Olaide Ola

C# | .NET | Software Engineer

[Sunny Elem @ElemSunny]

A quick science lesson for my people. 😂

Why do wet dreams happen?

I saw that issue a lot on the TL today, and I don't know why it's trending.

Part of it is simply biology.

The male body is constantly producing sperm. If a man goes a long time without ejaculation, the body may naturally release some of it during sleep. Think of it as the body occasionally emptying part of the storehouse to make room for new supplies.

Then there is the brain.

While you sleep, your brain is still very busy. It sorts through memories, thoughts, imaginations, emotions, things you saw yesterday, things you worried about, and sometimes turns them into a movie.

That is why some people have sexual dreams before a wet dream, while others wake up wondering what just happened. 😂

So before somebody concludes that every wet dream is a spiritual attack, or that you secretly fell in love with the person that appeared in it, remember that sometimes your body is simply following the biology manual God built into it.

A wet dream is not a sin.

The brain is running night shift.

The body is doing maintenance.

And you are there snoring peacefully, unaware of the meeting taking place. 😂

[Olaide Ola @_OlaideOla]

@theweekendds @thisisdmt01 Omo 🤣🤣🤣

[Rapto @heyrapto]

The fastest way to learn coding:

Build the same project 5 times.

I'm serious.

Don't build 5 different projects.

Build the SAME project 5 times.

Here's why:

First time: You follow a tutorial. You copy everything. You barely understand.

Second time: You try from memory. You get stuck. You check the tutorial. You continue.

Third time: You build it without the tutorial. Takes you 3 hours. You Google a lot.

Fourth time: You build it in 1 hour. You only Google twice.

Fifth time: You build it in 30 minutes. No tutorial. No Google. Just you.

Now you ACTUALLY know how to build it.

Most people build 5 different projects and understand none of them.

Instead, build 1 project 5 times and master it.

Then move to the next project.

First month of coding:

Build a todo list 5 times

Build a calculator 5 times

Build a portfolio page 5 times

That's 15 projects, but really it's 3 projects mastered.

Better than 15 projects you copied once and forgot.

Repetition is how you actually learn.

Not variety. Repetition.

[F.O.L.A @folaoftech]

Before buying that used laptop, remember not every spec you see tells the real story 👀

[Smart👨‍💻 | Software Engineer @smartnakamoura]

You want to design for fintech in Nigeria. Here's your actual starting point:

→ Read the CBN Consumer Protection Framework
→ Study real apps critically... Kuda, OPay, Moniepoint, Palmpay
→ Learn KYC, AML, tiered accounts, BVN/NIN, liveness detection
→ Read Paystack and Flutterwave's developer documentation
→ Follow every major fintech incident and trace what broke
→ Study the CBN 2026 Baseline Standards for Automated AML

Nobody teaches this in design school.
Nobody teaches this in bootcamps.

The people who figure it out are the ones who go looking.

Save this. Share it with every designer trying to break into fintech.

[Smart👨‍💻 | Software Engineer @smartnakamoura]

APIs every Nigerian fintech developer should know exists:
- NIBSS instant payment API (real-time interbank transfers)
- Paystack Transfer API (bulk disbursements)
- Flutterwave BVN verification
- Mono for bank account data and statements
- Okra for transaction history and identity
- Smile Identity for KYC and document verification
- Remita for government payment collections
- VFD for virtual account issuance

Most devs building fintech products in Nigeria are reinventing wheels that already exist.

Save this.

[NZ ☄️ @CodeByNZ]

For people who keep asking what to build

- Build your own operating system
- Build your database
- Build your virtual machine
- Build your web server
- Build your own game engine
- Build your compiler
- Build your own programming language
- Build your own browser
- Build your own blockchain
- Build your own encryption algorithm
- Build your own CPU emulator
- Build your own file system
- Build your own container runtime
- Build your own package manager
- Build your own shell
- Build your own window manager
- Build your own GUI toolkit
- Build your own text editor
- Build your own IDE
- Build your own version control system
- Build your own network protocol
- Build your own operating system kernel in assembly
- Build your own scheduler
- Build your own memory allocator
- Build your own hypervisor
- Build your own microkernel
- Build your own compiler backend (LLVM target)
- Build your own query language
- Build your own cache system (like Redis)
- Build your own message broker (like Kafka)
- Build your own search engine
- Build your own machine learning framework
- Build your own graphics renderer (rasterizer or ray tracer)
- Build your own physics engine
- Build your own scripting language
- Build your own audio engine
- Build your own database driver
- Build your own networking stack (TCP/IP implementation)
- Build your own API gateway
- Build your own reverse proxy
- Build your own load balancer
- Build your own CI/CD system
- Build your own operating system bootloader
- Build your own container orchestrator (like Kubernetes)
- Build your own distributed file system
- Build your own key
-value store
- Build your own authentication server (OAuth2/OpenID Connect)
- Build your own operating system scheduler
- Build your own compiler optimizer
- Build your own disassembler
- Build your own debugger
- Build your own profiler
- Build your own static code analyzer
- Build your own runtime (like Node.js)
- Build your own scripting sandbox
- Build your own browser engine (HTML/CSS/JS parser and renderer)
- Build your own blockchain consensus algorithm
- Build your own zero
-knowledge proof system
- Build your own operating system for embedded devices

