Oladapo Adeola OMONAYAJO

Improving The Dugout: scouting, transfers, and borrowed ideas

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TheDugout has a lot of features “borrowed” from games I’ve enjoyed in the past. This borrowing has been done in the sense that you’d borrow a tractor from a neighbouring farmer and replace a faulty brake disc or a bad seat.

For instance, while TrophyManager allows you to see a players full attributes the moment you click on the player, and FootballManager limits what you can see based on the reach of your “scouting network”, TheDugout requires you to actually scout the player first and shows you estimates of the player’s ability based on the quality and ability of the scout you commissioned to generate a report on the player. The player exists, you know about them but you need to dispatch a scout to discover how good they are. Your understanding of how good they are is dependent on the quality of the scout you send.

The Dugout: A web-based football manager game

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I made a reference to my “main” side quest in my last post and I think I’m at a point where I’m comfortable enough to share what I’ve been working on for the past few months (years, to be honest).

Having played football manager games for the best part of the last 20 years, I got to a point where I felt I could improve on the current state of play by myself (even if I’d be the only one playing the game).

Onyx Wellness: AI-powered wellness app for Android

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Gotten tired of reading posts authored by AI for human consumption, so I thought I’d contribute an original.

I have enough self-awareness to admit that I use LLMs in multiple parts of my day now - even on vacation - but like that old guy in those gritty movies, I refuse to surrender everything that I had learned to do the hard way to AI. I’ve written in the past about how AI is possibly accelerating skill atrophy and that epistle - I was going to refer to it as a treatise but I then looked up its definition and changed my mind - written almost 8 months ago, hasn’t rang truer than it does today. So, I’m writing without AI 😁!

On: Skill atrophy due to over-reliance on AI

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Accountability, deskilling, and tacit knowledge

The second and third points in this post fully describe my current disposition to AI-assisted (read that as LLM-assisted) coding. While I’ve increasingly used it over the past 12 months, I’ve found myself getting even more wary of handing off coding tasks because of the seeming erosion of knowledge.

On: Fast Cars, Sandbagging and Software Engineering

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Formula 1 calendar runs from February to early December each year and at the end of February/early March, there are 3 days of pre-season testing for each of the 10 teams on the grid. Finally, the fans (and other teams) get to see what the teams have been working on over the winter break. Sometimes, the cars are wildly different from the previous season due to some changes in the racing regulations from the FIA and other times, the teams just get to improve on the previous year’s car.

On: Building Winning Engineering Teams

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Back in January, my partner and I took an impromptu trip to Mauritius in order to escape the European winter. On our almost 11 hour flight from Paris to Mauritius, I couldn’t help but wonder how many things had to go right everytime the flight was conducted for it to have been added as a regular route for Air France.

In the same manner, there are quite a number of things that need to work out in just the right way for engineering teams to function like conveyor belts delivering value to the the business like clock work.

User Onboarding Velocity

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Case study for Hygraph Studio performance and platform work.

On: Unrealistic work experience requirements

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Relevant experience is a nice-to-have — good developers pick up tools

This resonates with me so much. I got my current role without having written production ready Golang code in my 12 years of software engineering (save for some exploratory development in Golang because I was looking for a faster way to get some bulk processing done and PHP / Nodejs wasn’t getting me anywhere, and looking over the shoulder of folks like Agiri Abraham Jr. for a 6 month stint)

On: Coding interviews without an IDE

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Asking someone to code without an IDE during an interview is a waste of everyone’s time in my opinion.

Has there ever been a time in your organisation’s history when you needed a QA engineer (or any other engineer) to write code in Notepad to fix an issue or to rollout a feature?

A familiar interview scene — shared screen, no IDE

On: GenerativeAI and Guardrails

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

About a year ago, I expressed my consternation at the speed of “AI Development” after seeing someone make a video in English and use AI to make multiple cuts of the same video that showed him speaking a number of other languages like he was a native speaker.

My first thought was, “what’s to stop someone from using these tools to generate deep fakes with the aim of overthrowing governments or sowing seeds of discontent amongst a nation’s citizens”?

Noir Launcher: A minimalist launcher for Android

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I went on a social media cleanse recently (a bit more than that to be honest) and while in that state, I rediscovered my love for Flutter. I decided to explore the current state of the art (taking a break from writing Go and Typescript) and build something interesting.

I downloaded an Android launcher a couple of months back and I disliked the constant prompts to pay for features that I thought were simple, so I thought, why not build it yourself.

Archax Platform

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Case study for Archax regulated trading platform work.

Lazada Logistics

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Case study for Lazada Philippines logistics and operations systems.

How to set dynamic page titles in Angular 2/4

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Using Git Bash with PhpStorm

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Setting up Android SDK on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

How to create a Radial Gradient in Objective-C (iOS)

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Using regex to strip specific html tags using JavaScript

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Generating Amazon S3 file upload Policy in Node.js

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Creating Base64 Encoded String from an Image in Node.js

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

LawPavilion PRIME

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Case study for LawPavilion PRIME and related legal platforms.

Configuring Apache Virtual Hosts on OSX Yosemite

Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Installing Sass and Using SCSS Watcher for PhpStorm on OSX Yosemite

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

How to install MySQL and add it as a service on OSX Yosemite

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Backup Stored Procedures only on MySQL

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

How to determine what programs are bound to what ports on Windows

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Setting Up Email with Zoho, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean

Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

How to Strip HTML tags in JavaScript

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A bit about me

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Oladapo Omonayajo, an accomplished Staff-level Software Engineer and Architect with over 15 years of full-stack engineering experience scaling distributed systems, multi-tier enterprise platforms and AI-native workflows.

I’ve got a proven track record of designing high-throughput backend services, managing multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and leading high-performing cross-functional teams across scale-ups, multiple industries and government-scale initiatives.

Contact

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000