Shambala

Author, Developer, Engineer, Artiste.
CTO@ , CTO@ CEO @ AfrikanSquare

[Shambala @being__47]

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[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

The best programmers I ever meet have one thing in common. Has nothing to do with what school they went to or when they started coding…

They all had such a strong autistic interest to build something they didn’t give a fuck what it took.

They had a religious level of motivation to make it happen. Terry Davis is the arch type example.

But I literally know a guy who wanted to make a mod to a video game he played so he can add teleportation portals and ended up learning all the physics of a game engine and C++ on his own….

He had no exposure to programming or math beyond high school level before this.

[m̃ @hexesandspell]

Lock in so hard the universe rearranges itself around your frequency.

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

We confess our little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.

– La Rochefoucauld

[🦉 🧘🏽‍♂️spiRituaL🧘🏽‍♂️ @spiRiituaL]

The only option we have is to believe in ourselves, even when there is no evidence that we are going to make it.

Because the only thing standing between the life we have and the life we were born to live is our determination to see the finish line… and cross the finish line.

Believe in yourself so deeply that even rejection cannot bury you.

It is a mental thing.

#FireUp.

[Robinson Honour @honour_can_code]

btw my startup without funding or loan
currently earns me 2x of my salary monthly.

positioning matters.

[Behemoth @ChiefBehemoth_]

First, you must ruthlessly prune away all filler words from your speech, lest you be deemed unrefined, disorderly in thought.

Then, you must intentionally sprinkle them back in, lest you be deemed untrustworthy, like a rehearsed conman.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Man, there is nothing...absolutely nothing..that will fuel you more than anger at something.

You want to succeed? Don't be afraid to be angry.

Be angry at your poverty, your terrible life, at injustice you felt, at whatever it is...and channel that into a monster of success.

[Natism @his4Everz]

The truest rebels I know have nearly psychopathic level of obedience to their intuition and their souls.

[𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖞 𝖛𝖘 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖓 @mary_got_grace]

They put you through the gauntlet and you mastered the whole game.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

care about your own becoming with an intensity that would embarrass most people. that embarrassment is exactly why they never get anywhere. they are too self conscious to be caught wanting their own life this badly. let yourself be caught. there is nothing shameful about refusing to be lukewarm toward the only life you were given.

[Ìlérí⚡️ @pipe_dev]

If you deny using AI in your code, I feel you have a self esteem problem.

At first you might fight it, but slowly and surely

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

ignoring the social hierarchy and treating everyone the same will make people hate your guts

[Daniel Adetona @daniel_adetona]

once you unlearn shame you become invincible.

[Jesseline @artemisgrl]

there is a grace that only shows up after you have humiliated yourself completely, which is probably why so few people ever find it

[Daniels James @dreeals]

This advice is for everyone if any huge money comes to you, doesn’t have to be life changing. Please don’t rush to think you know the important things to buy and purchase, give it a few days if possible a week.. I promise you, you will make better use of it

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

There is a false tribal narrative being circulated claiming that we dropped a Yoruba child to replace him with an Igbo child for the International STEM Olympiad in Rome.

That claim is completely false.

This is the full live stream of the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad Grand Finale, where the winners emerged. Our selection process was conducted publicly because we believe transparency is the best way to protect integrity.

We deliberately stream our competitions live so everyone can see how winners are determined. Our goal is simple: ensure that the right children win based on merit, not ethnicity, religion, connections or influence.

We are building a generation that believes hard work is rewarded. Merit is not negotiable.

Watch the full Afia TV live broadcast and judge the process for yourself: https://t.co/hByUPQkdQv

Nigeria's children deserve better than tribal propaganda. They deserve fairness.

[AvantPrince_ @AvantPrince_]

A winner is popular, jacked, very socially skilled, light, good looking, got cash/cash flow, competence in many domains, knows powerful people at both sides of society, has location independence due to lofty remote income, multiple vehicles, multiple licenses, insured on multiple vehicles in differen countries (Even if he never needs it, it's there) has perpetual layers of both defense and offense across every area and most importantly, is humble and hard working

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