[Vivo @vivoplt]

Don’t overcomplicate it.

• Build a Password Manager to learn file handling, hashing (not full crypto)
• Build a URL Shortener to understand routing, IDs, and persistence
• Build a Todo App with deadlines to practice CRUD and basic state
• Build a Web Scraper to learn requests, parsing, and rate limits
• Build a CLI Expense Tracker to master logic, files, and edge cases
• Build a Log Analyzer to work with files, timestamps, and patterns
• Build a Simple Recommender using similarity rules (not ML magic)
• Build an Email Automation Script using SMTP and scheduling

Projects. Not tutorials.

[Akshay Shinde @ConsciousRide]

The only backend concepts you need to know

• API paradigms ⇒ REST ⇒ GraphQL ⇒ tRPC/gRPC trade-offs
• Authentication ⇒ JWT vs Sessions, OAuth2 flows, Refresh tokens
• Authorization ⇒ RBAC vs ABAC, Middleware guards
• Databases ⇒ SQL (Postgres default) vs NoSQL (when to choose)
• Caching ⇒ Redis patterns (TTL, cache-aside, write-through)
• Rate limiting ⇒ Token bucket, Leaky bucket, Sliding window
• Async processing ⇒ Queues (RabbitMQ / Kafka), Background jobs
• Error handling ⇒ Global exceptions, Custom error classes
• Logging & Monitoring ⇒ Structured logs, Metrics (Prometheus), Tracing
• Scaling basics ⇒ Horizontal vs Vertical, Load balancers, Stateless services
• Resilience ⇒ Circuit breakers, Retries, Timeouts, Idempotency keys

[Olaide Ola @_OlaideOla]

@OPay_NG Please I sent you a DM. Kindly attend to it please

[Cap-EO 👨🏾‍💻 @EOEboh]

It's 2026, and These Are Backend Performance Concepts You Must Master:
- Concurrency vs parallelism: handling multiple tasks versus executing them simultaneously

- Connection pooling: reusing database/service connections instead of creating new ones

- Rate limiting: controlling request frequency to protect resources

- Backpressure: managing flow when consumers can't keep up with producers

- Idempotency: ensuring operations can be safely retried without side effects

- Circuit breakers: preventing cascading failures by stopping requests to unhealthy services

- Timeouts and retries: handling slow or failed requests gracefully

- Graceful degradation: maintaining core functionality when parts of the system fail

- Consistency models: eventual consistency, strong consistency and the tradeoffs

- Caching strategies: cache invalidation, TTL, write-through vs write-back

- Database indexing: how indexes speed up queries but slow down writes

- ACID vs BASE: transactional guarantees in different database types

- Horizontal vs vertical scaling: adding more machines versus bigger machines

- Load balancing: distributing work across servers

- Stateless design: why avoiding server-side session state helps scaling

[Vivo @vivoplt]

Backend Development Project Ideas

• Authentication API
• CRUD API For Users
• Blog Backend
• URL Shortener
• Pagination and Search API
• File Upload API
• Rate Limiter API
• Muti User chat Application
• Multi role user System
• O Auth2 Login API
• Job Queue System
• Recommendation System
• Video Steaming Service
• High Performance API With Caching
• Distributed File Storage System

[Vivo @vivoplt]

Don’t overcomplicate it.

• Build a Password Manager to learn file handling, hashing (not full crypto)
• Build a URL Shortener to understand routing, IDs, and persistence
• Build a Todo App with deadlines to practice CRUD and basic state
• Build a Web Scraper to learn requests, parsing, and rate limits
• Build a CLI Expense Tracker to master logic, files, and edge cases
• Build a Log Analyzer to work with files, timestamps, and patterns
• Build a Simple Recommender using similarity rules (not ML magic)
• Build an Email Automation Script using SMTP and scheduling

Projects. Not tutorials.

