Aliu Ameen

playing with bytes. building @farmilik

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

The TiDB leaks

https://t.co/qhY3dV1RT0

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0!

https://t.co/AoiHzF2zGU

[Ryan Sael @RyanSael]

IKEA manuals, but they come to life.

I built the real BILLY instructions in 3D, so you can watch every step happen exactly as drawn. try it: https://t.co/BqCpNrpeIi

[Bremen @Rxbremen]

The boy who chose shoes over code.

— Yinka Atunde, a computer science graduate of Babcock University, saw his plans change in 2015 when delays to the NYSC programme gave him time to rethink his next steps.

— Instead of tech, he followed his love for design. He travelled to Italy for a shoemaking course with placements in Italian factories, then toured factories in China, where the pace was faster and more commercial.

—Then came the move that shocked everyone at home: back in Nigeria in 2015, he took a manual job in a local shoe factory, to the dismay of his family.

From fashion shoes to safety boots

— Yikodeen started in 2016 making fashion shoes, then a police contract pointed it toward safety footwear. Work on safety boots began in 2018, but certification and COVID slowed things down.

— The big break? Saipem, the Italian oil-services firm, tested the boots and started ordering in 2022, proving a Nigerian maker could meet strict safety standards.

— Local content helped too: Yikodeen is one of the few domestic manufacturers certified by NCDMB to supply safety footwear to the oil and gas sector. Regulation did the rest.

— Lagos State Safety Commission now inspects even small construction sites, where workers once wore flip-flops. Demand got so heavy that they had to reject all military footwear orders for lack of capacity.

Enter the money

— Aruwa Capital @AruwaCapital invested $1.5 million from its Fund II as sole investor, to buy equipment that would take capacity 10x to 2,500 pairs a day, grow corporate sales and improve efficiency.

— The investor's logic is worth noting: many of Yikodeen's corporate clients pay in dollars, a natural hedge against naira depreciation.

— Aruwa has since led a follow-on round, with the company adding an upgraded plant and specialised lines for electrical and water-hazard environments.

Ten years on

Yikodeen claims over five million pairs in ten years and capacity of 5,000 pairs daily from a 120,000 sq ft factory in Ejigbo, Lagos.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Underrated life advice: Keep a list of the people who believed in you early. The teacher who pushed you. The boss who took a chance. The friend who told you to go for it. Every now and then, reach out. Update them. And tell them just how much you appreciate what they did for you.

[🥽Derrick @software_artist]

I built an app that shows how rain floods different parts of Lagos.

Search your area and see where the water collects and how deep it gets, hour by hour, in 3D.

Lekki, VI, Ikoyi, Lagos Island, Yaba and more.

Try it: https://t.co/W1YYwaXb1u

[Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya]

Hardware looks scary until you break it down into small steps. So I built an app that takes you through Arduino one circuit at a time.

Made with Opus 5.5
https://t.co/1AL82geKtQ

[Aliu Ameen @aliu_ameen]

@TosinOlugbenga @cursor_ai codex if you are doing ui work like web or mobile. its computer use is very powerful.

claude for backend because opus 5.5 is very good.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Harsh truth nobody told you about success:

Rent is due every single day.

You never really make it. And coasting isn’t an option. Every single day, you have to fight to keep your seat at the table. Because the day you stop doing the work is the day things start to fall apart.

There's an old saying that I love:

Every morning in the savannah, the gazelle wakes up and knows it must outrun the lion or be killed. The lion wakes up and knows it must outrun the gazelle or starve. Whether you're the gazelle or the lion, when you wake up in the morning, you'd better start running.

Rent is due daily. Pay it with pride.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.

[amrit @amritwt]

I think tailscale might be the top three inventions by mankind

[36kinniun media👑 🦁 🕊 @fattylincorn_01]

“Nígbà tí Obásanjọ́ yọ ẹ̀gbà sí Atiku, tó fẹ́ nà Atiku pa, ọ̀dọ̀ mi ni Atiku sá wá.”

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

[Kemisola @Stainlesz05]

“I only found out this year that my local government chairman in Anambra State receives ₦740 million monthly from the federal government” — Belinda Uju

[Aliu Ameen @aliu_ameen]

@Real_jaeflex this just ridiculous lol.

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Starting a business isn’t a walk in the park !

It’s one of the hardest things ever

[Tola Odeyemi @tola_odeyemi]

As we take Nigeria’s Digital Postcode from infrastructure to everyday impact, I am inviting our developers, innovators, startups and technology companies to show us what is possible.

Through Build on Nigeria’s Postcode, the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, in collaboration with NIPOST and supported by 3MTT, is creating a platform for Nigerian builders to demonstrate how the postcode can power smarter solutions across logistics, commerce, banking, identity, emergency response and public services.

If you have an existing product or working prototype that uses the official NIPOST Postcode API, this is your opportunity to showcase your innovation, engage with decision-makers and explore partnerships that can take your solution further.

📅 First session: Saturday, 27 October 2026
📺 Live on YouTube
💡 Applications are free.

Apply now: https://t.co/6crGeOUHmq
#BuiltOnNigeriasPostcode #NIPOST #3MTT #DigitalInnovation

[Aliu Ameen @aliu_ameen]

@Oluwatoyin89452 @Riddwane @abdullahayofel Fashola 2.0

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.

In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.

Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: https://t.co/wzNkwHs7IN

[FARMGRIDDZ🐔🐓 @BashorunGa_]

14 weeks old POL available
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DM for Details.

[batuhan içöz @batuhan]

2026 has been about 5 years so far