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Self-improvement earns you respect and envy, while self-sacrifice often breeds resentment. The ones you sacrifice for can resent you for the debt of your sacrifice and the one that sacrifices from being overwhelmed or underappreciated.

@Benn_X1 Exactly, they want to know how you implemented a solution and what prompted that decision.

When interviewing for mid level and senior roles in Europe, at least in my experience and what I have also seen in subreddits, you won’t get these type of questions. They’re so simple that it will be like it’s too good to be true how easy you’re getting the job 😂. Go to tech subreddits of any Western European country or the US, people are crashing out like mad cos they can’t find a job even when they’re experienced. The difficulty level is hard to explain. The questions are mostly situational so it’s hard to just cram and 'read' about it. You’ll need actual experience. In most cases, it does not even feel like an interview. It’s more of a conversation because the interviewers are going to be your peers. If it feels like a typical question and answer interview, it means they’re not moving forward with you. The format is usually something like, "I see you did X in your resume, how did you handle Y?". How you respond determines the next phase of the conversation. Sometimes we even talk about your hobbies. Before I started conducting interviews, my company organised a training session to coach us on what we should focus on. We want to find out what you know and most importantly, how you behave when you don’t know something? Instead of asking microservices vs monoliths, ask about the setup in their current company. You’ll find out what they think about the architecture; you’ll also know if they are familiar with scrum based on how they respond. "We use Postgres but it is a managed service in AWS" already tells you they know about cloud services, so no need to ask any cloud related question except to probe their contribution to managing the cloud resources. A good follow up question will be something related to Terraform. If they don’t have experience with it and can’t explain how AWS is managed in their current company, they’re trying to bullshit their way through. No need to push further, change the topic so they don’t feel like they’re performing badly in the interview.

@JUSTUS_M3X @thekenndubisi It’s not cheating, it’s how pricing works globally. Even YouTube Premium costs more in the US than in Nigeria. Same principle applies to salaries.

@0xec2 @thekenndubisi That's cheating, and it is not suppose to be so

So apparently people will reject a million naira a month gig because it’s less than the global rate. 🙂‍↔️

@Benn_X1 Your DM is closed chief.

I blame the people who start companies and try to create the impression that they are building a sort of family. Like we got into a professional contract where we both agreed on compensation, and few months down the line you are asking for upward review. I'd expect that you show me numbers to support the fact that things have indeed changed since I hired you and you have provided more value since them. Instead the argument for a raise is 'global rate'. Let's be serious please. I am not your daddy. Salary negotiation is something many people suck at. I used to leave a lot of money on the table too, so I get it. It's quite sad a lot of people don't take their career seriously. If you want a raise and/or internal promotion, you have to build a case for it. Make sure your manager is aware of the things you are doing, document everything, tie your contributions to measureable outcomes, ensure you work on impactful things (they are mostly low value, like taking the initiative to investigate and fix a hidden bug that was costing the company money), etc. When you present this and make a request for upward review, management can understand what you mean because you are speaking in a language they understand. If your argument is that the work is difficult, what they hear is that you are not equiped to do your job. Your manager will start looking at a perfomance improvement plan or investing in learning resources to bring you up to speed. The skill set required to get into corportate is very differnt from what is required to stay and excel corporate. At the end of the day, a software engineer is an employee. Just because you wear hoodie to work and you have flexible work hours does not mean corporate culture and politics do not affect you. Stop treating your career like a freelancing gig!

Compensation follows local market rates and cost of living. That's why a DevOps role in London will typically pay more than the same role in Edinburgh.

@JUSTUS_M3X @thekenndubisi Global standards define the work, not the pay. Compensation follows local market rates and cost of living.

@0xec2 @thekenndubisi So there is no more global standards Or at least, average

@JUSTUS_M3X @thekenndubisi Rates are regional and tied to cost of living. A London salary won’t match what someone earns in Edinburgh.

@thekenndubisi But why would someone pay less than the global rate while they claim to be working according to standard, Meanwhile it's only when it comes to payment they won't do according to standards. The fact is that we all know what we are doing. Why are there global exchange rate sef🥱🥱

@Brownkingsage1 @Boluwatife_00 @Mr_Jibzz No lies there chief. IYKYK

@Boluwatife_00 @Mr_Jibzz I catch am en say Enjoy your day chief . Nigerian influencer and lies na 5&6

He’s currently in Australia, doing so well Two remote jobs Married with a baby girl. Time, what a concept. He buzzed me, guy how far where I fit put this 50m, I just begin smile on his behalf

@smartnakamoura This would be one of the reasons @oviosu blocked you. You too dey type rubbish.

