Okoya Usman

Developer. I automate things.
Currently building @livestreamsaver &

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

If I was Argentine, Messi would be my God.

[Pitch Aura @pitch_aura]

Nah bro, Messi is like a God in this team. When the ref whistled for halftime, these players waited for Messi to take the lead to the tunnel before they followed him.

This is insane, man

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

I have always maintained that Juju doesn’t exist although I understand why the average Nigerian is never going to stop believing in Juju.

Because the moment you acknowledge that juju doesn’t exist, the entire framework of their religious identity collapses with it and that is too difficult for them to live with.

[Duru Bond @Bond_not_james]

Juju is just a figment of a lazy imagination.

Underneath the “juju”, there’s a natural law being applied that’s unknown to most.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

The appropriate response to his arrival should be boos and stones.

Okay, factor in our collective cowardice, he should at least get a silent treatment or zero attendance.

The people singing “on your mandate…” are most likely aware of the recent security incidents across the country but they show up anyway.

There is also nothing to disprove that the casualties of the events won’t do the same if roles were switched and the people here are the casualty.

Well…

[NTANetwork @NTANewsNow]

Watch: The arrival of President Bola Tinubu and First Lady Oluremi at Ward E, Ikoyi for the APC Presidential Primary.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

True.

My observation of voting queue in my polling unit in 2015, 2019 and 2023 shows the 18-25 demography are very underrepresented.

There are always more elderly people on election day considering we have a very young population of over 60% under 30.

Social media effect is still underrated imo. Any candidate that can activate and tap into that demography will get a big boost.

[Toyyib Adewale Adelodun @taadelodun]

Oro Ijoba ati Ibo!

#yoruba #government #nigeria

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@Ol0ye Very true.

I have a cousin abroad who finished school and asked me to link him to any opportunity that comes up.

In my mind I was already counting on him to link me up for opportunities since he is in a better position.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

https://t.co/CW02aorTKo

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

Back in 2018, I ran a live video restreaming service. I used ffmpeg and nginx-rtmp to encode and broadcast the streams.

FFmpeg is powerful, but when you start encoding multiple live feeds simultaneously, it becomes a CPU monster.

I was upgrading servers every few weeks just to keep up. The streams were also super unstable most of the time.

I didn't want to throw more money at the problem. I was poor anyways.

So I asked myself, what if I just... proxied these video chunks directly? No transcoding. No ffmpeg. Just a server fetching and forwarding the stream segments with the source URLs obfuscated so no one could bypass my service or see my source publicly.

After a bit of research and trials, I finally made a script in PHP that:
- Decodes an encoded stream URL
- Fetches the .m3u8 playlist via cURL
- Rewrites every .ts segment URL to route back through my server
- Streams the video bytes directly to the client

No ffmpeg. No transcoding. Pure proxy on an apache server.

The URL encoding was a small but important touch: strrev + base64 + strrev. Not military-grade crypto, but enough to keep my stream source hidden from the average script kiddie without adding overhead.

The results were insane:
- CPU usage dropped sharply.
- Streams became more stable.
- Server costs went down.
- And the whole thing fit in one PHP file.

Only thing that stayed up was bandwidth consumption which to me was a fair tradeoff.

I shelved the project after a while, but I've been thinking about it lately. Cleaned it up and put it on GitHub in case it helps anyone dealing with the similar headache in 2026.

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

“Tinubu, all my children will vote for you.”

— A grateful woman from Imo State showers heartfelt prayers on President Tinubu as she witnesses the life-changing empowerment items she received at the Renewed Hope Youth Engagement Tour. 🫣

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

Boomplay:
https://t.co/9mfVGTwKh3

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

Started getting into DJing as a hobby and quickly realized I needed high quality audio files for the tracks I wanted to mix.

Instead of hunting them down manually, I quickly built a Python script to download .mp3 and .m4a audio files from Audiomack and Boomplay.

Audiomack was pretty straightforward. Boomplay took some digging and light reverse-engineering, but I eventually got it working.

I also made it open source in case it’s useful to anyone else.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

Audiomack:
https://t.co/XZrWWe2tkw

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@Crown_n_Clover @KR3Wmatic That is expected if you kill enough people who rejected it.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@xy_xy_xxyy @shang1308 @KieranCFC88 ngl its a very convenient day, I give them that

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@simultaneous_00 @TheMahleek Thank you genius.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@ossynoya It’s not even enough for them to do so in private, they still need the clout from rubbing it in people’s face and killing the solidarity.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

Lack of solidarity is a major bane to this country’s progress.

[Stephanie Iniidara @StephanieInii]

Just synced my PayPal to Paga.

I’m not boycotting it with you people.😭

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@NoSurrender_87 @LyesBouzidi10 Amorim’s foundation.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@Ck91Mufc @MUFC_redarmy99 I would take Bournemouth coach.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@Letter_to_Jack Natural selection.

[Okoya Usman @OkoyaUsman]

@leclercsletters The horse stopped prancing.