Vector 🥷⚡️

Gm Solana We are outside at SEZ Dubai, attending my first ever life solana event @SuperteamAE and it's sure gonna be a banger 😎, thanks to @Harri_obi and @afscott for making this possible

Bro, I swear even my dad didn’t know, I was just shocked. And he is someone who’s usually more informed about Nigeria politics and news than I am 🤦‍♂️.

@ChrisOk_ If I deck you bro 🙄

@judeVector Huhhh.... Sorry bro. 🫣

I thought I was the only one feeling this way. I was with my dad this evening and he was talking about a possible comeback, but I had to ask him… with which team? This isn’t last season’s Chelsea under Maresca. Watching our games these days is honestly exhausting, pure eyesore.

@DifferentKaro I thought I was the only one feeling this way. I was with my dad this evening and he was talking about a possible comeback, but I had to ask him… with which team? This isn’t last season’s Chelsea under Maresca. Watching our games these days is honestly exhausting, pure eyesore.

I feel like alot of Chelsea fans logged off after Enzo Maresca was sacked. Like their heart is no longer there even if they are technically Chelsea fans.

@dieworkwear This is cold, Damn 🥶

since you started your account on aug 2021, you've tweeted 490,800 times. that's about 291 times per day, or roughly 18 tweets per hour (assuming you sleep for 8 hours), every day for almost five years. the reason why you don't see this america anymore is bc you don't go outside

Do you know what’s fascinating about the life of Jesus as recorded in the Holy Bible? Even without the messianic title (assume that you can set aside his divinity for a moment I mean), the human, non-religious persona of Jesus Christ would still be one of greatest, most progressive humans to ever live. It’s 2026 and no one could point to any of his acts/teachings that would violate today’s most progressive codes. For a man who lived 2000 years ago, in the darkest ages, isn’t that incredible? Read through his teachings, with his words, he simplified the complexity of human existence through the teachings of tolerance, love and kindness towards others. His teachings about the purity and honesty of Children as what makes them the best of humans, and how we should aspire to be like them. How we shouldn’t force our message on others, that once they say NO, just walk away. Thats consent. Never preached nor encouraged violence. Gender equality, alms giving and respect for constituted authority. He taught it all… Two Thousand and Twenty Six years ago.

Chai 😭😩

(1/?) Introducing the Chewing Glass Explorer, a Solana explorer built for devs. I got tired of explorers, so this week I decided to vibecode my own. Sol is basically a graph database, devs want to be able to explore the full context of accounts without a million clicks.

@SamuelOP675 E reach to my guy 😅😅😅

@judeVector You go soon slap me 😂😂😂

Some of you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is start talking nonsense 🙄. Like expecting Google’s logo to show it’s a search engine, Puma’s logo to show it’s a shoe company, or HP’s logo to show it’s a computer company.

A lot of you will quote Einstein, someone you’ve never seen or met. You’ll quote Aristotle and Plato without hesitation. But the moment someone quotes the Bible, that’s suddenly where you draw the line. Jokes on you

I am biased towards backend and it’s because I see more opportunities there, especially since you want to compete globally. This is not about frontend vs backend which is better, but about where there are more opportunities which will in turn increase your chances. While I was researching for jobs with relocation support from my small apartment in Benin, Nigeria, I noticed a pattern. My primary source was LinkedIn. The majority of Nigerian engineers whose previous role was in a Nigerian company and current role in a company outside Nigeria were mostly in Europe. Netherlands and Germany seemed to have more numbers and it was in specific cities: Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. I mean direct jobs, not masters degree to job pipeline or menial jobs in between. Most of these people were also backend engineers. 1 or 2 out of 10 were frontend engineers. Those with PM or UI/UX Designer titles mostly had to do a degree first. This is what I observed. Again LinkedIn was the primary source and I could be wrong. At the time, I was doing everything from react to react native, and like many other devs, I thought learning JS, Java, Python, Golang and their respective web frameworks and libraries meant I was making progress or growing. My research results showed I was wasting my time spreading myself too thin. Most of the Nigerian devs who relocated with a job were hired at companies using Python or Java. I had to let go of JS ecosystem entirely. Of course there are few jobs requiring Node JS, but I’d rather focus on what has worked the most for others with a similar profile. After a while, I decided on Berlin and looked at job postings for mid level engineer positions. I noted the reoccurring skills in the various postings, I also compared my profile to the Nigerians before me who relocated with a job offer. I noticed a huge difference in how they presented themselves on LinkedIn, few of them had their CV in their LinkedIn page and I saw that I did not have the experience they had. To make up for the experience, I started working on personal projects. I created a study plan to fill the gaps. For nearly two years, the earliest I went to bed was between 1 to 2am. The gaps I had were mainly in system design. The typical Nigerian startup engineering culture does not leave room for engineers to develop the intuition and experience to design systems. It’s usually the PM anchoring an unproductive meeting were backend and frontend engineers do back and forths and then with inputs from designers about a feature. The arguments are mostly about implementation details of what the 'payload' should look like. There’s rarely any technical direction or strategy to support the OKRs (that’s if the company even have one). This means opportunities for mentorship are limited since there’s no true technical lead. People just build features and fix bugs week in week out. So how do you even have real world experience about replication and database redundancy? It’s one thing to read about CAP theorem or even memorise it and another thing to have actual practical knowledge and supporting experience to talk about it in a technical interview. If you go through my posts from early 2022, you’ll notice I had a monthly dump where I completed at least one Udemy course or read one book every month. If I had to do it again, I’d study chapter 1-9 of Designing Data Intensive Applications and build a distributed key value store to get practical experience with LSM Trees. After that I’ll study the vol 1 and vol 2 of System Design Interview: An Insider's perspective. It took me more than a year to truly feel like I was actually mid level in Germany. I bought and read most of these books on my way to where I am now.

@NASA This is really cool 😎

For 20 years, our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has searched the planet for signs of long-ago water. It has sent back photos that are not only stunning, but useful – they'll help us when future astronauts land on Mars to explore it. Which is your favorite?

@a_ix_d Bro thinking about this , its so wild 😭

the average nigerian uses less power per year than an american refrigerator think about that

Actually its a u8 🙂‍↔️

@a_ix_d People that are clearly mad, it shouldn't come as a surprise again😪, was it not one that said the other day that the country is now safer than 10 years ago 🤦‍♂️

i lost my mind when he said this😭

Now we wait 😇

@J_wiil7 I saw some in Aliexpress but don't know how long it will take to get here, also some some sites here but they do not have BBC micro bit which I want to purchase as well

@judeVector have you tried sourcing from chineese vendors directly ??

Please, does anyone know a reliable store or website where I can buy embedded development boards like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and similar hardware, with fast delivery to Nigeria or within Nigeria?

@ChrisOk_ 💯

@judeVector Thank God for people who bet on me early enough.

I really resonate with this. So many talented people are being overlooked simply because they haven’t been given the chance to prove themselves. Everyone asks for experience on a résumé, but how do you gain that experience if no one is willing to give you the opportunity in the first place? The passion, the hunger, and the drive are already there, what’s missing is someone willing to take that first chance on them. So much potential is going to waste because of this cycle.