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Christian

[Jillian @JillianChili]

The second viewing of The Odyssey is even more painful. Once you settle into its rhythm, it becomes less a hero's journey more a mourning for a civilization unraveling. Your body feels the full weight of Odysseus as bonds collapse and the world slowly forgets what made it human

[Jillian @JillianChili]

Nolan's The Odyssey makes the Trojan Horse haunting by framing it as a corruption of Zeus's sacred law of xenia. A gift meant to symbolize trust becomes an instrument of annihilation. War doesn't just destroy people it teaches us how to weaponize our humanity.

[Big Sheddy 🦅 @coder_blvck]

With Kontinuo you can move from AI provider A to AI proivder B without losing all the context you've built up over time during a specific task.

read the docs: https://t.co/wBAEjsctQ8

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Titanium @akinkunmi]

I’m exploring new opportunities as a software engineer.
I build real products, shipped to thousands of users.
Check out my work → https://t.co/bBkVkhHhh0
If you’re working on something interesting, let’s talk.

Retweets appreciated. 🙏

[Abdulhamid Hassan @ijbguy]

After five years of building @mono_hq, we’re excited to join Flutterwave and continue our mission of building world-class open banking infrastructure for Africa. Deeply grateful to our team, customers, and investors for believing from day one. Onward 🚀 More on our journey from seed to exit below.

[Damilare Akinlaja @FourEyedWiz]

It's the best time to learn everything from 1st principles

[dára sobaloju @darasoba]

We saw a lot on campus, some people entertained demonic activities because of “groaning that cannot be uttered”, interpreting it as praying in tongues in a bizarre manner which is completely inaccurate.

Many believers were taught that “groanings that cannot be uttered” refers to speaking in tongues, but Paul’s argument does not support that reading. When you slow down and examine the text carefully, you notice something striking. Paul is not talking about a human vocal act at all. He is describing the Spirit’s ministry, not the believer’s.

Romans 8 has a repeated pattern of groaning. Creation groans. Believers groan. Then suddenly Paul says, “the Spirit Himself makes intercession with groanings that cannot be uttered.” This shift in subject tells you immediately that the groaning in verse 26 is the Spirit’s, not ours. Because of that, it cannot be referring to speaking in tongues or any other audible practice. The phrase “cannot be uttered” closes that door completely. Paul is not describing speech in another language. He is describing intercession that happens beyond language altogether.

The context makes it even clearer. The problem Paul addresses is not a lack of tongues. It is a lack of clarity. He says, “we do not know what to pray for as we should.” The weakness here is ignorance, not silence. Our limitation is that we cannot always articulate God’s will or even discern what is best in a given moment. The Spirit answers that limitation by interceding for us from within, expressing our need to the Father in a manner that aligns perfectly with the will of God.

The Spirit carries out a depth of advocacy that cannot be captured in sounds, syllables, or utterances. It is not a technique. It is not an expression the believer performs. It is the Spirit doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

To put it simply, the Holy Spirit strengthens us in our weakness and one of the ways He does this is by praying for us in a way that perfectly aligns with God’s will. A clear illustration of this dynamic appears in the life of Jesus at Gethsemane. In that moment Jesus embodies the full weight of human limitation. He acknowledges the tension between human desire and divine will, saying, “If it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not my will but Yours be done.” Luke records that in that moment an angel strengthened Him. Divine help met human weakness so that Jesus could yield perfectly to the Father’s will.

This is the exact logic Paul develops from Romans 5 through Romans 8. In Romans 5 the Spirit pours God’s love into our hearts to sustain us in suffering. In Romans 6 and 7 human limitation is exposed; our flesh cannot carry us. In Romans 8 the Spirit fills every gap. He empowers us, assures us, sustains us, and even intercedes for us where our understanding fails.

So “groanings that cannot be uttered” is not an invitation to manufacture strange vocal experiences. It is Paul unveiling the quiet, steady, perfect work of the Spirit within. It is the Spirit translating our weakness into effective intercession. It is God helping us pray when we no longer know how to. It is the assurance that even in your deepest weakness, God is not silent within you. He later mentioned in the chapter that “nothing can ever separate us from Christ’s love.”