[Akshay Shinde @ConsciousRide]

As an Engineer you should know the following concepts

Idempotency → Prevents duplicate payments
Pagination → Keeps your DB from dying
Versioning → Lets you evolve APIs without breaking clients
Rate limiting → Protects your service from abuse
Error codes → Helps clients handle failures correctly
Caching → Reduces load by 90%
JWT security → Prevents leaking sensitive data
N+1 queries → The difference between 10ms and 10s response time
Docs → Stops the `how does this API work?` Slack messages
Consistency → Choose the right tradeoff for your use case

[Slim @onu_slim]

How To Choose a Tech Career

Choosing a tech career is not about chasing whatever is trending. It is about finding the intersection of your strengths, your interests, and market demand. Tech is wide. It is more than coding, hacking, or building apps. There is space for analytical minds, creative minds, business minds, and problem-solvers of every type.

The first step is understanding yourself. Ask what naturally excites you. Do you enjoy solving puzzles and logical problems? Do you love creating visuals and designing experiences? Do you prefer writing, analysing data, organizing systems, helping people, or building ideas from scratch? Your tech path should grow from who you are, not from pressure or comparison. When your work aligns with your personality, you will have the energy to stay consistent when it gets difficult.

Next, understand that tech careers fall into different personalities. If you enjoy logic, structure, and building systems, you may thrive in software engineering, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain, or AI development. If you love patterns, numbers, and insights, data analysis, data science, or machine learning may be your path. If you are creative and enjoy aesthetics and user experience, UI/UX design, product design, graphics and motion design, or creative technology may suit you. And if you like connecting people, explaining ideas, organizing teams, or translating business needs into solutions, you may belong in product management, technical writing, business analysis, or project delivery.

The key is this: you don’t have to code to be in tech. Coding is powerful, but tech also needs designers, writers, analysts, testers, strategists, researchers, product thinkers, and support specialists. The industry runs on collaboration, not just keyboards and algorithms.

Once you have a sense of direction, get curious. Research job roles. Read real-world job descriptions. Watch introductory videos. Talk to professionals if you can. Do a short beginner course to test the waters before fully committing. Tech requires continuous learning, and the earlier you embrace curiosity, the faster you will grow.

Another important factor is market demand. Look for roles that have strong hiring needs globally and locally. This doesn’t mean chasing hype. It means understanding where the world is going: automation, data, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, digital experience, financial technology, health tech, and remote tools. Choose a path that gives you options, growth, and flexibility.

Be honest about your learning style and environment. Some tech careers require deep concentration and long hours of problem-solving. Others require collaboration, communication, and people skills. Some roles are mentally intense but flexible. Others are structured and predictable. There is no “better” path. Only the path that matches your wiring.

And remember, tech is not instant wealth. It is a skill economy. You grow through consistency, projects, mentorship, community, and continuous practice. Start small. Build real things. Join communities. Create a portfolio. Let your work introduce you long before your CV speaks.

Most importantly, don’t fear starting late. Don’t fear switching paths. Don’t fear being a beginner. Everyone you admire in tech once opened their first tutorial confused and uncertain. What matters is not how early you start, but how committed you are to becoming valuable.

So take your time. Learn. Explore. Reflect. Then choose the tech path that gives you meaning, growth, and a future you’re proud of.

Because the goal is not just to work in tech.

The goal is to build a life you don’t need to escape from.

[Àgbà John Doe @jon_d_doe]

I have a very important advice to give to young single men.

Some of you in this generation are very lucky to meet young girls who do not mind to be in a relationship with you, despite you not being financially okay.

Please do not use your insecurities to chase the girls away.

Stop comparing yourselves with your male friends that are better than you financially, & are in a relationship.

Do not tell any young girl that is interested in being with you, that you're not in the right place (financially) to be in a relationship with her.

Let her be the one to say that, or take a walk, if she is not okay being in a relationship with you, because you're broke.

As long as you're not lazy, you're chasing your goals, & you know that your future is going to be okay, please keep giving her hope.

Always remember, women have the gift of foresight.

When a woman decides to be with you, despite being broke, she's not saying that she is happy with you being broke.

She's saying that she's happy with where she sees that you're headed.

She wants to invest in you, sacrifice for you, and build with you.

As long as you do not make her feel "ugly", non attractive, or you're comparing her with other girls that are obviously looking better than she is, she'll be happy with being with you.

