daniel benjamin

engineer

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

The world is mine to take

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

I can feel myself get depressed, I just pray this one doesn't last so long.

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

There is a woman that sells goat meat here at really cheap price, please can someone point me to her handle?

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

When you leave an HFT, they put you on a non-compete for 1 or even 2 years! This is the biggest gift from HFTs to open source world.

Aman Gupta is being paid by Jump Trading (to sit at home) just added multi-token prediction to llama.cpp which speeds up local LLM models by 2x

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

LeetCode but for Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and Networking problems? 🤔

245 hands-on challenges (over half are free) based on real-world scenarios that come with:

- Preconfigured environments
- Automated verification
- Hints and editorial solutions

https://t.co/ZTwhoT3YZx

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

The best way to understand how servers actually work is to write a couple of them from scratch. I prepared a series of exercises that help you get started with socket programming in C, Python, and Go:

- Write a TCP client for a telemetry server https://t.co/OH9JHuE81i

- Write a TCP client for a chat server https://t.co/ukwPsC9bCb

- Write a TCP echo server from scratch https://t.co/yZTvQoId63

- Make one echo server work with both TCP and Unix sockets https://t.co/D2ot5e7tJn

Happy hacking!

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

I won’t touch prisma with a 12 inch pole.

[Tosin Olugbenga @TosinOlugbenga]

Which database ORM is your favorite?

Prisma? Or?

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

I was on a call with a friend when he told me he was hearing them shout outside, and he was worried. Coming online to see this is just weird

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

Unconfirmed reports claim that the sister and children of APC governorship aspirant and former Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu (Penkelemesi), have been k%dnapped around the Elewura area of Ibadan, Oyo State. Authorities are yet to issue an official statement on the incident.

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

@pipe_dev Brooo prisma showed me shege man. Something about napi some years ago. Since I started using drizzle my life became a lot easier

[Mark @Marknit0]

If Adeboye calls out Tinubu directly, that's goodbye to 20% of SW voters, they all know this.

[Isiego.. @Isiego_]

Do you all know what’s funny?? 😂😂 That church will probably think what’s happening to their founder is persecution of the saints😂😂. Saint Paul of APC.

[Danish Hussain @astrodanish]

In most professions, when you hit the 90th percentile in technical skill, the best use of your time is getting 90th percentile soft skills

the best barbers are therapists

the best photographers are comedians

the best engineers are iconoclastic cult leaders that inspire their team with a vision nobody else can see, and even fewer can beleive

stop maxing out your CAD skills, and start dreaming bigger!

[V.I.C👨‍💻 @VIC_kutz]

This one shook me to my core 💔
Nigeria has many ways of failing its people… and this is one of the cruelest.

Meet Gospel Uabari Kinanee. In 2007, he was just 14 years old. He left home to play football with friends and never came back.

For months, his family turned Rivers State upside down. Hospitals, police stations, morgues — they checked everywhere. No Gospel.

The search broke them. His parents sold their land, their property, everything they had to find their son. The pain and stress was too much. Eventually, both of them died from heartbreak 💔

The world assumed Gospel was dead too. Years passed. 18 long years.

Then in 2025, out of nowhere, his older brother got a call: “We found your brother. He’s in a correctional facility in Rivers State.”

For 18 years, Gospel had been locked up. A 14-year-old boy who went out to play.

When they asked for his case file, there was nothing. No charges. No court record. No reason for his arrest. Just a child… forgotten behind bars.

The worst part? Gospel lost himself in there. His mind couldn’t carry the weight. He doesn’t recognize his brother. He can’t explain how he ended up in prison. The boy who left home to play ball is now a man who can’t remember his own story 😢

How does a child disappear into the system for 18 years without a case?
How many more “Gospels” are wasting away in prison right now for nothing?

This is not just his story. This is a wake-up call for all of us.

Nigeria, how do we fix this? How many innocent lives are we still losing to silence and broken systems? Talk to me

#JusticeForGospel

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

We have not seen destruction on this scale before.

The lower class have been obliterated. They have all been pushed below the poverty line. N55m more Nigerians pushed below the poverty line since Tinubu became president.

The middle class are in the lower class now.

Vote NDC.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[daniel benjamin @papidb]

@aeroplaneturkey That jacket clean. Who run am for you.

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

Mrs. Alamu Folawe – Principal

Mr. Ojo Jonathan – Vice Principal

Mr. Olatunde Zacchaeus – Teacher

Mr. John Olaleye – Teacher

Mr. Michael Oyedokun – Teacher RIP

Mrs. Oladeji – Teacher

Mary Akanbi – Teacher

Mr Adesiyan Adegboye - RIP

@officialABAT #BringBackOurTeachers

[DevPool @DevPoolX]

Just wanting to give a huge shout out to @iximiuz .

Cracked a high paying job in platform engineering.

Was able to demonstrate real devops skills during interview.

[Rust Bytes 🦀 @rustaceans_rs]

Microsoft merged Windows Reactor: a React-style declarative UI library for WinUI 3 in Rust with hooks, components, and excellent performance.

#rustlang #rust

[Big Smoke - @Skepta]

How much suffering is enough? @officialABAT

[Effect | TypeScript for the AI Era @EffectTS_]

How does @opencode use Effect?

In this talk, @thdxr shares how they use Effect across their codebase, from schemas and services to tracing, and more!

Video link in reply ⤵️