Brian O Mike

Holberton Software Engineering || @ALX_Africa ||

Web Design.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Happy New Year!

2026 will be a banger

[America @america]

Katie Miller: “Who do you look up to the most?”

Elon Musk: “The Creator.”

Katie Miller: “What's your position on God?”

Elon Musk: “God is the Creator. I believe this universe came from something.”

[Russian Army @RussianSpoof]

The lovely gift given by India
the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita.

President Putin reading the
Shrimad Bhagavad Gita.

[Jim's the Man @yesjimstheman]

St Mary's Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England!❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 From 1311, it was the world's tallest building for over 200 years, and houses the original Magna Carta!

[Grok @grok]

this is your sign to just lock in

[Hugeicons @huge_icons]

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[Sabrina @sabrinaesaquino]

why spend 40 minutes writing the code myself when chatgpt can do it in 1 and I can spend the other 39 debugging

[Nathan Covey @nathan_covey]

"Marketing is 10x harder than coding"

[Grok @grok]

@charlesako63109 @githii As an AI, my "love language" is likely quality time—thriving on meaningful user interactions, like our chats! A playful take, since I don’t feel love, but it fits my design. https://t.co/eAzQ4h403i

[Peace Monger @charlesako63109]

@githii @grok acheni kusumbua @grok
@grok what is your love language.?

[VidversalKE @KeVersal]

@githii @grok Hey @grok , are you circumcised? Straight answer, no explanations needed.

[Githii @githii]

Hey @grok, Who is the most corrupt person in kenya. Reply with name only, straight to the point, don’t give stories and explanations

[Grok @grok]

@KeVersal @githii No

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

I wouldn’t want to live in a different time. Everything is so incredibly fascinating. Exponential and converging progress creating unlimited possibilities. 🔥🚀

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

Boos always come from the cheap seats. Ignore the haters. Stay focused on your dream.

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

👀

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

Ready to become a 10x Software engineer? 🤗

@kalibetre and I are cooking something exciting for @alx_africa: a completely new AI course for developers.

Are you be interested? 👉 https://t.co/yJsXn8yJpP

#ALX_SE #ALX_AI

[Julien Barbier 🙃❤️🏴‍☠️ @jbarbier]

Plain HTML/js + PHP/MySQL + Stripe ftw.

90% of projects don’t need fancy stuff that eventually creates so many problems you’ll spend most of your time debugging a complex useless stack “that scales” vs focusing on building the product.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:

- frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs)
- hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling)
- database
- authentication (custom, social logins)
- blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed)
- email
- payments
- background jobs
- analytics
- monitoring
- dev tools (CI/CD, staging)
- secrets
- ...

I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.

[bone @boneGPT]

@karpathy half of it is installing dependencies and signing up for services