Joshua Paul

Software Engineer

[Povilas Korop | Laravel & AI Coding Educator @PovilasKorop]

New Laravel package!

cybernerdie/glint: Laravel-native LLM observability, traces, cost tracking, latency, errors, and alerts for your AI calls https://t.co/eTuzlicyon

[Precious @localhost_101]

Today is my birthday and I worked on perfecting the analytics of @post_spread

[Joshua Paul @cybernerdie]

@localhost_101 @post_spread Happy birthday chief

[PHP Talks @PhpTalks]

PHPConnect 2026 has a theme.

"AI and the Engineer"

Not AI vs the engineer. Not AI without the engineer. The messier question in between.

October 3rd. Fully online. Free. Streamed live from our studio to the world. 🐘

#PHPConnect2026 #AIandTheEngineer

[Movez @0xMovez]

Andrew Ng just dropped a 3-hour course on how to become an AI Engineer in 2026:

• 00:00 - How to build agentic AI systems
• 04:25 - Future of AI engineering
• 23:38 - AI Prompting full course
• 2:52:17 - Creating an app with AI in 30 minutes

This 3-hour watch could replace 10 AI engineering courses on the internet.

Watch it today, then read how to run a self-improving system in the article below.

[Joshua Paul @cybernerdie]

@localhost_101 Nah; I’ve not written specifically on this, but there is an article from @escobyte where he buttressed this, I also believe the claim because I’ve also been writing 99% of my code with LLMs, you can find the article here https://t.co/mzL4tnTnq0

[Joshua Paul @cybernerdie]

The Tragedy of Delayed Gratitude https://t.co/6W7dI0OBnp

[Imoh Essien @theimohessien]

@Zlatan_Ibile I run @languageenclave, where we teach French 🇫🇷, German 🇩🇪, Chinese 🇨🇳, and Spanish 🇪🇸 to kids, adults, and corporate organizations. Our website is https://t.co/mnLedOyZBY

We’ll be glad to help you achieve your language goals, @Zlatan_Ibile

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 Someone reverse-engineered the design systems of Apple, Spotify, Airbnb, and 30+ billion-dollar companies.

Packed each one into a single file. Free.

It's called Awesome Design MD.

Drop one file into your project. Your AI agent builds UI that looks like Spotify. Or Apple. Or Airbnb. Instantly.

Not screenshots. Not Figma links. A single DESIGN .md file that captures every color, font, spacing value, button style, and layout pattern from a real website. In a format AI agents read and reproduce.

Here's the difference:

Tell Claude Code "build me a landing page" and it gives you generic UI.

Tell Claude Code "build me a landing page" with Spotify's DESIGN .md in your project and it gives you Spotify.

Here's what's inside:

→ Apple. Premium white space, SF Pro typography, cinematic imagery.
→ Spotify. Vibrant green on dark, bold type, album-art-driven layout.
→ Airbnb. Warm coral accent, photography-driven, rounded UI.
→ Linear. Ultra-minimal, precise spacing, purple accent.
→ SpaceX. Stark black and white, full-bleed imagery, futuristic.
→ BMW. Dark premium surfaces, precise German engineering aesthetic.
→ NVIDIA. Green-black energy, technical power aesthetic.
→ Uber. Bold black and white, tight type, urban energy.
→ Sentry, PostHog, Raycast, Cursor, ElevenLabs, and 20+ more.

Here's how to use it:

→ Pick a design system from the collection
→ Copy the DESIGN .md file into your project root
→ Tell your AI agent to use it
→ Get UI that matches the design language of a billion-dollar company

That's it. One file. Your AI agent now has the design taste of a $200/hour design consultant.

Designers charge $5,000+ for a custom design system. Companies spend $50,000+ building one from scratch.

This is free. 31 design systems. Copy. Paste. Ship beautiful UI.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and any AI coding agent that reads project files.

100% Open Source. MIT License.

[Smart👨‍💻 | Software Engineer @smartnakamoura]

A Nigerian startup launched their app. Built a clean OTP flow. No rate limiting on the SMS endpoint. Shipped it.

Within 48 hours, their Termii balance went from ₦150,000 to zero.

They woke up to failed OTP delivery complaints from real users.
Checked their logs.

Someone had been hitting their /send-otp endpoint in a loop with thousands of requests sending SMS to sequential phone numbers that were not even their users.

This is called SMS pumping fraud.
Here is how it works:
• Fraudsters find your open OTP endpoint
• They send requests to thousands of phone numbers, sometimes numbers they control on premium routes
• Every successful SMS costs you money
• They get a cut from the carrier. You get the bill.

It is automated. It runs while you sleep.

The fixes that would have stopped it entirely:
• Rate limit by IP: max 3 OTP requests per IP per hour
• Rate limit by phone number: max 3 requests per number per 10 minutes
• Add a minimum delay between requests
• Implement CAPTCHA or device fingerprinting on the frontend
• Alert yourself when SMS spend spikes above a threshold

None of this is complicated.
All of it takes less than a day to implement.

That startup lost ₦150,000 in two days and had to shut down OTP entirely while they fixed it.

Their users thought the app was broken.
Some never came back.

The breach was not dramatic.
No hacker. No sophisticated attack.
Just an open endpoint and a bot.

Secure your OTP flow before you launch.
Not after you've learned the hard way.

[Zorvia @usezorvia]

When engagement is done right, it does not just drive attention, it drives revenue.

Improve your business revenue with a tool that helps keep your customers engaged.

Visit https://t.co/pEpeX1IRcl to get started.

[Joshua Paul @cybernerdie]

@phpstorm @nativephp

[PHP Talks @PhpTalks]

We have exciting news 🙌 from the Co-creator of NativePHP, @simonhamp .

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[NativePHP @nativephp]

We just gave away $1 Million worth of Max licenses

[Piktochart @piktochart]

✨ It’s here. The future of design just got smarter.

Meet Pikto AI Studio, where your ideas turn into visuals, faster than ever.

Your smarter way to design starts today.

[oxo @jjarthur121]

8 hours after I’m still here, no arrest, no passport no feedback just pure wickedness, how long will it take to verify if I have a twin and I’m using his passport.

Just give me back my passport and let me go back to my country.

@Rwandamigration

[Baba Adele @kadetxxx]

This needs more attention.

@RwandaGov and @flyethiopian

If you see this, Please help RT

[ZΛRΛ @isaaczara_]

Career Update:

Excited to announce that I will be joining one of biggest advertising-tech company in New York as a brand designer.

Can’t wait to drive growth through brand and marketing design alongside my amazing team!

[Favour Chibueze 🌻🌻 @FavourChi__]

Exciting news! 🎊

I've been nominated for the @CMX Community Industry Award 2025 in the Nonprofit Community Professional category for my work with @dev_careers, empowering tech talent in Africa!

Please vote 👉 https://t.co/2PCJ50T6Ye & share!

#CMXAwards2025 #Community