Timi

Certified AWS Solution Architect & Cloud Practitioner | Web Programmer | Mobile Developer(flutter) | Graduate (Funaab)

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

Once you learn how to shop directly from China, E.g Temù or shien your wardrobe changes completely. Call me cheap I don't care I ain't rich, I don't do fraud.😭

It's knowing what to search for.

Here's my style after making plenty of mistakes.

1. T-shirts:

Skip 100% polyester unless you're buying gym wear.

Instead, search:
• 100% Cotton
• Combed Cotton
• Heavyweight Cotton
• 240-300 GSM Cotton
• Premium Cotton
• Mercerized Cotton

The heavier the GSM, the thicker and more premium the shirt usually feels.

2. Jeans:

Denim Jeans
Temu is surprisingly good for denim if you know what to search.

Search:
• Denim Jeans
• Cotton Denim
• Raw Denim
• Selvedge Denim (if available)
• 98% Cotton + 2% Elastane
• 99% Cotton

Avoid jeans with high polyester content. The more cotton, the better they'll age and feel.

3. Body-hug clothing:

Search:
• Ribbed Knit
• Modal
• Viscose Blend
• Cotton-Spandex Blend

They hold their shape much better than cheap polyester.

4. Hoodies
Search:
• 400 GSM
• French Terry
• Cotton Fleece
• Heavyweight Hoodie

5. Chains
Search:
• 316L Stainless Steel
• Titanium Steel
• PVD Gold Plated
• Vacuum Plated

These are far more resistant to fading than ordinary fashion jewelry.

6. Earrings
Search:
• 925 Sterling Silver
• 316L Stainless Steel
• Hypoallergenic
• Moissanite (if you're buying stones)

7. Scarves
Search:
• Mulberry Silk
• Silk Blend
• Cashmere Blend
• Wool Blend
• Viscose

Avoid the shiny, thin polyester scarves if you're after a premium look.

8. Loafers
Search:
• Genuine Leather
• Cow Leather
• Full Grain Leather (rare but worth looking for)
• Rubber Outsole

9. Sneakers
Search:
• Rubber Outsole
• EVA Midsole
• Breathable Mesh
• Leather Upper
• Stitched Sole

Pictures lie a lot

The description usually tells the truth.

Here's how I shop:

1. Read the material composition before anything else.

2. Sort by Most Orders or Best Selling, not cheapest.

3. Only buy products with lots of reviews or pictures or even better when a Nigerian has purchased it before they always tell the truth.

4. Read the 1-star reviews first. They'll tell you what the seller won't.

5. Look at customer photos, not the product photos.

6. Check the weight of the product. Better quality clothing is often heavier.

7. Read the size chart. Don't assume your Nigerian size matches.

8. If the title has words like "luxury," "premium," or "designer" but the material is 100% polyester, not everything but still move on.

Your best friend isn't the product picture.

It's the material, the reviews, and the customer photos.

That's how you separate the gems from the junk.

I hope this help.

Things are to expensive for a country this poor.

[Jossy @Jossyluv04]

I only see my goal… I don’t believe in failure 😝

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

I hate the process of being a beginner at something I want to be good at everything right away

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

“I want to study cybersecurity”

Mfs when it’s time to study networking: https://t.co/agsipIjfTF

[Saira @AiWithSaira]

You’re bored because you don’t do side quests, bro.

Life is more than just work and bed rotting.

Here are 50 side quests to complete:

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

I am some people

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

@Faksback666 The instruction is to remove the whole panel and replace with a material of your choice.

[CONFESSION TRAILS @Softnessa_]

Sometimes male anger at ‘women getting special treatment’ reminds me of a gorilla experiment.
One gorilla gets a banana every hour. The females next to him get one every four hours. Then someone decides to be ‘fairer’ and gives the females a banana every two hours instead. The original gorilla? He flips out. He’s still getting his banana every hour, but it feels like a loss because his advantage shrank.
That’s how a lot of men react to basic fairness for women: not as justice, but as theft.

[Arika @Arikalabs]

docker was invented because a developer got tired of saying "it works on my machine" and decided to just ship his entire machine to production.

[Viraj Kawa 🇮🇳 @Kviraj722]

Under the hood, the image is still end-to-end encrypted just like normal media. It gets uploaded to WhatsApp’s servers and downloaded by the recipient in the usual encrypted way. The difference is in the metadata and how the client handles it. The message carries a “view once” flag, so the app knows to treat it differently.

When the receiver opens it, the app decrypts and displays the image from temporary storage instead of saving it permanently. After it’s viewed, the client marks it as consumed, deletes the local encrypted file, and the server invalidates further access to that media reference. So it’s not that the image self-destructs in some sci-fi way, it’s that access gets revoked after the first authorized view.

At the end of the day, it’s controlled state + strict client behavior layered on top of regular encrypted media delivery. The real enforcement happens in the app logic, not in the image itself.

[preye🤎 @tessysmitha]

Watching Kdrama is a form of therapy. I can’t begin to explain the comfort it gives me
It not a competition of how many you’ve watched or how long you been watching.
The most important thing is having a world to escape to when you want to silence your sadness , fears and reality.

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

coding is addictive, especially when it’s not working.

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

@BombasticLyn But why?😩

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

@IMPACT__LORD I’m interested

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

Well, I just incurred a service charge from AWS because I forgot a service was running, it’s like I don’t learn my lesson😩

AWS, do you accept installment payments?😩😩

[Kiprotich @Kiprotich_DK]

Me after telling them I have 5 years of experience as a database administrator in the CV

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

@KLASSIQTUNEZ Well this didn’t come as a surprise to those who read the books.

Btw the book became a bit boring after we knew who LW is

[Timi @TechQueenTimi]

All good until you have a dream you’ve fixed the bug but you wake up and can’t remember why exactly you changed and you’re still stuck!

[Vivo @vivoplt]

last night was unable to solve a bug. tried claude, gemini, deepseek all failed. slept thinking will debug tomorrow.

had a weird dream. In my dream, was debugging the code and finally was able to find the bug, it was just a one line fix.

Finally woke up tired thinking did I really solve the bug or not. opened my codebase, changed that very line and the code worked.

how is this possible? what do I call this type of coding? dream-fix coding?

[Dura,coco money🎀 @ms0nigghaz]

This is the lowest I’ll ever be financially in life! From here, it’s only up, no stagnancy, no setbacks!!

[Vloid🦋⃣| Jaden @Vloid_]

I’m not gonna lie. Once you decide to start studying for a certification, the FIRST thing you should do is search it up on reddit.