Frank Oge

Software Engineer & Founder @Hackverse. 👨‍💻 Building scalable solutions across Web2, Web3. 🤖 AI Integrator. I turn problems into code | Python | Blockchain.

[Frank Oge @frankdotdev]

2025 was a year of recalibration.

Dreams were questioned.
Beliefs were tested.
Some illusions fell apart so something real could stand.

That’s not failure.
That’s alignment.

As 2026 begins, may we move with intention, not pressure.
May we build with patience, not fear.
May growth feel earned, not rushed.

Life is not a race.
It’s a long conversation between who you were and who you’re becoming.

Walk into the new year grounded, honest, and awake.
The future responds better to people who show up fully.

Here’s to clarity, resilience, and becoming
one deliberate step at a time.

#happynewyear #2026

[ajay @1meajay]

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[Titanium @akinkunmi]

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[Omo Kogi (Yagba) 🌍 @harrysone9]

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[Frank Oge @frankdotdev]

@hicasamadim 2² + 2² = 8
5² + 5² = 50
6² + 6² = 72

[Frank Oge @frankdotdev]

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[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

Netflix, Wikipedia, Airbnb, Dropbox ~ all run on the same web server.
One quiet Russian engineer wrote it alone. For free. 🤯

Meet Igor Sysoev 🇷🇺

> Russian software engineer. Born 1970 in Soviet Kazakhstan.
> Failed his first university entrance exam.
> Joined Rambler in 2000 as a system administrator.
> 2002 ~ started writing a new web server in his free time. Alone.
> Goal: handle 10,000 simultaneous users on one machine ~ a problem Apache (the dominant web server at the time) couldn't solve.
> 2004 ~ released nginx publicly. Free. Open source.
> Zero marketing. Zero PR. Just the code.
> 2008 ~ nginx was serving 500 million requests per day at Rambler.
> 2011 ~ founded Nginx Inc. with co-founder Maxim Konovalov.
> 2013 ~ Netflix scaled its streaming CDN to 40 Gbps per server using nginx.
> 2019 ~ F5 acquired the company for $670 million.
> December 2019 ~ Russian police raided his Moscow office over a fake copyright claim.
> The Russian tech community publicly defended him. Charges were dropped.🚀
> 2021 ~ nginx overtook Apache as the #1 web server on Earth.
> 2022 ~ left F5 quietly. No farewell tour. No book deal.
> Today nginx powers Netflix, Wikipedia, Airbnb, Dropbox, Cloudflare, WordPress.
> 33% of every website on Earth runs on his code. Apache trails at 26%. Microsoft's IIS isn't even close.
> Still 100% open-source. Still free.

One man wrote it alone, in his free time, for free.
He never sought publicity. He never asked for credit.
A third of every website on Earth still runs on his work.

Webserver GOAT. 🐐

[Frank Oge @frankdotdev]

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[Frank Oge @frankdotdev]

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[Peter Agboola @baba_Omoloro]

If you have VLC, you don't need Amazon Firestick.
You can watch Premier League with your VLC for £0.00

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Never quit as a founder. I’m begging you.

It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care. Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope.

Then it snaps to 100. You finally find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum keeps building even when you’re not pushing. Something changed.

You didn’t get lucky, you just didn’t leave.

[Ben Lang @benln]

YC on how to build a company with AI from the ground up:

[WorldofAI @intheworldofai]

🚨 April was absolutely insane for AI releases...

• Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic)
• GPT-5.5 (OpenAI)
• DeepSeek V4 (DeepSeek)
• Xiaomi Mimi V2.5
• Qwen3.6-Plus (Alibaba)
• GLM-5.1 (Zhipu)
• Muse Spark (Meta)
• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Alibaba)
• Grok 4.3 Beta (xAI)
• Qwen3.6-Max (Alibaba)
• Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot)
• Qwen3.6-27B (Alibaba)

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

One City For Every Stage Of Ambition:

1. Just starting out : Berlin, affordable and full of builders

2. Chasing money : Dubai or Singapore, no excuses

3. Chasing meaning : Lisbon, slow and beautiful

4. Building a startup : San Francisco or London

5. Burning out : Bali, reset and reassess

6. Going deep on craft : Tokyo, obsession is respected

7. Wanting community : Melbourne or Amsterdam

8. Craving culture : Paris or New York, forever alive

9. Seeking silence : Reykjavik or rural Japan

10. Starting over : Porto or Medellín, underrated and alive

11. Arrived : wherever feels like home

12. Testing independence : Bangkok, fast life with low cost

13. Building discipline : Zurich, structure and precision

14. Exploring creativity : Barcelona, art and expression everywhere

15. Finding balance : Vancouver, work and nature together

16. Reinventing identity : Los Angeles, endless second chances

17. Learning hustle : Mumbai, fast pace and real competition

18. Building resilience : New Delhi, chaos builds strength

19. Expanding network : Hong Kong, global connections

20. Living minimal : Copenhagen, simple and intentional life

21. Thinking big : Shanghai, scale changes mindset

22. Finding peace : Kyoto, calm and tradition

23. Chasing adventure : Cape Town, raw and alive

24. Building focus : Seoul, discipline and drive

25. Rediscovering self : Prague, quiet and reflective

Every city teaches something different. Go when ready.

[Ogochukwu ❤️ @TheEmmalez]

I still remember something a woman told me shortly after I got married, advice I haven’t forgotten to this day.

