Dami.

Putting this out there for whoever finds it, I am looking for a co-founder who is a permanent resident or citizen of the UK. I have a ready to market product and go to market strategy. Please send a DM if this is you or retweet so someone can find it.

Seen all the DMs and going through them, a lot came through and might take some time before responding, Please send DMs with a portfolio link, it will help a lot.

I am currently working on a product in the entertainment industry for Nigeria, I am building a team and currently looking forward to hiring a UI/UX designer worth their salt on a contract. If you are interested, please drop a comment or DM and I will reach out.

@oladapodev @richie_muhammed Curious to know your thoughts?

@richie_muhammed 216 endpoints for what accountId everywhere Everything here could have been a 5 or fewer endpoints

That's not a flex, You didn't "build" 216 endpoints. You generated 216 routes quality > quantity. I'd rather have 15 clean, well-designed, properly authenticated, rate-limited, documented endpoints . Than Some /admin/wallet/approve that should’ve been one endpoint

@Dayveed_Ade I think it's about skills and value. A company without a sponsorship license, applied for it and issued me a COS all within the space of one month.

British grads AUTOMATICALLY have an edge over anybody in need of sponsorship. You guys don’t know what it takes to get COS 😄😄😄 It’s good sha. Me i like all this kind talk.

@seanpepisky This is possibly the closest explanation anyone can give about this. It's just a different reality entirely and it's not possible to fully understand until it becomes your reality.

I had my wedding introduction in November, a year before I finally relocated. Life happened, things didn’t eventually go as planned, and before I knew it, I found myself starting life all over again in a completely different country. When I first moved, I honestly thought meeting someone and building something serious would be easier. I mean, there are Nigerians everywhere abroad right? Africans everywhere. You’d naturally think connection would come easy because of shared culture, shared struggles, shared background. Omo… reality humbled me fast. One thing many people back home don’t understand is that relocation changes people mentally. Everybody is trying to survive. Everybody is healing from something. Everybody is chasing papers, stability, money, peace, validation, or escape. Back in Nigeria, we already understand our dating style naturally. We know the little cultural things without explaining too much. We understand family expectations, respect, communication style, how we joke, how we argue, even how we show affection. But abroad? It’s a whole different world. The same way Nigerians and Africans have our own dating mindset is the same way white women, Asian women, South American women, and African Americans have theirs too. Different expectations. Different upbringing. Different interpretation of love, loyalty, space, emotions, and commitment. You could literally vibe with someone today, have an amazing conversation, laugh all night, make plans… then two days later they’ve disconnected completely like you never existed. No explanation. No closure. Nothing. At first, I used to overthink it. I’d wonder if I said something wrong. Later I realized this lifestyle abroad can make people emotionally detached. Everything moves fast. People protect themselves differently here. And funny enough, I did connect with some African American women too but chai… those ones almost used tuehtueh to finish my life 😂 Me that was already a confirmed don in Naija aka Álátá Șwèșwè suddenly started running from coochie like my destiny was attached to escaping temptation. Because you quickly realize not everybody is looking for the same thing. Some want companionship. Some want survival. Some want temporary enjoyment. Some are lonely. Some are broken. Some genuinely want love but don’t even know how to receive it anymore. That’s why whenever people casually say: “Oh you’ll find someone there.” I just laugh. It really isn’t as easy as it looks from the outside. A lot of Nigerians living abroad are deeply lonely, even the ones smiling online. Some people work nonstop just to avoid going home to emptiness. Some keep trying relationships that never become anything serious. Some eventually go back home to find a wife or husband because deep down, they still crave that familiar understanding that feels natural to them. Not because foreign people are bad. Not because Nigerians are perfect. But because sometimes familiarity brings peace. Sometimes you just want somebody that understands why you say “have you eaten?” as a love language instead of seeing it as a random question. Sometimes you want somebody that understands your silence, your culture, your humor, your fears, your family expectations, and your hustle without needing a full presentation every single time. Living abroad teaches you many things. One of them is that loneliness can exist even in a country full of millions of people. And genuine connection? That one is rare everywhere.

@_dr_Oge @Lammie_Art01 Technically they have if you are in London. You can find almost all authentic dishes from around the world in London.

@Lammie_Art01 As per UK have the best food in the world

Immigration Officer: How long will you be staying in the UK? Me: Just overnight, my flight leaves at 6 tomorrow morning. Immigration Officer: And what’s the purpose of your visit? Me: Honestly…I’ve just come here to eat

@onyekanwelue Move to west London

Japanese people are hard to crack. Very hard to befriend. They don’t care! 💔

@TosinOlugbenga I have always been a big fan of separate modules like this. Let's say you have a Customer, Order, Cart, Payment and Delivery modules. How do you define boundaries and interaction between them. Since they all heavily rely on each other?

I am not a senior African engineer, but I can give few tips if it will be considered Treat each feature as an independent module within the app. Each module should behave like an independent business capability. This helps you to have clear ownership, reduced coupling, easier extraction later if needed and better onboarding. I don’t know if I made any sense

@kofookesola There's literally no reason or excuse to be harsh on a developer who made a mistake. Just correct them and move on.

