Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.
I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.
I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.
I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.
My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦♂️
At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.
Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.
You’re a Nigerian youth ( probably in your late 30s) no job , no car
And there are kids abroad as young as 16 getting jobs ( customer service jobs , even McDonalds) they’re able to buy their first car
And you want me to convince you on why you should vote Tinubu out ?? You’re even on here doing on your mandate you shall stand ?!
Are you not ashamed of yourself? Think about your life tonight before you sleep .
Just finished implementing pre-signed URL uploads using Cloudflare R2 as my object storage solution. I connected it through their AWS-compatible SDK and integrated the upload flow directly into my user profile update page.
Great question.
When you store passwords, you don't store them directly (that would be unsafe). Instead, you "hash" them. It is hashing that turns "password123" into something like "a7f8k2m9x4".
The problem is, if two people use "password123", they both get the same hash result. Hackers know this and have giant cheat sheets that say "if you see a7f8k2m9x4, the original password was password123."
The solution to this is "salting". Before hashing the password, you add some random junk to it.
So for User A, you might add "xyz" to their password, making it "password123xyz" before hashing.
For User B with the same password, you add different junk like "abc", making it "password123abc".
Now when hashed, they look completely different.
Benefits of salting is that even if a million people use "password123", every single one looks different in your database.
Hackers have to work much harder to crack each password individually
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During my backend learning journey, I realized there are no tutorials, guides, or resources that properly explain how to deploy a backend securely.
Here’s the correct approach I follow:
1. Use a vpc (virtual private cloud) for your backend, which includes both your api routes and your database.
2. Your api and database should either use vpc peering or reside within the same private network. Your main backend must never communicate with the database over the public internet.
3. Your frontend should be dumb; it should fetch all necessary data and logic from your backend and cache aggressively to optimize performance.
Anything else is wrong, slow, or overkill.
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