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I'm @drogo, a software engineer, who dabbles in the secrets of writing.

This site is where I publish blogs and articles. The section that's most updated most often is atoms, small multimedia particles reminiscent of a Twitter feed. I update my now page monthly according to what I'm working on and thinking about. I publish a newsletter as often as I can.

Once in a while, I write longer form articles on technical and non technical subjects.

  • Sell Your Self
    Mar 18, 2025

    I used to believe that good work speaks for itself. That if I just focused on building great things, recognition would follow. But i was wrong.

  • Celebrating Codenight's Impact
    Feb 25, 2025

    When Codenight started, it was just late night code sessions among friends. Now, it’s a movement of 9,000 developers shaping Ethiopia’s tech scene. Standing before 300 developers at Developer Meetup V3, I realized this isn’t just about code. It’s about building something bigger.

  • The Unfiltered Self
    Jan 2, 2025

    I used to think writing was just a tool, something meant to be structured, polished, and purposeful. But then I saw a man in a coffee shop, furiously filling page after page in a worn notebook. No structure, no audience just raw, unfiltered thoughts.

I publish a newsletter about the Codenight community on Substack:

  • Codenight Weekly 042
    Jan 8, 2026

    This week, the Codenight community delivered serious engineering, we saw enterprise-grade tools like Odit.et hit the Stark platform, the community discussed the right way to learn UI/UX fundamentals

  • Codenight Weekly: 041
    Dec 22, 2025

    Impressive launches like Totals and Nevr Zero-API framework demonstrated the value of solving hard problems. Dive into the digest for details on the Chapa CTO interview and the latest projects.

  • Codenight Weekly 040
    Dec 16, 2025

    Dive into this week’s digest for the full breakdown, check the patch notes for the security alerts, events and jump into the projects made with the community.

I put short stream of consciousness thoughts into tiny posts called fragments: