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@Ashkan_Humanity @iribnews_irib You're a crazy person.

@iribnews_irib These companies must be punished by Iran! They host military personnel in Arab countries like UAE and Jordan and etc!

Companies that have long denied service to Iran due to U.S. sanctions—like AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, PayPal, Stripe, Apple Dev, and many global payment networks—now claim to care about internet access in Iran.

This is so good. I love Derek's essays.

@akinkunmi Thank you.

@carrickkv2 github.com/akinloluwami/a…

2 days and the server bill is already at ~$24. Sorry, guys, but this is not really sustainable. I have to take it down.

@Dominus_Kelvin Heavy use of DI (injection and inversion). Use a linter to ensure strict compliance. And honestly, using a framework is not bad. Nest.js does all this for you for free.

Hey senior African engineers, what are your best tips for building modular monoliths.

God is very intentional. Nothing about your life is random. Not the delays, not the detours, not even the waiting. He knows exactly what He's doing. Please learn to trust him more this year.

@mykolaharmash Thanks for this. This is awesome.

I made a free, open-source component to show release notes in iOS apps.

Not even just one, multiple. I'm so tired.

100% free and open-source background removal tool. avnac.design/remove-bg

@TheDumbTechGuy @koboateng @Jux_Larry 🤣

@koboateng @Jux_Larry Hoh. If ebi you like I call you insult you long time.

Today I found one of the guys who unfollow you after you follow them back. Guess who is not following back anymore.

@CieloDahy Thank you. It does show, but it seems some of the words are wrong.

Wow! Never thought my videos would reach english-speaking people! Today I created a Youtube Channel and I'll be uploading my videos. Here's the link. I uploaded the previous video of the series. youtube.com/channel/UCZKtf… let me know if it shows auto-translated. If not, I'll translate it by hand.

Cuando armé mi primera app para usuarios reales, la hice con mis amigos developers de toda la vida. El más experimentado me dijo: 'entiendo tu punto, pero necesito ver la app para poder codearla' Tuvimos varias charlas largas sobre UX/UI porque queríamos algo que la gente realmente ame. En la era en que cualquiera puede tirar un prompt en @claudecode y tener una app, lo que hace la diferencia es un diseño bien pensado. Siendo la que más experiencia tenía en diseño del equipo, tuve que desempolvar @figma . Diseño desde los 12 años, pero igual me llevó **dos semanas** enteras… y eso frenó todo el momentum del proyecto. Este Loom es el resumen de todo lo que aprendí a los ponchazos para que a vos te tome máximo un finde. Es la primera parte de la serie **“Vibecoding de 0 a 100”**. Acá muestro: → Cómo pienso una interfaz desde la idea hasta las pantallas → Cómo busco referencias reales en páginas como @referodesign , @Mobbin y 21st.dev → Cómo genero ideas rápidas de screens con @stitchbygoogle + Gemini El próximo vídeo que se viene es uno donde explico las mejores features de Stitch y como usarlo para generar interfaces increíbles en pocas horas. 100% enfocado a gente tech (que es el 90% de los que me siguen). Si querés feedback sobre la UX/UI de tu app o proyecto: a) mandame DM con screenshots, link o lo que sea b) preguntale directo a mi clon en pitchr.studio

@ace_rbk This guy 🤣

At least once every 90 days drop a foolish take that questions your character. You become relatable to idiots. You really don't want to appear perfect.

@Eniolorunda Why not hire top talents in Africa also, but then branch out to the UK, Portugal, Spain and other countries? I'll say, if you're building a Pan-African company, isn't that the more reason to hire from Africa itself? Are we saying that Africa itself does not have the talent?

I have followed with rapt attention the discourse that followed my conversation at the Platform Nigeria on May Day. The stark reality is this - opportunities are few and far between, unemployment/underemployment is high and sadly there are too few employers for a huge market such as ours, at least when compared to other markets such as China, India that have similar youth bulge. We Nigerians are some of the most hardworking and gritty people in the world. But we must tell ourselves the truth. Nigeria currently doesn’t have enough highly skilled technical talent resident in Nigeria to build companies that can scale globally. Interestingly, I have also read a lot of employers double down and agree with my current diagnosis around our country’s technical talent pipeline gap and confirmed it is true. Former Minister, Kemi Adeosun also referenced Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote comments around finding the right quality and quantity of talents for his refinery project. Let me ask a hard question - can we say that Nigeria has enough highly skilled technical talent still resident in Nigeria? That's a huge conundrum that any organization that wants to maintain market leadership must solve for. How many engineering executives do we have remaining in Nigeria that lead a payments team that handles payments infrastructure processing tens millions of transactions daily without fail? How many senior data scientists do we have in Nigeria that can create data models to appraise millions of customers while managing prudent NPLs? How many senior growth executives in Nigeria have the experience of growing a digital apps towards acquiring 80k customers a day through digital and offline channels while maintaining prudent CACs? It is important to note that this is not about Nigerians generally, this is about senior Nigerian talents still resident in Nigeria. Nigeria is not producing enough high quality senior technical talent and the little we have are emigrating. I can explain these to be that Nigeria does not have too many feeder industries across the board. As such, there are fewer starter companies that young talent can come from to feed into senior roles in other companies. Every one then ends up fighting for the same pool of senior leaders that have experience and bandwidth to deliver and win in the market. The effect of the Japa wave has been very well chronicled and I must add that this has been a trans-generational challenge. Remember that time in the early 80s where a lot of our medical professionals left for places like Saudi and the UAE? As at March 2024, Nigeria had lost around 16,000 medical doctors to other countries, most especially the US and the UK. The quality of technical education is also falling as our standard of education is lagging behind global counterparts. Can we say we have enough senior technical talent in Nigeria to compete with global competition especially China? But Moniepoint, Dangote, Flutterwave, LemFi are competing with them. Training young talents can fill the gap for the future but is inadequate for today. Companies need senior talent and cannot wait the eight to ten years needed to get them to senior levels to compete. In training young talent, Moniepoint has seen a lot of bright spots through our various interventions that are aimed at deepening the talent pool. So we are indeed doing something about improving talent density for the ecosystem. Through our DreamDevs programme, which is in its second year, we're training talented young engineering graduates with the skills they need to enter the workforce as top talent. We have supported the government's 3MTT agenda as well as a partnership with Unilag’s NITHUB to push the HatchDev initiative. Our Women in Tech internship programme, which now in its sixth year, provides women with the access, training and opportunities they need to build careers in tech. I also personally have a scholarship program for STEM students across select Nigerian universities in every geo-political zone. Competing globally also means that you spend top dollars to retain top Nigerian talents that you have nurtured. We routinely retain Nigerians that emigrate and pay them according to their local market standards. A recent example is an exceptional first class graduate we nurtured through our women in Tech program and had to go to school just as a path to emigrate and we had to retain abroad and offer an alternative naturalization path for her. Moniepoint has over 3,500 full time employees with over 90% Nigerian talents, and we’re growing 20% YoY. We’d love a world where this is at 99% while building for the world. Self deception isn’t a virtue and we must tell ourselves the home truth - we need to raise the quantity and quality of our technical talents resident in Nigeria to compete. No organization can rise above the quality of its output and execution is everything in this game. Nigeria will be great. Let’s all do the work together. By the way, top tech talents still resident in Nigeria, we need you badly. We pay above market rates and you will make real impact. Please apply here: moniepoint.com/careers For top Nigerian talents out of the country, we hire out of the UK, Portugal, Spain, India and Pakistan. Also apply, we are building digital banking infrastructure that provides financial happiness for emerging markets.

@web3creek @AdamRackis It's Ghanaian jollof rather.

@AdamRackis You'd love Jollof more if you try Nigerian Jollof. Nigeria has the best Jollof

Just tried Jollof for the first time. Holy shit 🔥

@onyedikagi_23 @AdamRackis It's actually Ghanaian jollof

@AdamRackis the only jollof rice dish recognized in the world is made from/by nigerians bro, be careful what you eat. it’s like saying germans make the best pasta. only eat nigerian jollof. nigerian!

@cjzafir How do I do this?

Codex 5.5 as orchestrator and Deepseek v4 as executor is a steal. I burnt 100M tokens in 36 hours on Deepseek v4. Beating Opus 4.6 with no sweat.

@quame_jnr1 🤣

Twitter once again abusing a word cos wdym you ragebaited yourself? Lol

@Yaw_Ridwan This era is one of my favourites.

Coding agents are exposing a hard truth in tech: engineers without product sense struggle, and product people without technical depth struggle too. If you are a dev who doesn't care about Product, or a PM who doesn't understand Code, you are likely not having enough fun with coding with agents as you should. If we put them in a race to ship a production-ready product today, who wins? 1. The Engineer who knows the "How"; writes code but has minimal Product knowledge? 2. The Product Owner who knows the "What"; describes what is to be built but has minimal Technical knowledge?

Needs to be more.