Joe

Dev & Technical Writer. Pythonista.

[Joe @Josylad]

These email notifications give me more joy than anything.

I started @HandlerNG a few months ago and I am always glad to see people listing their apartments for takeovers on the platform.

If you are looking for a new house or know anyone house hunting, tell them to checkout Handler.

It is a community-driven peer to peer house renting platform, you can list your current place and find your next home with ease.

[Ozedikus Nwanne @Ozedikus]

Any leader you cannot question is a tyrant
Any group you cannot question is a cult
Any belief you cannot question is a dogma

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Black people, Fortinet is giving away free cybersecurity certs right now. NSE 1 through 3 cost you nothing. No prerequisites. Open globally. Career changers included. You do not need a CS degree or a current IT job to start. https://t.co/sgKn6lOsnu Stay Dangerous.

[Joe @Josylad]

@vijaytupakula @awscloud Seems like Sendy.
Did you check sendy before building this?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This Saturday, we will be having another edition of the Sterling Bank Nationwide Online Maths Quiz.

The platform for the quiz is https://t.co/dnjSLGbm07 . Just register and wait for the countdown.

It’s open and free for every Nigerian student, and the winners get ₦500k, ₦300k, and ₦200k respectively.

All you need to participate is a phone, tablet, desktop, or laptop.

We are making education rewarding, fun and entertaining again, because that’s the only way we can save the nation.

[Joe @Josylad]

Up Haaland!!!
Up Norway!!!

[Joe @Josylad]

In recent weeks, I have been thinking about the last Election and the Coming election.

I keep remembering how many other people and I followed their INEC PU officers to the LGA collation center and switched on our Hotspot for them to be able to upload results to the INEC server, but all to no avail.

I was at the collation center till about 9 PM before I went home; we all finally gave up after about 3 hours of trying to upload one 5MB result sheet image without any luck.

So, I got an idea for the upcoming election: what if we have an Open Citizen-led Collation platform, where people at their polling unit can snap and upload an image of the EC8 forms directly into the portal, and anyone from anywhere across Nigeria can view the results from other polling units from the comfort of their home.

This Idea gave birth to OpenVote, an intelligent citizen-led result collection platform.
OpenVote helps Nigerians share polling unit result sheets openly — so everyone can see what was recorded on the ground, not just what they are told afterward.

Still in Beta phase, but I am so impressed with the performance so far. I have been testing with various result sheets from the last election, and the success rate has been soo high.

The AI system knows all political parties, checks the results sheet, and records the votes for each party after a consensus step.

I hope this could help us bring some transparency to our electioneering process.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The coding competition has started for the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome, Italy.

It’s beautiful to see bright minds challenge themselves.

Next year we will have our children compete in the coding competition as well.

[Cyrus Ademola @CyrusAdemola]

This is one reason why Nigeria's public policies are always flawed.

With no disrespect to Dr. Joe himself, but policies shouldn't be based on individual ideas or what a group of elites considered progressive or "the brightest way of doing things".

It should be based on collected data, survey, democratic inputs and feedback from the populace. People sitting in an air conditioner filled room can't just assume what is best for the mass population in the country.

It's a monopolisation of abstract and pedestrian knowledge that no single human being or a group of politically privileged human beings can know.

On NYSC reforms, what's the data that show that the current system isn't working? And if any, where's the data that indicate that the new system will solve the identified problem? What research was carried? Where's the democratic input from the people who are currently in the system (the corp members)? Where's the feedback mechanism that made this new approach justifiable?

Without any of this, we just propose ideas that sound and look good on paper only for it to become adversely inapplicable to those who the ideas directly affected.

The same way I asked Mr. Oyedele then what data was driving his tax reform bill, and the proposed increment in VAT and CGT in the bill, only to have the host and the co-host kick me out of the space.

Our intellectual and political elites must be humble enough to know that not all ideas in their head are made of gold.

Else, we continue to fix what necessarily isn't broken.

[Joe @Josylad]

This is the future.
Deepseek v4 Pro is great at most tasks.

[Ronin @DeRonin_]

My entire AI stack is now Chinese 🇨🇳

87% cheaper. same revenue

swaps by task:

1. reasoning / backend brain
Opus 4.8 → Kimi K2.7
benchmark gap: ~8% · price: ~11x cheaper

2. code generation
GPT-5.5 → Qwen 3.7 Max
benchmark gap: ~18% · price: ~7x cheaper

3. agent loops + tool calling
Sonnet 4.7 → GLM 5.2
benchmark gap: ~3% · price: ~5x cheaper on input

4. cheap volume / bulk processing
GPT-5.5 mini → MiMo V2.5
benchmark gap: ~6% · price: ~12x cheaper

5. image generation
GPT-Image-2 → Wan 2.5
benchmark gap: ~5% · price: ~8x cheaper

6. video generation
Sora 2 → Kling 3.0
benchmark gap: roughly equal · price: ~6x cheaper

[ result after 30 days: ]

operating costs dropped 87%, output quality dropped 4% on average, revenue unchanged

the most important that these models will be not banned in a month and i can run them locally

nobody will steal my data and i can learn them as i need

full article drops tomorrow with:
> exact routing logic per task type
> the 2 cases where I still pay for American
> the migration playbook anyone can copy in a weekend

VERY IMPORTANT to get migrated now, while it's not too late

[Julian Dumebi Duru @julian__duru]

Hello folks,

The Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026 is here. This year’s theme is The Laptop LLM Challenge: local, on-device AI for the hardware people already have.

We are organizing this competition to surface the best talent and ideas tackling frontier problems in local inference.

The challenge asks builders to create useful language-model applications that run fully offline on standard laptops: 8GB RAM, integrated graphics, no cloud dependency, and no API fees.

Participants submit a working prototype through an open-source GitHub repo.

Submissions are scored on accuracy, speed, and efficiency, with strict resource limits.

The total prize pool is $20,000.

If you are working on local inference, quantization, edge computing, model optimization, or practical deep tech infrastructure, this is worth your attention.

Deadline for submission: August 25, 2026.

Apply here: https://t.co/iv2zdbK2yM

[Iseunife The First @Shawnife]

I have seen many people show interest in AI Engineering in the past weeks.

Put together a roadmap with some of the best courses to help you get started.

[Joe @Josylad]

These WC hydration breaks are annoying.

[Joe @Josylad]

@Idnobletv @docneto Olodo!

[Joe @Josylad]

@saameeey Checkout @CommandCodeAI , its $1 per month

['nedu Onye Motion. @Nedu64]

Promise you electricity.

Get himself solar panels and inverter.

You, the understanding idiot, is on Band A inside heat.

Focus on Peter Obi for now sha.

[Joe @Josylad]

Olise owned that Midfield.

#FRASEN #worldcup

[Joe @Josylad]

ABUNADA!!! 👏👏👏

#worldcup

[Joe @Josylad]

It's World Cup Time!!!!
#México #worldcup

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I personally want Obi as Nigeria’s president so people can see that you can be upright, be respectful, be a Nigerian, be law-abiding, have no criminal case and still win in Nigeria. Obi’s presidency is good for Nigeria’s moral compass.