toluwalemi.com // est. 2020 ⏳
I bid you greet! I'm Toluwalemi 👨🏾💻
I like to build backend systems and learn random things on the internet. Video editing today, Klingon tomorrow, and plumbing some other day.
I currently work as a Software Engineer building backend systems and AI tools.
Outside the corporate world, I spend my free time lazily reading fiction, playing eFootball and Fortnite, binge-watching TV shows, or cruising across my keyboard at 75 WPM.
Blog 📝
Articles and notes on software engineering, backend systems, and learning in public.
Reading List 🤓📖
Books I’m currently reading and a running archive of titles by year.
Projects 👾🕹️
A curated list of GitHub projects, experiments, and technical builds.
Recent posts
The 5 Best Django Books for Beginners
A practical backend engineering reading guide: the best Django books for beginners, ordered to help you learn Django and build production-ready web applications.
Deploy your Hugo website using Netlify
Learn how to deploy a Hugo blog on Netlify so your software engineering articles can be indexed, discovered, and reliably served to readers.
How to setup your blog in 30 minutes using Hugo
Step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a Hugo blog in 30 minutes, from installation to theme setup and publishing your first technical article.
The Journey: Getting Started
Toluwalemi shares his software engineering journey, lessons from starting and restarting, and why this backend engineering blog was launched with Hugo.