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If you're looking for an entry level job in software development, I made a list of projects to have in your portfolio, to make you stand out to employers, and increase your chances of getting hired. I'll be posting projects for more tech stacks regularly, so stay tuned!

@cleanstart502 Hi please

Another one Incoming? 40$ per hour if shortlisted and selected for the job Task easy just compare different outputs and decide which is better Who’s interested?🌝🌝

"??" for blunder in chess is low key so hurtful 😭

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 452,000 KILOMETRES BEHIND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO SPLASH DOWN IN THE EXACT SPOT THEY CALCULATED BEFORE THEY EVER LEFT THE GROUND THE MATHEMATICS WORKED. THE PHYSICS HELD. THE SILENCE ENDED. EVERY ENGINEER, MATHEMATICIAN, PHYSICIST, AND PROGRAMMER WHO TOUCHED THIS MISSION IS THE COOLEST PERSON ALIVE AND THEY KNOW IT WELCOME HOME

@jack19950879934 That’s a much better story. I watched this movie and remember the sister learning from her past behavior and changing. Her mother remained evil because she never chose to apologize and be better.

nigerian fiction is so heavy it feels like i need to wash myself in a river to rid myself of how it lingers, even when you’re done. i think it hits more because it’s like looking in a mirror; the verbiage is yours, the ppl are yours, the culture is familiar.

I don’t know how to explain it further or maybe I don’t want to, but people who are successful at their careers are not the regular 9-5ers. They don’t keep the mindset of people who watch the time while they work! That’s who this lady is! She’s an engineer, she has worked beyond her working hours. And from what Femi has said, she has also gone an extra mile to deliver meals! Again, a dev! While others might have foams in their mouths if you ever ask them to do such, she is doing it as a pathway to understand user behaviour that in turn helps her to build a super app! This is not advice! There’s no moral to this story. I am not asking you to do anything. But people who want to join us at the top 20% of our careers will definitely take this as a wake up call! NOBODY IS SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR CAREERS BY LOOKING AT THEIR 9-5 CLOCK! Selah; this is my sermon today!

Obsidian has three engineers. Three. The app has been downloaded 5 million times, 1.5 million people open it every month, and three people build the whole thing. They make $25 million a year. They never took a dollar from any investor. I ran the math on this and it broke my brain a little. Each person on the team (about 9 total, including non-engineering staff) brings in roughly $2.8 million a year. The typical software company generates about $130,000 per employee, according to SaaS Capital’s 2025 industry report. Obsidian runs at 21 times that number. Now put Notion next to it. Notion is the other big name in note-taking apps. They make somewhere between $400 and $600 million a year, which sounds massive. But they also have over 1,000 employees and raised around $350 million from venture capitalists (investors who fund startups in exchange for a chunk of ownership). That works out to about $500,000 per person. Obsidian generates five times that, with no outside investors and no board telling them what to build. The reason is almost stupidly simple. Obsidian saves your notes as regular files on your own phone or computer, not on some company server. So when another million people download the app, Obsidian’s costs barely change. Notion stores everything on their servers, which means every new user costs them more money to support. Obsidian charges for two optional extras: Sync ($4 to $5 a month to keep your notes updated across your phone and laptop) and Publish ($8 to $10 a month to turn your notes into a website). Everything else is free. Over 2,000 independent developers volunteer their time building add-ons for Obsidian. Task trackers, flashcard tools, calendar views, habit logs, all free. A normal company would hire hundreds of engineers for that. Obsidian’s three engineers keep the core alive while thousands of volunteers handle everything else. Two University of Waterloo grads, Shida Li and Erica Xu, started this as a side project during COVID lockdowns in 2020. They were running a small outlining app called Dynalist at the time. Six years later they own 100% of a company worth an estimated $350 million. Hiring engineer number four is a 33% increase in building power for a team that already out-earns companies 100 times its size.

I might be the only one who doesn’t see anything worth celebrating about the birth and death of Jesus Christ. As someone who values logic and rational thinking, it’s a concept that has never fully made sense to me. I often find myself asking a question many people seem to avoid because it makes them uncomfortable: what exactly did the coming, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ truly achieve in practical terms? If the central claim is that his death changed the world, then where is that change? “It is finished,” we’re told. But what exactly was finished? We still live in a world filled with sickness, death, war, and suffering. In fact, one could argue that things have only become more complex, more chaotic, and, in many ways, worse. So what exactly did his death change? We are told it brought “salvation.” But salvation from what, exactly, and into what certainty? Even with this supposed gift, nothing appears guaranteed. You still have to struggle, obey, endure, and hope you have done enough to qualify. So is it truly a gift, or just another system of conditions wrapped in spiritual language? We are told he died for our sins, yet sin did not disappear. If anything, it feels more normalized than ever. So was the problem truly solved, or merely redefined? And here is the part that puzzles me the most: if Jesus came to give humanity power over death, where is that power? We are told he conquered death, yet death remains undefeated in every physical sense we can observe. Everyone still dies. Everyone still fears it. So what does “victory over death” actually mean beyond a comforting phrase? What changed in any tangible sense? If Jesus had never been born and never died, what is the absolute worst outcome we would be facing today that we are not already experiencing? Would the world be drastically different, or are we simply holding on to a belief because we were taught to, rather than because we can clearly see its results? And if the entire promise rests on eternal life, something no one has returned to confirm and no one can conclusively prove, something that is not even guaranteed, then aren’t we basing everything on a hope that demands belief without evidence? I am not asking these questions out of disrespect, but out of genuine curiosity. If something is claimed to be the greatest turning point in human history, then its impact should be undeniable, not something that constantly requires explanation and faith to sustain it.

A Nigerian software engineer and a German software engineer push the same code to production tonight. Same stack. Same PR review. Same 2am. One of them earns €7,000/month with free healthcare, job protection laws, and a pension that kicks in at 30. The other earns ₦600,000 and just spent ₦47,000 on generator fuel this month alone. We need to talk about this.

One of the best decisions I’ve ever made was hiring you, Pecs. You’re easily ranked as one of the top engineers I’ve worked with in my entire life. My fondest memory of you was the work to switch from delivery radius to polygons. So much reading, thinking and testing. You demo-ed that thing and omo, I knew my work was done on delivery engineering. Second one was your algorithm to rank display that you literally told me. “Femi, don’t make changes to the db on my tables without my permission. My code takes care of this” 😂. Working with you has been such a thrill! Will you ever reduce the length of your function names though? 😔

Tell Cersei it was me

I’m 21 I just spent 406,000 on a laptop + delivery No handouts No help from my parents No luck involved Just straight hustle and determination to eat dinner I hope this motivates someone out there.

Captain man was literally a PG version of homelander

Learn whatever you want to learn, but make sure you learn systems engineering 💯

She didn’t even try backend engineering first?