Hot take: Vibe coding only works well if you already know how to code.

You need a teammate in this economy, not a leech.

A Nigerian in the UK once gave me an offer so shocking that I had to read it twice to be sure my eyes weren’t buffering. The big boss wanted a full production-grade fintech backend solution. I was stunned.

Vertical scaling means increasing the power of a single server, like adding more CPU, RAM, SSD, etc. It’s the same machine, just stronger. For example, upgrading your server from 8GB RAM to 32GB RAM, and from 2 CPUs to 8 CPUs. The advantage is that it’s easy to implement (no

I’d go with a single aggregated /dashboard endpoint for the initial load to reduce network overhead and improve performance, especially on mobile. Internally, I’d fetch data in parallel and cache heavy parts like analytics. But I wouldn’t put everything into that endpoint, I’d

First, I would immediately revoke and rotate the exposed API keys, because once they’re public, you have to assume they’re already compromised. Then I will remove them from the Git history using a tool like git filter-repo or BFG and force-push the cleaned history. I’d also

Vibe coding PRO Tip : The exact auth prompt I copy-paste at the start of every project. Drop this into Cursor before you write a single auth route : "Implement authentication for a production [Next.js / Express] app. Requirements: - JWT access tokens with 15-minute expiry -

When they move abroad as immigrants - they make friends based on visa categories. They don't even date below their visa categories. 😂 When they're on Twitter, the reiterate that stratification. small accounts vs big accounts. 💀 I reflect a lot on our ideological design, as a

How do you prevent race conditions when multiple users try to update the same resource (e.g., buying the last item in stock)?

The Memory Leak That Kills Production “Everything looks fine after deploy… but 3 hours later, your servers start crashing one by one. Restart fixes it temporarily. Then it happens again.” You’re on-call. Where do you even start?

Separate “build environment” from “runtime environment” You use one stage to install dependencies and build your app, and another clean stage to run it, without all the heavy tools.

So you say you are a software engineer. Have you ever downloaded actual binaries like Kafka, Postgres, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Redis, or something else, and tried running them locally while exploring what those bin, lib, data, and logs, etc directories contain? And then did

Backend Folder Structure every developer should know: backend/ │ ├── src/ │ ├── config/ # DB configs, env setup │ ├── controllers/ # Handle request & response logic │ ├── services/ # Business logic (core brain) │ ├── models/ #

This kind of blew up overnight, with many folks challenging the idea in the comments Wrote it quickly & flippantly but is directionally true You either figure out how to make this work, or you stop being relevant as an engineer building the future We don't all have answers yet

All these financial experts on Twitter - Nigeria does not have a credit system - No shelter for the homeless - No social guardrails against stark poverty and hunger - No Nothing And every morning you people are telling people here that owning a house is a bad investment and

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Backend Developer interview: We can write 80% of our code with AI why should we still hire you. What will be your response?

I WANT TO CODE I want to code I want to code I want to code I want to code I want to code I want to code I want to code I want to code I want to code I have talent. Nepa : come code na