Approach
Build. Reflect. Build again.
How I build software and grow engineers at EkoHacks, practised daily and taught in workshops.
The Practice
Learn
- Freirean pedagogy
- Learning by dialogue.
- Compassionate coaching
- At their own pace.
Code
- Nullable infrastructure
- No mocks anywhere.
- XP and pairing
- Pairs by default.
Work
- Keyboard only
- Everyone in Vim.
- Workflows and CLI
- Built into our CLI.
The Dojo
Developers in our open Nigeria community build production software test first and in pairs, reflect, and build again, the cycle Freire called praxis.
The developer metrics platform came out of two years of dojo sprints, and the thinking behind the pedagogy is in the writing.
- Founded
- 2025
- Community
- Nigeria
- Method
- TDD
- Reviews
- Daily
- Mouse
- None
- Workshops
- In person
EkoLite
Learners study and change code that runs in production. EkoLite, our open source real time framework, is built test first without mocks and powers EkoGenome.
Workshops
We take the dojo's practice to engineering teams in person, on their own code and with the same ground rules, wherever they invite us.