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Ibrahim Sodiq

Self-taught developer who started out building software on an Android phone with Termux. Writes BRYME's Make Money, Tech and Sports coverage.

Ibrahim Sodiq writes BRYME's Make Money, Tech & AI and Sports coverage.

He started learning and developing software on an Android phone, primarily using Termux, rather than beginning with a conventional computer setup. Early on he ran into dependency and installation problems while trying to build the tools he needed — particularly the numerical and data-analysis packages, which carry compiled dependencies that are harder to install on mobile Termux than on desktop Linux — and moved to an Ubuntu environment on the phone to see whether that would be easier. He later returned to Termux after finding that a Python virtual environment gave him a better way to isolate a project and manage its dependencies, which let him keep building on the phone rather than abandon the work.

That work was driven by wanting to build his own automated trading systems rather than use someone else's, on a Python stack including NumPy, pandas, pandas-ta, scikit-learn and WebSocket and API libraries. The same phone-based setup went on to support Python trading bots, API integrations, automation and websites.

He has deployed his own projects to Render and worked through real deployment failures rather than tutorial examples — a build that could not find package.json because the platform was starting from the wrong directory, a static site that would not deploy without a publish directory, and an accidental second deployment of a project that already had a production service. His backend work has involved PostgreSQL, Neon, Firebase and Express, alongside the configuration and connectivity problems that come with them.

He works with Python, APIs, databases, WebSockets, automation and web development, and has built trading bots with Telegram integrations, machine-learning components, databases and live dashboards. Tools he has worked with include GitHub, Firebase, Neon and PostgreSQL, Replit, Render and Capacitor. What he writes about deployment comes from troubleshooting real failures rather than from following tutorials.

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Python · Termux · Android development · APIs · Databases · WebSockets · Automation · Web development · Trading bots · Machine learning · Deployment · PostgreSQL · Firebase · Render · Capacitor · GitHub

Articles by Ibrahim Sodiq

Arsenal's Title Defence Starts Friday Against CoventryArsenal host Coventry on Friday to begin the defence of their first Premier League title since 2004. The Community Shield is already won. The league is not.Ballon d'Or 2026: London, 26 October. The winner is not decided.UEFA and France Football have put the 70th Ballon d'Or in London on 26 October 2026. Ousmane Dembélé and Aitana Bonmatí hold the 2025 awards. The 2026 winners have not been named.Who Is Leading the 2026 Ballon d'Or Race? Our Picks for the Players Who Could WinThis is our assessment, not an official Ballon d'Or ranking. Only one player can win. Based on the 2025/26 club season and the World Cup, Harry Kane is our leading pick, with Lamine Yamal and Rodri the strongest challenges.Coventry, Ipswich and Hull: The Three Clubs Back in the Premier LeagueThe Premier League formally welcomed Coventry City, Ipswich Town and Hull City. How they came up, their opening fixtures, and what this page will not invent about their 'approach'.Manchester City After Guardiola: What Is Officially ConfirmedPep Guardiola stepped down after ten years and 20 trophies. Enzo Maresca is the new manager. The Community Shield was 3–0 to Arsenal. That is the record. Not a forecast.Liverpool Under Andoni Iraola: What the Club Has ConfirmedLiverpool appointed Andoni Iraola on 4 June. His first Premier League match is at Newcastle on Sunday. That is the chapter the club has actually written.Premier League Matchweek 1: The Opening Round, ConfirmedChampions Arsenal host Coventry on Friday 21 August. Here is the full opening round, with kick-off times and TV listings — no predictions and no invented team news.Five Opening-Weekend Matches, and Why They MatterArsenal–Coventry, Hull–United, City–Bournemouth, Newcastle–Liverpool and Fulham–Chelsea. Why these five fixtures are the ones the calendar itself made important.How the Champions League Actually Works NowThe group stage is gone. One 36-team table, eight matches against eight different opponents, and a bottom twelve who go home with nothing. Here is the format, and what it changed.Champions League Records: Who Actually Holds WhatReal Madrid's fifteen, the five-in-a-row nobody has matched, Juventus's seven lost finals, and the four clubs who reached a final in their own stadium. The records, with the awkward ones included.Premier League 2026/27: Every Confirmed Date Before Kick-OffArsenal host Coventry City on Friday 21 August to open the season. Here is the full opening round, who came up, who came down, the managers who changed and every confirmed date — no predictions.Arsenal 3-0 Manchester City: Maresca's First Day Went About as Badly as It CouldArsenal led inside the opening minute and were three up two minutes into the second half. Enzo Maresca's first competitive match as Manchester City manager finished with Arsenal fans singing at him.English Champions Since 1888: How the Title Was Won, and by WhomPreston won the first one without losing a game. Twenty-four clubs have won it since. The story of the English title is really the story of four structural changes — and who benefited from each.Spain Are World Champions: The 2026 World Cup, and What Its New Shape Actually DidFerran Torres settled it in the 106th minute at MetLife. Spain have a second star, Argentina's defence of the trophy ended in extra time, and the 48-team format pushed the European season back by a month.Beginner's Guide to Making Money Online: The Truth Nobody Tells YouAn honest beginner guide to building useful digital skills, avoiding online-money traps and earning without chasing shortcuts.Website Monetization: How to Turn a Real Audience Into RevenueA blunt, beginner-friendly guide to building an audience, choosing legitimate monetization and protecting user trust.What Upwork and Fiverr Actually Take From You in 2026Most fee guides online are repeating numbers the platforms have already changed. Here is what Upwork's and Fiverr's own documentation says today — and how to price so the cut does not surprise you.Writing Field Notes: How I Research Sites, Write to Them, and What I Will Not FakeWriting is the online skill that has actually paid me. This is the process I use instead of buying scripts: research a website, write to them, publish what happened. A gig is not guaranteed.Where to Host a Website for Free — And What Free Actually MeansYou can put a real site online without paying rent. Free is not unlimited, not a shop, and not the same product on every host. This is what GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Render, Vercel and Netlify actually document.What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Actually Do With Your ConversationsAll three let you stop your chats training their models. All three keep a route around that setting — and on every one of them, the same small button is the thing that undoes it.Learning to Code on a Phone: What Actually Broke, and What Fixed ItI started building automated trading software on an Android phone using Termux. The obstacle was never the screen or the keyboard — it was installing the numerical stack. Here is what went wrong, the detour that did not work, and what finally let me keep going.The Website Worked. The Deployment Didn't.Four things that went wrong deploying my own projects to Render — including the ENOENT package.json error on this very site — and the free-tier behaviour that can quietly tell Google not to index you.