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

Sometimes when I look back at my early years in tech, I cringe a bit. I used to walk around with that quiet engineer ego… thinking I knew more than I actually did, arguing on PRs just to sound smart, over-engineering random stuff cause I wanted to “prove” I was the clever one in the room.

But the funny thing is… the people who actually grow into staff level never behave like that. Real seniority is almost the opposite of ego.

It’s like that basketball analogy you posted. In tech, the “uncoachable engineer” looks like:

– arguing with every code review instead of trying to understand the context
– assuming their solution is the best without reading history or constraints
– avoiding basic fundamentals because they think they’re “past that stage”
– talking more than they listen
– optimizing for cleverness instead of long-term value

The shift happens when you realise staff engineering is not about being the smartest coder… it’s about being the calmest learner.

The people I saw actually grow this year focused on very boring but powerful habits:

– asking dumb questions early instead of hiding confusion
– reading design docs deeply before proposing anything
– treating every senior dev as a free mentor instead of competition
– learning fundamentals (OS, distributed systems, networks) without shame
– shipping small things consistently instead of chasing some genius moment
– unblocking teammates even when the problem is not glamorous
– choosing clarity over cleverness in every PR
– knowing when to drop an idea because it doesn’t serve the team

What took me years to understand:

Your ego is the biggest blocker to becoming staff.
Not your skills.
Not the difficulty of the problems.
Not the company politics.
Just your ego.

The moment you stop performing intelligence and start absorbing knowledge, everything compounds.

The moment you stop trying to win arguments and start trying to understand systems, everything becomes easier.

And the moment you stop coding to impress and start coding to provide value, people suddenly trust you with bigger responsibilities.

Real staff engineers are basically “advanced beginners” who never stopped learning.

If I had to summarise what I learnt this year:

Drop the ego, stay curious, make things simpler, help others win, and your career will quietly take off in a way you won’t even realise until months later.

It’s never about being the star of the park.
It’s about becoming the person the whole team relies on.

[Cap-EO 👨🏾‍💻 @EOEboh]

I've realized to really be cracked, you have to embrace the boring things

[PNW Ronda @ProLifeisProGod]

The day before my ex-husband died in a shootout with police, after robbing a bank, he called me to tell me he loved me, and he asked me to look after his mother if anything happened to him.

He didn't tell me about the bank robbery, but I'd left him years prior because he'd become dangerous. He threatened to kill and rob drug mules at the border, and to rob banks for years.

At the time of his death, I was remarried to a former LEO.

My second husband and I tried to help him for years, and failed.

Despite my lack of belief that he would actually rob a bank, I gave my word that I would look after her if she were ever alone.

Throughout our marriage, my first husband kept me away from his mother, Joan, because she was 'crazy'. I spent maybe 10 hours with her over the course of our 16 year marriage. When she talked about Jesus, we left.

At the time of the robbery, almost her entire family was dead, except for a cousin. Joans daughter died a year prior. Her husband was dying in an assisted living home, across town, but inaccessible to her. Now, her son was dead.

She was in assisted living, powerless to visit her husband.

She was a lifelong, Holy Spirit filled Christian.

After the trauma of the bank robbery it took me six months to pull myself together and visit her. I did it only because I promised my ex-husband that I would.

I deeply regret waiting so long.

When I arrived at the home, and saw her, my heart broke again. She was a husk of the woman I'd occasionally visited during my marriage to her son.

Her face was puffy, her eyes red from endless crying. It took her a moment to recognize me and my fear of her hating me for abandoning her son vanished as she grabbed me and held on.

My second husband and I visited once a week for two years. We took her shopping, and for lunch. She'd been a pilot, so we took her to the mall to ride on the slingshot ride, and we took her to visit her dying husband.

When she needed memory care we visited her at the lockdown home.

We were her only visitors for a year at the memory care home.