Lool we spent 10 years coddling developers in Nigeria, telling them they are the greatest thing since sliced bread on a global stage. I think we can be harsher. Nobody is a child, you can’t come and try to be a thought leader with obviously zero experience and expect to be treated like an egg, being a thought leader comes with critique, handle it or get out.

@hsprafrique This alone does not qualify, how do you write codes that follow proper DDD and SOLID while at this? How do you handle tests? The list goes on and on

The Moniepoint CEO said Nigerian developers don't meet global standards. Let me tell you what global standards actually look like for a backend developer at a fintech company: Can you design a payment system that handles concurrent transactions without duplicate charges? Can you implement idempotency across distributed services? Can you explain CAP theorem and which tradeoff you'd make for a Nigerian payment rail? Can you build a fraud detection system that catches anomalies in real time not in batch jobs? Can you write a database migration on a table with 50 million rows with zero downtime? Can you design for intermittent network specifically Nigerian infrastructure not AWS us-east-1? If you can answer all six confidently with working code You meet global standards. The next question is whether Moniepoint's offer meets yours.

@Benn_X1 I totally agree with this. Most roles showing up now are for seniors and above, this is still the hiring process problems, there won't be any senior left if everyone is hiring only seniors, it will be a full circle back to the same onboarding and learning that created the seniors

The thing is companies want to move fast. These days open positions are mainly for senior and senior+ roles. Having domain experience or even domain adjacent experience puts the candidate in a better position. That era of slowly onboarding is unfortunately gone. You can look at recent job postings and you’ll notice this trend. In some markets, it’s become even worse as they hire for specific tech stacks too.

Let’s say you’re looking for a technical lead, you’d want someone with 7+ years experience, but 5 years experience can also work if the candidate has owned big projects and led other developers. This is excluding the other technical competencies you require. How do you use onboarding period to train a supposed technical lead who has been freelancing all their career?

@Benn_X1 Then there's also the consideration for if I am building a new team for a new startup or creating another team out of an existing team. The only time strong domain knowledge will be prioritized is when it's a new team for a new startup.

@Benn_X1 Tech lead is a specific role that needs both strong leadership and technical skills, this will be the primary criteria for hiring. If 5+ years show more strength in both than 7+ years, then 5+ years it is. Domain specific knowledge onboarding and learning will still be for either

@Benn_X1 I have had to interview and make hiring decisions for a lot of software engineers. I see this issue all the time and it can easily be solved.

@Benn_X1 This is a problem that is everywhere, and have been solved with solutions easily accessible for any worthwhile company. There's an onboarding and learning phase for a reason, any company complaining about this is just masking their hiring process problems.

I made a post along this line in the past. It’s not enough that you can write code. You need to become a domain expert. A number of people just write code, jump on the next freelancing gig or job, and do anything provided it brings money. There’s no long term career plan. If you’ve worked exclusively in e-commerce or fintech, getting the next job is easier especially if it’s in the same domain. The people who think job hunting is difficult now will find out it’s even more difficult for senior roles. You don’t get headhunted because you have 7 years experience. An e-commerce company is trying to fill a role and they see you have 4 years experience across two e-commerce companies, they’ll reach out to you because you have the domain knowledge. The same thing is applicable to any other domain. But when you’ve been everywhere and become a jack of all trades, averaging 10 months in each role, you’ll wonder why you’re not getting a big break. Sorry to burst your bubbles too because your freelance experience does not count. You don’t know how to work in a proper team, can’t manage stakeholders, no proof that you even understand the SDLC, etc. You won’t understand what freelancing as your primary 'job' is doing to your career until you try to get a big break and realise you’re too experienced to be a junior and not experienced enough to be mid level or senior.

@Benn_X1 In tech, no. In healthcare and construction, yes.

Is there shortage of skilled workers in the UK?

@system_monarch @threadreaderapp unroll

Message Queues & Event-Driven Patterns are the backbone of every scalable modern system - Netflix, Uber, and Atlassian all run on them. Most engineers know the basics (“just throw a queue in there”), but interviewers destroy you with the deep follow-ups: “How do you guarantee exactly-once processing when a Kafka broker dies mid-replay?” “How do you handle poison messages without crashing your entire consumer fleet?” “What happens to your Sagas during a partial failure at 50k events/sec?” These 20 must-know Message Queues & Event-Driven Patterns take you from high-level overview to production-grade depth that actually ships reliably at scale. Save this thread. Read till the end.

The UK civil service is one of the most stable employers in the country. No visa sponsorship required for most roles. Pension. Job security. Clear progression. But most people have no idea how to actually get in. Here's everything you need to know 🧵

@David_Bilsonn Weird that I passed turing interview some years back but no job offer.

One of the surest ways to get paid as a developer in 2026 is Andela and Turing But are you cracked enough to make it through their hiring process?

This is kind of how I became a software engineer.