Babatomiwa Folayan

Àgbà ìmọ̀ ẹ̀rọ | Ayanlaayo, ẹni ti o ni iyi ati ọwọ 👨🏾‍💻 | Software Developer | Building the future with code | FelfoLTD | #Nigeria #England

[TechCabal @TechCabal]

This week, the US government ordered Anthropic to restrict access to Claude's frontier models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals, effective immediately. By that evening, access was gone globally.

Also, Bluechip Technologies, an African IT firm, acquired YarnGPT, a Nigerian text-to-speech AI trained on Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa.

We break down what the Anthropic directive reveals, why YarnGPT's acquisition signals a different path, and so much more in Episode 22 of Headlines by TechCabal, sponsored by Zoho.

Watch on our YouTube channel via this link : https://t.co/foFMqb6s3u , or listen wherever you get your podcasts by searching for “Headlines by TechCabal”.

#techcabal #headlinesbytechcabal

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@codeliterGO @tobyscript 😩😩😩

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@tobyscript @codeliterGO 😩😩😩

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

“CBN is about to restructure how Nigerian banks are built.”

This isn’t just policy, this could reshape the entire banking system. This is not just a technical adjustment, it’s a system-level redesign of risk and control.

👉 Watch the full conversation on YouTube @nairametrics.tv

https://t.co/uvlKamYGCH

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@Bomberuli @tobyscript 🧏

[BijanBowen @bijanbowen]

Had Claude Fable 5 log network packets and display them as cars on a highway, different car types = different packet types

[NASENI Innovation Hub @Nasenihub]

Meet Babson Ajibade, a finalist from Cross River, currently competing at the national level for a chance to pitch live at the NASENI Invention Fest and for a shot at the ₦100 MILLION NAIRA GRAND PRIZE.

But for this to happen, you have to vote.
👇🏿

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interview with SpaceX CFO

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@taylorotwell @BJTheCod3r Every time an update like this drops, the temptation to leave the Node ecosystem for Laravel grows a little stronger. Unmatched developer experience

[SKB @seyikanbai]

“Nigerian tailors were known for one thing: not delivering on time.

So I borrowed ₦200,000 each from 10 friends, started a tailoring business, and made a promise to deliver every outfit within 24 hours which i did.

That single decision changed my life.”

— Engineer Dare Aliu

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@AodenTeoMT This is great, need this to be multilingual

[bolaji @StephyBx_]

I’ve been following tech girlies on TikTok. Not software tech, the one who build with hardware and I have so much to learn

One girl is building her own mp3 and this one built a communication device. She’s also converting a 1970s Yamaha bike to electric, incredible

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@Frankdroid77 Heavy shout. Do you reckon that happens in our lifetime or are we talking 50 years away?

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

🚀🚀🚀

[Precious R. XII @PreciousJakeR]

Hi,

I'm a Nigerian game dev, and we made this at @Raven_illusion set in Lagos,
Adventurers: Mobile

Available on playstore and Appstore

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Vasilios Syrakis is back

after the massive success of his Atlassian video, he just dropped a follow-up addressing everything

the stuff people really wanted to know:

> no university degree, dropped out after 10th grade, started in help desk
> taught himself everything from scratch - books, videos, no mentor
> he didn't break any NDA - Atlassian published more detailed info themselves
> the architecture was 10 years old - he'd build it completely differently today

and the thing that hit hardest:

> to everyone who felt impostor syndrome watching his first video - he said the gap between you and someone who knows more is usually just time, not intelligence

the full response is above

and he's building a control plane from scratch on camera soon so you can see exactly how it's done

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

@Frankdroid77 Thinking about it, folks do this but do not tag it - ‘Friendship Date’

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Lisa Su (CEO of AMD) unveils the world's smallest AI development PC, capable of running 200B parameter models locally.

[Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman]

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++ and a former researcher at Bell Labs at its peak. I interviewed him about:

• What made Bell Labs different
• Programming language design: types, memory safety, bootstrapping
• When abstraction improves performance
• Anecdotes from building C++
• Thoughts on AI writing C++
• Mistakes he'd change while building C++

Where to watch:
• YouTube: https://t.co/THHTMP9VoT
• Spotify: https://t.co/5kVNWCYEAI
• Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/jOYDGtHtd1
• Transcript: https://t.co/5jmJQWVtWp

Thank you to this episode's sponsors for supporting my work:
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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
0:50 - The origin of C++
8:46 - What Bell Labs was like
17:24 - Dennis Ritchie
24:00 - When to build a programming language
31:59 - Bootstrapping a language
33:58 - C++ is not object-oriented
37:32 - Discussing type systems
46:20 - Memory safety
49:26 - Standards committee anecdotes
1:09:40 - Adding automatic garbage collection to C++
1:18:25 - Template instantiation is Turing complete
1:21:57 - Abstraction and performance
1:28:51 - AI writing code
1:35:54 - His motivation
1:39:18 - Famous quotes
1:46:48 - Reflecting on building C++
1:49:12 - Top C++ book recommendation
1:50:59 - Advice for his younger self
1:58:06 - Outro

[Babatomiwa Folayan @BossFelfo]

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[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

China: a 10-year-old casually gets a Mac Studio for “raising lobsters,” aka letting multiple AI agents work together like a tiny digital crew.

“The world of the future belongs to those who understand Tokens.”

Meet the AI-native children.