A month before she died, they prematurely moved her to hospice. Her cousin was her guardian; I had no legal rights as her former daughter in law.

I found out she was in hospice on my weekly visit. They'd moved her to a staging room, where there was no intercom. Then, they forgot to feed her or give her water or medicine.

They literally had to find her, at my demand.

I canceled work for a month, to stay with her. If I left, they didn't feed her, or give her water or morphine.

So I slept in the bed with her. I was an atheist and hated the God I didn't believe in, but I laid there giving her water on a sponge and read the Bible to her 12 hours a day.

I'd fallen in love with her.

It was all for her, but I soon found myself weeping while reading to her. She smiled at me, and just kept asking me to read God's word.

Her cousin came the last week of Joan's life. Cheryl sat quietly in the corner, reading her Bible to herself. Cheryl wanted me to leave. In her eyes I was a heathen. She refused to read the Bible to Joan.

The home wanted me to leave, saying that Joan was 'only hanging on because she felt loved, and I needed to leave so she could let go and die.'

Two days before she passed, in a coma, they finally kicked me out. Covid hit and they only allowed one visitor. Cheryl had legal rights, so I was barred.

Years later I can see the goodness of God in all that suffering. He had me reading the Bible, loving a woman who could give me nothing.

He taught me patience, perseverance, and He showed me His word.

I will love Joan forever. I can't wait to see her in heaven. She was a blessing in so many ways.

This is her on the swing at the mall (she had to sit in my lap for safety reasons), and in my lap at my home.

I think about her every day and feel the extraordinary love of Jesus, every time.

I love you Joan, sweet child of God. Dance. Let heaven rejoice at the blessing you surely brought to heaven.

[¿kofo? @kofookesola]

After almost 2 years of building (before open-sourcing it), I’m excited to share Servflow, an engine and dashboard built to make API and AI agent creation ridiculously easy.

What makes it special:
⚙️ Create AI Agents instantly, exposed over an API
🌐 Build standard REST API endpoints with rich integrations & workflow actions
🤖 Spin up full MCP servers powered by workflows
🧩 All declarative, all modular , designed for both power and simplicity
💻 Can be locally hosted and run

Built with love using #golang
Servflow is now open source, built to help developers move faster and prototype smarter.
Check it out, break it, improve it, go crazy

👉 @servflowio

[chinedu🦀 @chinedu_10]

Backend at scale is still CRUD. Whether using CQRS, Event Sourcing, sharded DBs, or microservices, it boils down to: Create, Read, Update, Delete.

[Anthony Alaribe {···} @tonialaribe]

Please also give Monoscope a star:
It's a Haskell-based observability platform that runs on timefusion. Formerly known as apitoolkit, but now opensource.
https://t.co/f8Sla21Ttc

[David @_davidtobi_]

https://t.co/CQPYLw3tzC

NodeJS Timeouts: The I'm Still Working, Just Not Talking to You Problem

[Julian Dumebi Duru @julian__duru]

Today is my last day as a software engineer at Moniepoint.

It’s been 10 years since I started my career at this great company. 10 years of blood, sweat, tears, and triumph. What a journey it has been!!

[Hannes Lehmann · local explainable AI @_hanneslehmann_]

And while I wanted a showcase (XOR Problem - see the papers repo - WIP), I learned about the role of glial cells and how that concept is needed for proper "monitoring" of neural cells. So today I implement the glial package. Although there was structural plasticity on plan :)

[Hannes Lehmann · local explainable AI @_hanneslehmann_]

Was quite up to speed at the beginning, until I learned that I need to seperate the synapse logic from the neuron for make clean learning and biological realistic approach. That took me some days to fix all 260 test cases (and still working)

[Hannes Lehmann · local explainable AI @_hanneslehmann_]

A week ago I got fascinated from an Idea working in my mind for a while. GO-Routines = Neurons, GO-Channels = Synapses. I have done, together with claude, some interesting progress which I capture here: https://t.co/BgAFitoh8b - if there is some interest in community, I can post my updates here regularly.