mart.rs

Who's at fault? A. Frontend. B. Backend

as a dev, what was your first code editor?

only OGs remember notepad++

I was revamping a Go codebase yesterday; added some more fields to a struct, removed some and boom, the service still didn't panic where the struct is used or flag missing field 😪 These are the reasons I appreciate the expressiveness of Rust

Backend Developer interview: We can write 80% of our code with AI why should we still hire you. What will be your response?

If async is faster, why not make the whole codebase async?

If NULL means "unknown", why does NULL = NULL return false in SQL?

Two users try to book the last available seat on a flight at the exact same moment. How do you make sure only one of them succeeds?

I find it funny how some people open their laptops every single day, Monday to Sunday. No rest day at all.

I've scaled my app to 600k MRR I want to give you some sauce on scaling apps, distribution, running ads, etc. Drop your questions below, I'll try to answer as many as possible

Tech bros in 🇳🇬: Entry Level: ₦150 Mid Level: ₦350K – ₦500K Senior Level: ₦600K – ₦800K Team Lead: ₦1M – ₦1.5M Techie in 🇬🇧 : Junior Level: £1,500 Honestly, this isn’t the life we should be living in this part of the world.

“Women Being Nake£d is Not Beauty, We Must Learn To Cover Up” - First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu

PRESS STATEMENT In the last 24 hours, social media has exploded over my interview with Mehdi Hassan, albeit with varied opinions. Let me set the record straight. When I signed on to the privileged job granted to me by Mr. President, I was well aware of its implications. Selling ice cream, looking fine, and seeking the praises of men were never part of it. Some of the fiercest critics of my interview can not even stand local TV anchors. But the task of promoting and defending the President and his administration is what I do with ease and joy. I am prepared to appear before any interviewer, anywhere in the world, any day and at any time, to defend this government and its policies. I have never, and will never, subscribe to ducking or dodging interviews on matters that concern promoting and defending the administration I was appointed to serve. It is the least of what is required of me. Head to Head contacted me requesting an interview, stating that they wanted to challenge our government on security, the economy, and corruption. Nowhere in our almost six months of communication did they mention that they were going to challenge my past. If that had been their plan, ethically and professionally, they were supposed to inform me so I could prepare my response. But that’s okay, ethically, that is on them, not on me. I refused to swallow the pill of Mehdi’s “opposition research-style journalism,” and even today, if you carefully compare what he read as quotes from organisations and groups, you will see that many were inaccurate and some were outright fake news. But I will leave that for another day. As for what I said about President Tinubu in the past, I am glad those were things I said when I was in the opposition saddle with such zeal. It is all politics. Half of Donald Trump’s cabinet is made up of people who once spoke against him, and quite a number of people in our own cabinet also spoke against President Tinubu in the past. Those things do not bother him if you care to know. The majority of the naysayers are members of the opposition and their sympathisers. It does not bother me one bit. Their temporary excitement over the interview has not lasted and will not last, because it does not take away their obvious problem of lack of vision, mission in conducting and managing a political party; yet they seek to manage Nigeria. Clearly they have no path to victory and no alternative policies or program for the Nigerian people. And if they say they do, they can as well go to head to head and be interrogated on that; as the saying in Hausa goes “Ga fili Ga doki” I conclude by thanking the many Nigerians and non-Nigerians who sent in their commendations over my brave defence of our government in an interview where the anchor would hardly let you answer a question unless it suited his narrative. I still have admiration and respect for Mehdi Hassan as arguably the best debater on the planet. I look forward to part two of the Head to Head interview, and I am glad that by then questions about my past will no longer be news so that we can focus on our administration’s policies, programs and what we have achieved so far. Stay tuned. – D.H Bwala Special Adviser to President on Media and Policy Communication (State House) Saturday March 7, 2026

UPDATE Built a complete URL shortener API in three days. No tutorial. No template. Auth: signup with bcrypt hashing, login with JWT, middleware protecting routes. Core: shorten URLs with random codes or custom slugs like /danny-linkedin. Set expiration dates — expired links return 410 Gone. Smart duplicate detection: if the URL already exists and hasn't expired, return the existing link instead of creating a new one. Analytics: click tracking on every redirect, stats per link with creator verification, fetch all your links in one call. Security: 401 for unauthenticated requests. 403 if you try to view someone else's stats. Reserved usernames blocked. TypeScript. Express. MongoDB. Every decision was mine. Day 20.

The smartest people in world are Nigerians by far!!!!