Thoughts.
Signals from the ground — notes on AI, community building, and strategy from Brandon T. Bande, written between talks and workshops across Southern Africa.
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No Data, No Problem
Zimbabwe's tech scene has blamed missing data for years. Here's how I stopped complaining and built with less: browser hand tracking and a Shona word corpus.
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Scraping 16,000 Jobs: ETL vs ELT and Lessons Learnt, Finale
To wrap up the series, I will be talking less about the hands-on tech stuff and reflecting on the lessons learnt. The basics matter. ETL vs ELT.
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Scraping 16,000 Jobs: Mapping Zimbabwe's Job Market, Part 2
How I used a local LLM, tool calling and Pydantic models to turn thousands of scraped Zimbabwean job posts into clean, structured data. Part 2 of the build.
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Scraping 16,000 Jobs: Mapping Zimbabwe's Job Market, Part 1
How I scraped thousands of Zimbabwean job listings with BeautifulSoup, Selenium and the WordPress API to track rising and dying careers. Part 1 of the build.
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Back Again
And you last heard from me 20 days ago (been a while). However, I am back again. I have a couple of articles stuck in draft mode that I could not wrap up...
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