Usman Dan'Iya

chronically curious,a student of everything and a collector of perspectives

[Thεό Abu @TheoAbuAgada]

God should just bless someone please.
This is face me I face you pro max.

[Wale Adeyemo @ceo_wale]

There are bugs that only users will catch, no matter how many internal tests you run.

[Tonami Playman @TonamiPlayman]

Nigerian public officials, when doing public housing, emulate what Egypt is doing in the QT and not the land wasting atrocity of bungalows to thy kingdom come in this image.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Once people begin to talk of cows in response to the current spate of kidnappings in Nigeria you just know they have no idea what they are talking about. The current kidnapping and terrorism has nothing to do with cows or grazing. None of the militants currently kidnapping people care about cows or grazing. These are gangs of people who have not herded cattle in years. Some have never herded cattle in their lives. This is not a clash between communities and herders. This is a terror and militancy issue funded and driven by political actors (who have now lost control of the monster they created). In fact legitimate herders themselves and other Fulanis are currently getting kidnapped too. These militants also steal cattle from herders.

You can ban open grazing today and they will still be with their guns in the forests. (Of course there is no reason to still have open grazing today. It is an outdated and dangerous practice -- dangerous for communities, dangerous for the herders and bad for the health of the cattle.)

Nigerian governors and politicians contributed in arming many of those groups for their own ends. Some have been armed for politics/elections, some for illegal mining, some for controlling local communities and fighting local opponents. Those men who were armed, some as far back as 10+ years ago, are now independent and totally out of control. We are way past the issue of grazing rights. That should certainly be tackled but this is a whole new dimension to the insecurity plaguing the country.
(We are not even talking of the Islamist/jihadist groups who are a different set of militants with different goals and modes of operation.)

[Bashir El-Rufai @BashirElRufai]

Whomever cracks the transportation system in Abuja & models a business around solely that challenge will become a very rich person. Every single day hundreds , if not thousands of the workforce of the city that also journey from satellite towns are by the sidelines hustling to squeeze into cars clearly not road-worthy. The demand is there & as the city continually expands that demand will become insatiable.

I am not into commerce o but it just seems a solution is there to such a city problem.

[K.O.O @Dominus_Kelvin]

Young startups do not need a DevOps specialist.

A cracked senior or mid-level fullstack engineer can handle deployment, CI/CD, servers, monitoring, databases, and shipping the product.

Most startups are hiring for complexity they have not encountered yet.

[Usman Dan'Iya @uidaniya]

This whole situation could have been avoided by using a simple email verification process

[JAMB @jamb_hq]

@OPEYEMIBAB31192, she should create the 'wrong email' supplied during registration and take charge of it.

[Jobs with Aramide @AramideOyekunle]

As a Nigerian Earning 600k... You might not be able to afford a Car especially if you dont work from home.

As a Nigerian earning 400k... You will likely be needing AJO to pay your rent.

As a Nigerian earning 250k... You will be needing Ajo to buy chair in your apartment. 😩

[Chief 🇵🇸 智人 @NWali_X]

I've always said this;
The major and almost only reason many of us are able to have a semblance of middle class life is the Chinese, from affordable Devices (phones, computers, TVs, 'Cars, etc) on an individual level to Infrastructural investment in roads, bridges, ports, rail, Solar plants, gas plants etc on a societal level to jobs, skill transfer, credit etc are the Chinese. We in Africa owe a lot to the Chinese that we don't realise.

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

A security researcher opened a Nigerian fintech app on a random Wednesday.

No agenda. No target. Just curiosity.

He gave himself one hour.

In 60 minutes, he found 4 critical vulnerabilities.

Each one worse than the last.

[Nana Yaw Architect 🇩🇪🇹🇷🇬🇭 @Yaw_Ridwan]

The most dangerous person in a tech company is not the junior dev who doesn't know enough. It's the senior leaders who don't know enough but too proud to admit it.

Our CTO a very smart dude, had an Oxford PhD in chemistry, but zero software development experience.

I was the Technical Lead reporting to him.

We were to build a medical device software plus a corresponding medical device that was used to detect bacteria in patient bio sample(blood, urine etc) in near "real time" (apps 30 min)

[Murad @elfaisaal]

This is misleading, BBC Hausa.

FACT:

1. The first known ruler of Kano Kingdom is "Bagauda."

2. The first Muslim ruler of Kano is Sarki Ali Yaji (ruled 1349–1385). He introduced Islam as a state religion.

3. The first Fulani emir of Kano was Sarki Suleiman. (ruled 1807-1819).

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

A Nigerian engineer once told me something I haven’t stopped thinking about.
He said, “The day I got my offer letter from Amsterdam, my colleague reported me to HR.”

I asked him why.

He said, “Because I was about to earn in one month what he’d earned in three years.”

Then he said, “And the worst part? I understood him.”

[Roman @romxdev]

Unpopular opinion: React completely destroyed web development

We spent a decade learning a highly complex library just to reinvent server-side rendering all over again

[Akóh 🎴 @ManLikeAkoh]

Adding NELFUND as achievement, when 5 years ago nobody needed that to go to University.

Sick people.

[Hussein Nasser @hnasr]

Code with fewer lines is not always simple code.

Fewer lines of code often indicate an abstraction.

Abstractions are not inherently simple; they create the illusion of simplicity.

They don’t remove complexity—they hide it.

This hidden complexity can cause engineers to lower their guard.

Eventually, abstractions leak this complexity to end users in unexpected ways:

Often in the form of performance issues, latency, or high CPU and memory usage.

Deep down, we know this.

Wrap a large block of code in a function call, and the client code appears simple.
But we know it’s not.

Put that function in a library and ship it.
Now, only you know the true nature of the code.
The developers using it don’t.

Those devs build more software and libraries on top of it, creating further illusions of simplicity.

The same applies to frameworks, client libraries, APIs or even languages.

The best performance comes from fully understanding the intricacies and complexities of a system—
And tuning them to your specific use case.

Abstractions are most powerful when we understand what lies behind them.

Use them, but never let your guard down.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sorry, what? Being a civilian at a civilian site is normal. What’s banned under the Geneva Convention is deliberately bombing civilian sites, especially those indispensable to everyday life.

[Bello Shagari @Belshagy]

When you leave your people uneducated and deliberately uninformed simply because you want to manipulate them, a time will come when your enemies will manipulate them against you.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

I remember in Gaza, Israel sent a Palestinian prisoner to ask people to leave a hospital before they flatten it. Told him to come back or they blow it up with everyone in it.

The guy went and found his mother also stuck in the hospital. Passed the message and started going back to the IDF soldiers.

Halfway on the way a sniper shot him in the head.
His mother witnessed it. The video is also available.

His work was done.