If you're arrogant, too judgemental and making her feel low, she'll start to consider better options, to prove to you that she's capable of being like those girls, and this will make her cheat on you.

Do not assume that because you're not giving her money, then another man is giving her money, until she proves you otherwise.

As long as she's living within her verifiable means, please appreciate her and work hard to give her the life that she has dreamt for both of you.

This was what I did.

I was able to sustain my relationship for 9 years because I didn't feel insecure, and I didn't push my lovely wife away.

2 years before I married her, suitors were coming. But I had already secured a good job, and she gave none of them a listening ear.

Her sacrifices and patience paid off.

My little wisdom and hardwork and dedication paid off too.

And we became husband and wife.

As long as you're focused, and as long as you have a solid girlfriend behind you, you'll come out of that stage of uncertainty, & both of you will look back to your days of humble beginnings.

Please stop feeling insecure.

Stop thinking that you do not deserve to be in a relationship because you're broke.

You do.

You have a dick.

You have a brain.

You're legit.

You're hardworking.

It's just a matter of time.

End.

[Adarsh Gupta ✨ @Adarsh____gupta]

Backend development is simple, you just need to learn these

HTTP methods
Status codes
Request headers
Response headers
Authentication
Authorization
JWT tokens
Session management
Cookies
OAuth 2.0
API design
RESTful APIs
GraphQL
WebSockets
Server-side rendering
Database design
SQL queries
NoSQL databases
Database indexing
Query optimization
ACID properties
CAP theorem
Normalization
Denormalization
ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)
Connection pooling
Transactions
Migrations
Seeding data
Caching strategies
Redis
Memcached
CDN integration
Rate limiting
Throttling
API versioning
Middleware
Error handling
Logging
Monitoring
Application performance monitoring (APM)
Load balancing
Horizontal scaling
Vertical scaling
Microservices architecture
Monolithic architecture
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Message queues
Pub/Sub patterns
Event-driven architecture
CQRS pattern
Saga pattern
API Gateway
Service mesh
Docker containers
Kubernetes orchestration
CI/CD pipelines
Environment variables
Configuration management
Secrets management
CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
CSRF protection
XSS prevention
SQL injection prevention
Input validation
Output sanitization
Password hashing
Bcrypt/Argon2
Salt and pepper
Two-factor authentication (2FA)
Single sign-on (SSO)
RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control)
File uploads
Streaming data
Pagination
Filtering and sorting
Full-text search
Elasticsearch
Background jobs
Cron jobs
Task scheduling
Worker processes
Async/await patterns
Promises
Callbacks
Thread pools
Process management
Memory management
Garbage collection
Performance profiling
Benchmarking
Testing (unit, integration, E2E)
Mocking and stubbing
API docs (Swagger/OpenAPI)
Postman/Insomnia
Version control (Git)
Code review practices
Debugging techniques
Production deployment strategies

[Olaide Ola @_OlaideOla]

@myaccessbank Kindly check your DM. I sent you a message hours ago. Thanks.

[Aditya @_adityaa21]

Today, I saw my Ex School girlfriend.
And I found out she’s about to get married.

It wasn’t jealousy.
It wasn’t anger.
It was something heavier... regret.

For a moment, everything went quiet.

Back then, when she was part of my life, I wasn’t ready.
Not emotionally.
Not mentally.
Not in life.

I was still figuring myself out.
Struggling with direction.
Chasing stability.
Trying to become someone.

And somewhere in that process,
I let the conversations slow down.
I chose silence over effort.
I assumed time would wait.

It didn’t.

Today, I’m in a much better place.
I have things I once wished for:

• clarity about life
• ambition and focus
• self-respect
• a stronger position than before

And that’s when the thought hit me..
painfully clear.

“If I had stayed in touch…
If I hadn’t walked away…
If timing was kinder…”

Maybe things could’ve been different.

Now I have two things:
Growth and maturity.

But I don’t have her.

That’s the cruel part of life no one warns you about.
Sometimes you become the right person
after losing the right one.

Regret doesn’t shout.
It whispers.

It shows up quietly and asks:
“What if?”

And the hardest truth to accept is this:
There’s nothing I can do now.

No message can change her decision.
No explanation can rewind time.
Some doors close without drama
and never open again.

Some people come into your life to teach you timing.
Not forever.

But I am not able to accept this fact now. 💔

Guys, if you have someone who genuinely cares about you and you genuinely love them.

Never let them go easily, i Said NEVER.

[CEPHAS @cephas_ok]

Backend should be built with languages like C#

Avoid JavaScript or Python for your backend.