WEEK GIST IN REVIEW

Elon is putting Twitter in Soup 😣

Just like you must have heard, Twitter is suing Elon Musk for refusing to agree to the contract to buy the giant media app.
There is not much news there except that this is not very good for the Ad income of Twitter. Adage claims this unrest would negatively affect Ad sales on the platform as Advertisers no longer know what they are paying for thus holding their money back.

Is Facebook copying Twitter now?

Facebook is adding another feature…news feed.
Unlike the old feed you’re familiar with, this one would only contain posts from your friends in chronological order (I’m one of those who wanted this feature 🤣). People keep asking for this but social media experts have kept preaching the feature will be a disaster considering the number of friends an average user has - there will be so much in the feed and at too much frequency it will be a waste.

Congratulations 😁 Nigeria’s House of Assembly passes the Nigeria Startup Bill

Looks like the God of Startups has finally shone his light on us. We are only waiting the Presidency’s assent for it to become law.

STUFF THAT ARE WORTH YOUR READ

Cassidoo Talk on functional programming at Hey Meetup, UK
Functional languages are rated as the most loved programming language according to Stack overflow Survey, 2021. Cassidoo gave a good introduction to functional programming in this video on demand at Hey, UK.

How we learned to, and build a website in 1997
We had a way to learn to build websites, and few options to build them, come look at it 😁.

What the hell is character encoding about?
Have you ever wondered how exactly a computer interprets letters like A, B, C… or Chinese characters like 吃, or even some emojis like 😆 and 🤪?
Well, on your HTML tags if you’ve seen the charset attribute, you too have been encoding chars.

Encoding, Encryption and Hashing do not mean the same thing
Translating data from one format to another with an open mechanism so that parties involved can better understand them is encoding. While Hashing is not reversible, Encoding and Encryption are. 😂 It’s amazing.
Be intrigued with one of the best articles on the definition and difference of Hashing, Encoding and Encryption written by the King of security themselves, Auth0.

CLUB’S UPDATE

OMG last week was a blast. I am saying a big welcome to our new members. This is the section where you get updates regarding the club.

• We would announce a team of 8 BODs (Board of Directors)
  Pending the announcement, if you feel you would be a great fit as a director of this amazing club, please throw us a proposal. We would love to see it.

• The Engineering SCC are having their Technical meetup
  We agreed on having it over a Twitter space last Saturday. It is coming up between 4PM - 4:50PM. Please no Africa time because Man. city vs Liverpool you don’t want to miss 😋.
  
  Set a reminder

SPONSORS

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SHOUTOUT TO OUR BACKERS

This club and all her activities this month are backed by Jason Palmer and Mark Mayor

Catch you next week!
Kelvinsekx

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