Mark Essien

Germany is no longer co-defending Israel in the Genocide case against it at the International Court of Justice. They have withdrawn their support for Israel.

The amount of retail commerce going on in Nigerian towns is staggering - particular compared to how dead German small towns are. If you regularly spend time in both locations, you can clearly see how fast Nigerian retail is speeding up, and how stagnant Germany is.

X6 that used to look so nice is now looking ugly

It's a bit ironic that the best bushmeat places in Nigeria are on the edge of the nature reserve

In Nigeria, a significant number of Governors have actually come from an accounting or finance background. This is unusual globally.

If you don't know the meaning of "harness" in the modern coding environment, then you have fallen behind. It's the most important new coding paradigm after LLMs.

If you want to be president, the best things you can study is Law. Lawyers tend to become president more than any other profession.

If the entire middle east oil infrastructure gets blown up, Nigerian oil will be very valuable.

It's easier to start a war and hard to end it. What Trump and Israel planned is not what is happening. Iran is simply converting to a Shia Militia that has the ability to shut down most of the world's energy. That's not a small thing, and it would take the entire world a decade back. Trump is not a military strategist. Israel miscalculated what Irans response would be - they prepared to be hit, they did not expect that Iran would attack the rest of the world so pressure would rise on Israel. Right now people are probably calling Israel day and night to stop. Trump is openly calling out Israel. Iran has no incentive to stop, because it already is no longer a coherent state. You need the militia to stop, and they may not. Iran can activate the Houthis to blockade the red sea again. They can destroy major gas fields and oil. All this will affect the entire world for years. Trump and Israel thought this would be like attacking Hezbollah, but this is a real war. If Trump escalates, the world will go into real pain for many years out. But if he doesn't, then it will look like Iran beat Trump.

@mitchellh @daniel_levine Congratulations - maybe the CEO will introduce you to Netanyahu.

Excited to share that I've joined Vercel's Board of Directors. Vercel is made up of builders and tastemakers that continually ship things that deeply impact how developers work: Next.js, AI SDK, v0, etc. I can't think of a more exciting place to be. Let's fucking ship. ▲ My relationship with Vercel goes back to the earliest days. HashiCorp was an early adopter of NextJS and Vercel (~10 years ago!) and it remains my default tech stack and deployment platform to this day. Ghostty's website is all on Vercel, too! Beyond that, I've been continually impressed with the teams relentless focus on shipping meaningful software. And importantly, software that has incredible taste. Now we are in the age of agentic software development. Vercel is building agentic infrastructure that I think every app and agent will need (I certainly need it!) and I can't think of a more exciting place to be. Huge thanks to @rauchg , Jeanne, Marten, @cramforce, @tomocchino and the entire Vercel team for the warm welcome. Time to work.

@3nnadi Their strategy is to create pain for the world. They know Israel prepared already, pointless striking them idly.

whats genuinely perplexing is this following equation; israel strikes iranian energy + iran strikes gcc energy = israeli energy remains unstruck why is iran not retaliating by striking israeli energy? is there any logical explanation for this?

@paulg Fashion is not a sense, it's a language. When you speak it, you can infer a phrase from a word in context.

One of Jessica's most mystifying qualities is how often she matches the places we go. Almost to the point of camouflage sometimes. I don't think she consciously plans it. She just has this uncannily powerful fashion sense.

Buy a bicycle.

@lotagodd It's not automated, the power only goes for the clearing

@markessien Why making the wheel automated. I would focus the power supplied by motor to bush clearing alone. It can be manually pushed

When I went to the village I noticed how expensive it was to hire people to clear the bush. So building something now to make bush clearing easier and faster.

Over the last couple of years, innocent muslims have been massacred in the tens of thousands with no comment from people like you. The dehumanising work you are doing is contributing to that. For people like you, it seems like a murdered child in Gaza is less worthy than another child. It's really sad, and it explains how terrible things could be done in the past. First stick blindly to your side, and push propaganda that everything related to the opposite side is bad. The exact same thing you are doing is how Germany could do so much killing without Germans protesting.

Community notes is such a good feature. Only shows up when people who usually disagree with each other agree on a note. Imagine legacy media had the guts to implement a system like this.

@IceBoss3D 😀

@markessien Mark don leave us behind to dei vibe code, e don move on to dei vibe fabricate.

nice

@AuduAuduyoudo @Fizy_hector Sure thing

@markessien @Fizy_hector When it's done, can we see the en product please

@Fizy_hector We will find out

@markessien Can this clear thick bush?

@supersanusi It's just the one that was there before

@markessien What kind of AC, most new ones might actually be more efficient on, they turn off the the compressor off when you hit the set temperature. You might also benefit from increasing the temp to the early 20s (personally not a fan of this)

Using a N3.6m solar system (8 panels, 10kwh battery), I am able to keep AC turned on 24/7 in my flat with no battery degradation. Let me explain how (this will be a bit long). First of all, in Ikot Ekpene, we have a big family house that has 5 flats in it (used by the various members of my immediate family). One of them is mine, but I am currently renovating it. So I am staying in the other flat. My Dad stays in one of the flats and his inverter was doing poorly, so I bought him the inverter system above (Felicity Lithium Phosphate - 8x 500 watt panels + 10kwh battery and 8kw inverter). The system can be expanded to include a second battery to make 20kwh, but he does not need that, so we kept it. The flat I temporarily moved to did not have solar, so I connected his system so we could share. I figured that this should be enough for both of us, as our daytime draw was 600watts. I observed that during the day I was seeing about 2kw production from the panels from around 11am till 4pm. The batteries fill up in the morning, and basically about 1.5kw is being wasted. Easy fix - turn on a 1 horsepower inverter AC with the mode "80". This makes it consume something like 800watts. Cool through the day. I tried running the bed room AC at night and the battery died in the early hours. Not ideal. The solution - I usually turn off the parlour AC (usually around 5pm), and the battery is close to 100%. The room AC I used a programmable switch which turns the AC on for 10-20 minutes every hour. The bedroom is smaller and more enclosed, so it stays very cold for the entire night. The power consumption - normally the AC would consume ~900wh in an hour, so with this system I drop consumption to maybe 200wh. If I turn it on 8 times, that's total consumption of 1600wh. More than enough left over for the battery to go through the night. So now I have full daytime and nighttime AC on a budget.