4/ I’m also starting a 40-day project build sprint 🛠️ For the next 40 days: • Daily dev work • Daily progress updates • Ending with 2 big capstone projects for my portfolio (hopefully) The hardest part for me is actually posting updates daily 😅 But I’m committing to it.

I've been a backend Engineer for 12 years. Today, I'm a Principal Engineer at Atlassian. I've designed systems that handle millions of requests. Sat on both sides of system design interviews. Reviewed more architecture docs than I can count. Starting today, I'm breaking down the fundamentals of scaling for the next 25 days. If you're learning system design bookmark this thread, you're going to get a lot of learning from this.

The Starlink team is exploring ways to extend connectivity beyond our planet

We're building a Moon Base! @NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions. Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: go.nasa.gov/4uinkLi

Live @CursorNigeria #cafecursorlagos

Ok last one: the rarest solar eclipse of all time. Only 4 people have seen this with their naked eyes. The sun is fully behind the moon. The only faint light hitting the near side is reflecting off of earth, 250,000 miles away. And the stars and galaxies in the background, sheesh Nikon Z9 f/2.0 2 second exposure ISO 1600 @NASA: flickr.com/photos/nasa2explo…

SpaceX

You can just build things, really

5 years ago I made a post listing a bunch of the coolest companies for people who wanted to work in space but didn’t know where else to apply besides NASA/SpaceX. Well the industry has changed a LOT in 5 years so here is a fresh list! From launch vehicles to satellites to payloads I gotchu 👇 🚀 U.S. companies: @vast @GoToImpulse @FireflySpace @Astranis @The_TrueAnomaly @RocketLab @blueorigin @Honeywell_Aero @northropgrumman @outpostspace @reflectorbital @planet @L3HarrisTech @SierraSpaceCo @Axiom_Space @BoeingSpace @ulalaunch @AerospaceCorp @BallAerospace @capellaspace @relativityspace @agile_space @Int_Machines @CesiumAstro @stoke_space @ursamajortech @ApexSpacecraft @VolundMfg @astrobotic @HB_Robotics @OrbitalOps_ @bps_space @gru_space Non-U.S. companies for my friends abroad! @ArianeGroup @rocketfactoryuk @isaraerospace @SurreySat @PLD_Space @Open_Cosmos Adding a special shoutout section for a couple very cool plane companies: @hermeuscorp @boomsupersonic @Stratolaunch

While you're worrying about your job being taken by AI, here's a list of tech-related professions that won't be impacted by AI. In case you're looking for new fields to transition to: System Admin Network Admin Network Engr Cloud Architect Infrastructure Engr SRE DevOps Engr

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I wasted 6 years building something God never asked me to build. 70-hour weeks. Marriage on fumes. Kids growing up without me. A “career” that meant nothing. Then I read Psalm 127 in the cab of my garbage truck. “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” Read that again, slowly. Truth #1: Your hustle means nothing without God’s direction. “They labour in vain.” Vain. Empty. Pointless. You can build a tower God never commissioned. Truth #2: Most men aren’t led. They’re self-employed. They call it “drive.” It’s self-worship. Truth #3: Anxiety is a sign you’re carrying what God should carry. “It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows…” That’s not “discipline.” That’s self-reliance pretending to be virtue. God gives His beloved sleep. Truth #4: Children are not interruptions to your mission. They are your mission. “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” The world calls them burdens. God calls them reward. Truth #5: Your children are weapons, not trophies. “As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.” You don’t display arrows. You sharpen them. Aim them. Launch them. Truth #6: A full quiver beats a full bank account. “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…” Truth #7: Your children will fight battles you’ll never see. “They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.” The gate is where the public fights happen. Your job is to prepare them to stand there. Save this. You’ll need it. You’re building a house right now. Every day. In your marriage. In your household. In your conscience. get alone with Psalm 127 and write down the one thing you’re building that God never asked you to build. Then start dismantling it.

I just finished building the core payment functionality for this project I'm contributing to. My PR was just approved, and I couldn't be any prouder!🙂‍↔️

Is buying a high-end gaming laptop for programming overkill?

Nobody: @hackSultan on a random afternoon:

We explore the universe and its vastness because, with every new discovery, we stand in AWE of the magnificence of the One who created it.

It is important that when learning to code and building softwares by building personal projects, you use as little AI as possible. The less AI you have to use in this process, the better

There are heights to reasoning, and there are depths to wisdom. Seek Wisdom, and above all, seek to understand.

🚨: Physicists made light move faster than itself using a real microscopic warp bubble that bends space-time without breaking Einstein’s laws