Rowjay

"I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I choose not to indulge certain appetites." - Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind.

“𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵.” — 𝘍𝘺𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺

You are alive. You have a home. You have a bed. You have food. Be grateful.

Nobody is rich enough. Just pray that life doesn’t test you with a problem bigger than your account balance. Always stay humble and kind.

“𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦.” — 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣

@jayhemz I dey tell u 😂🤣

@rowjay007 Them don lie give am say 1.2m is 1 billion

Nigerian Employers, especially those with diasporan experience, please nau. A few days ago, someone reached out that he wanted to set up a team in Nigeria to build out a solution. We got talking and he mentioned he had a budget of #4.5m per senior developer. This was subsequently revised to #3m per developer. Drafted the proposal that included sourcing all through handoff with a 7% commission over 3 months. This brother got back to ask whether we can revise salaries to #1.2m because in his words, "I spoke with a partner who is the Founder of Xyz, and he said 1.2m will fly for the role." This was someone who told me he wanted SENIOR Developers. I told him 1.2m won't fly and if that's his budget, he better source for them himself. But that's not the real catch. This Oga said he wanted to relocate these Senior Devs to Uyo, all expense paid for the course of 3 months. I told him that's a weird thing to pitch to a Senior. A competent senior developer should be able to work remotely. He claimed he had been burned before so he wants the Devs in person in an environment of his choosing. There and then, I called it quits. I sent our chat to a mentor and this was his reply in the screenshot below😂 If you're paranoid about hiring Senior Devs, you shouldn't be in the market looking for Senior Devs. Also, please if you don't have the budget, don't come to my DM. I only work based on referrals. I don't even talk about my clients, but I value my reputation. Regardless of what's in it for me, I won't put any Dev under me in harm's way. Please let's know what we are doing ndi Employers of Labour.

Dangerous men are rarely in a rush. They understand that precision always outperforms urgency.

“I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.” — Quentin Tarantino

Go + Gin → REST APIs Go + Fiber → High-Performance APIs Go + Echo → Web Framework Go + net/http → Core Backend Go + gRPC → Microservices Go + PostgreSQL → Relational DB Go + GORM → ORM / DB Access Go + Redis → Caching Go + Kafka → Event Streaming Go + NATS → Messaging Systems Go + Docker → Containers Go + Kubernetes → Cloud Native Go + Terraform → Infrastructure as Code Go + Prometheus → Monitoring Go + CLI → Dev Tools Go + WebSockets → Real-Time Systems one language backend cloud devops systems and people still say “go is too basic” 👇

TanStack Devtools just migrated to @OxcProject parser + magic-string!🚀 The results: 📌 Per-file transform: 1.65 ms → 0.46 ms 📌 Full pass: 75.73 ms → 21.25 ms 📌 Speedup: 3.56×

“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶.” — 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴

@veloriahq So deep

“𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘪𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.” — 𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘪

@veloriahq Sometimes pain brings people closer to God… and comfort makes them forget Him.

@Akintola_steve the presence of bad news doesn't imply the absence of good news. marriage works for many.

Life in a 9-5 job puts you on rails. Just like an NPC inside a well-defined sandbox, you are given a task and you work on it to perfection, and you repeat that day in, day out. Gradually, we start to look forward to our next holiday or break, where we can do the things we enjoy. It is a good life by every objective measure: well-paid, predictable. You can sketch the next forty years of your life on a napkin and be roughly correct. A startup gives you a chance to opt out of that mundane life. You trade the smooth glide for actual stakes. You work alongside people who picked weird, hard things over comfortable ones. Career compression is the cheat code. You wear several hats, ship faster, and get exposure that would take a decade at a big company. You walk away with stories, scars, and instincts that cannot be found anywhere else. In a country that quietly insists nothing is supposed to be cool, In a city built to make you forgettable, In a box that fits nicely, That's worth something.

Urgency is the best predictor of personal success.

Eventual consistency is a liability when real money is on the line. I wrote a deep dive on building multi-region systems that don't lose state under pressure — covering Sagas, Merkle audit chains, zero-trust credentials, and more. 🔗 rowjay.vercel.app/blogs/engineer… #SystemDesign #Go

@MrBeast Here we go

If this tweet has exactly 1 like in 24 hours I’ll give that person $1,000,000

@akinkunmi What's happening in this social media

Bro thinks he can use web scraping to clone Jumia. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Again, these mfs don't know jackshit about anything.