She said, “Start saving your own money quietly. Right now, your husband is still in the excitement of a new marriage. He’ll want to prove his love, give you anything you ask for… but that won’t last forever. Men change.”

At first, it sounded wise. Even convincing.
But deep down, it didn’t sit right with me, so I discarded it immediately.

You see, I was just a third-year university student when I got married. I had no job and no income of my own. Yet, within days of our wedding, my husband made me a signatory to all his accounts.

Think about that for a moment… How many people would do that?

If this man could trust me so openly and completely, why should I begin my marriage by secretly setting money aside? Why should I plant seeds of doubt where trust had already been freely given?

So I chose a different path, one built on openness, trust, and sincerity.

Sadly, my then adviser is now a divorcee.

Today, I share this not to judge anyone but to remind someone out there: Not all advice—especially about marriage—is meant for you. No matter who it comes from—friends, family, counselors, or even well-known voices; relationship therapists; Blessing CEO, etc.— You must understand the uniqueness of your own home.
What works for one marriage may not work for another. There is no one-size-fits-all formula, though there are some bases.

In my humble opinion, marriage should be a place of transparency—where nothing, not even finances, is hidden from each other.

Build your home on trust, not fear.

Christy

[Kevin Simback 🍷 @KSimback]

🚀 Want FREE models you can plug into OpenClaw or Hermes?

Here are 9 resources you can use for free access to model APIs

No local setup, no credit card, just pure cloud APIs with OpenAI-compatible endpoints

You can’t get free Opus quality (yet) but all of these have genuine free tiers right now (rate limits may apply) and are good enough to get started if you don’t want to spend $ to get started with agents

1️⃣ OpenRouter Free Models

(Gemma 4 31B/26B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B MoE, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen3 variants, Llama 4/3.3, gpt-oss-120B, Arcee Trinity, etc.)
• ~29 completely free $0/M token models
• Insane variety + top-tier open model evals (especially coding & agents)
• Best for rotating models automatically
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2️⃣ Google Gemini API

(Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash series)
• Strongest overall free frontier model
• Excellent multimodal, 1M+ context, native tool calling & agentic performance
• Very generous free limits (often 5–15 RPM)
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3️⃣ NVIDIA

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• Optimized high-performance open models
• Free prototyping tier (~40 RPM)
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4️⃣ Grok Cloud

(Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 32B, gpt-oss models, etc.)
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6️⃣ Mistral La Plateforme
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• Strong in coding, multilingual & agentic tasks
• Solid free tier (~1 req/s, ~1B tokens/month)
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7️⃣ Cohere
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• Free tier: 20 RPM, 1K requests/month
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8️⃣ GitHub Models
(Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek R1, some GPT-4o previews, etc.)
• Decent mid-tier evals with easy GitHub integration
• Free tier limits (10–15 RPM)
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9️⃣ Cloudflare Workers AI
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• Lightweight but solid for simple agents
• Free tier: 10K neurons/day
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Pro tips for agent builders:

• Most work instantly with OpenAI SDK (just change base URL + your key)
• Start with OpenRouter for quality/variety (they often feature new free models)
• Add Groq as speed fallback
• Rotate providers when you hit caps

Free intelligence for your agent is just a signup away!

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION

01) A person who knows everything → Omniscient
02) One who speaks less → Reticent
03) One who believes in God → Theist
04) A person who is above hundred years → Centenarian
05) One who loves mankind → Philanthropist
06) One who is unable to pay his debts → Insolvent
07) One who knows many languages → Polyglot
08) One who is indifferent to pleasure or pain → Stoic
09) One who looks on the bright side of things → Optimist
10) One who eats too much → Glutton
11) A list of books → Catalogue
12) A handwriting that cannot be read → Illegible
13) People living at the same time → Contemporaries
14) One who believes in Fate → Fatalist
15) One who looks on the dark side of things → Pessimist
16) A person difficult to please → Fastidious
17) A book written by an unknown author → Anonymous
18) A thing that is fit to be eaten → Edible
19) Work for which no salary is paid → Honorary
20) A person who cannot read or write → Illiterate
21) A thing no longer in use → Obsolete
22) An office with high salary but no work → Sinecure
23) One who loves books → Bibliophile

[pulkit mittal @pulkit_mittal_]

As a Senior Backend Developer,

Punch yourself hard if you cannot explain at least 10 of these:

Threads vs processes
Context switching and its cost
Race conditions
Critical sections
Mutual exclusion (mutex, locks)
Deadlocks (and detection, prevention, avoidance)
Livelocks vs starvation
Thread safety and reentrancy
Atomic operations and CAS (Compare-And-Swap)
Memory visibility and ordering
Happens-before relationship
Volatile vs synchronized (or language equivalents)
Thread pools and executor frameworks
Futures, promises, async/await
Producer-consumer pattern
Blocking vs non-blocking synchronization
Lock-free and wait-free algorithms
Read-write locks vs exclusive locks
Semaphore vs latch vs barrier

[Cigano @Cigano300]

2021 WWE Tryouts (Las Vegas) ➡️ 2026 WrestleMania (Las Vegas)

It's been incredible to follow Oba's journey from the start.

[WWE @WWE]

OBA! OBA! OBA! 🤩

@Obaofwwe

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Little girl bows to thank every driver who waited as she crossed the street with her dad in a wheelchair