A Nigerian fintech just lost ₦20 million to a fake webhook. Attacker didn’t hack anything. They just POSTed this to the endpoint: { "event": "transfer.success", "amount": 500000, "status": "success" } Backend credited the user. Zero money moved. This is happening more in crypto payments too. What every backend dev must do in 2026: 1. Verify webhook signature + IP + timestamp (not just event name). 2. Never credit on webhook alone always confirm on-chain + NIBSS. 3. Add rate limiting and replay attack protection. 4. Reconcile every stablecoin inflow against blockchain truth. Crypto rails move fast. One lazy endpoint and you’re done. Save this like your production depends on it. Drop your worst webhook horror story 👇

@smartnakamoura Critically examine that payload, is it even complete?

@Baddy_wan @therealbelano I have payroute.ai for sale. Domains are digital real estate.

@therealbelano Make una dy take am easy with the lies !

Bro! One guy flip one domain for $685,000 😭😭 I said he waited 4 years. Domain he bought for $6

@therealbelano payroute.ai is for sale

You are right, bot.ai sold for $1.2 million just this February. Thats why I don’t reply those nuisance in the comment section. They know nothing about life and wouldn’t blame them sha. I watch a guy flip a website he built with loveable for $25k plus! Tell these ones, they’ll argue with you.

@lanceeihoda @NigeriaBol75595 @boltapp

@NigeriaBol75595 You guys honestly need to work on the folks you onboard on this app. It has price co trol.for a reason and this crap that the app price ain't workable should stop. Offboard them off the app

@OfficialSamkayz @KennyOniyi ??

@KennyOniyi What they expose is not the real system

I keep understanding why Nigerian banks prefer on-prem over cloud services every day. We dont have the infrastructure to counter the series of attacks that will hit the country financial systems if we go cloud. Let's just maintain our on-prem abeg 😁

@OfficialSamkayz @Kingsley1456664 What's your definition of a cloud data center?

@Kingsley1456664 Yes, you are right, but we have a cloud data centre in Nigeria, yet banks choose to store everything in-house. In Nigeria, bank data stays in their head office.

Yeah “terrible idea” is a stretch tbh. For a classroom use case, what you’ve built already covers like 90% of real-world behaviour. The “edge cases” are more about people intentionally trying to bypass it, which is a different problem entirely. At that point, it’s less about tech and more about how far you want to go for enforcement.

He said terrible idea, how is that "edge cases"? And I never said it was 100 percent secured. The IP already handles device tracking for this level. And also there's a session token for each QR created. I am not angry just saying. He'd rather allow anyone write attendance on paper than let someone spoof location. How many people can even do that?

You guys are weird. I've seen how lecturers struggle to extract attendance from manual name writing and how people write names for their friends. Talking about location, it can be spoofed. If you are already in class, what's the point of spoofing it? If you want to sign in for someone, you'd have to spoof the location and switch IPs, all under 20 seconds. My department is Food Science and Technology. I don't think there's anyone who would start thinking of things just to mark attendance for someone. You have 20 seconds to scan the QR code. No one will wait 10 minutes for you to be switching IPs. I never said it is 100% secure. I am just trying things out. Please leave me alone.

@TheNiyi__ @ThriveTrack @asemota @osuide Lack of proper IDS/IPS. There should be alerting and continuous monitoring in place - that’s where detection starts.

@ThriveTrack @asemota @osuide The real issue lies in detection. 5 years back, I managed an infrastructure attacked from within the datacenters of 2 popular companies from 3 different locations. I know people with bigger infra def has more stories. How they remain undetected is the problem.

I don't know if it was @osuide who mentioned to me many years ago that what was saving Nigerian organizations from breaches was that we didn't have good Internet bandwidth. That has now changed. I remember the Maersk hacking incident where the only data that was safe was the offline African based one.

@Sock5ive1 @DadaBoyEhiz Fourgate na new place nah

@DadaBoyEhiz You go Don ball for fourgate be that...

Moved to AjayiFarms in the 90s I saw that area grow Links Tutors, Dudley Reeves College , Donald , Isolog , Peaklane all from the 1st brick up

@BigBen_UC @OpeFoodCritic Who says it's only Isoko that eats ribotor

@OpeFoodCritic Werey say na Delta soup. WTF is Delta? Na ISOKO soup.

@Ali519520 @TheBeninBlogger You need the injection mate.

@TheBeninBlogger From all you have said I think you need more injections.

"I exposed some truth to my dad; I told him about himself. The next thing they did was take me to a psychiatric hospital. I got injected twice. One injection affected me for a whole month." - Nigerian Teen says