Growth isn't found in comfort zones, it's written in error logs.

nothing gets you ready for the day better than a leetcode problem a cup of coffee

Five years since hello world. Still trying to understand the world. Still building my way through it.

A state machine for loan repayment sounds overkill until you're 3 months in and a stakeholder says "what if a loan is partially paid but also overdue but also flagged?" Build the state machine. Day one.

Too real

Ringpop, shadow riding… nah, Uber’s engineering team is cracked in the best way. 😮‍💨

Day 9/100... contined my rabbit mq course on boot dev

"Reality is often disappointing."

Lately I’ve been diving deep into core banking systems, and honestly, it’s completely changed how I see software. The depth behind systems we casually rely on every day is crazy. You don’t really understand them until you go deep. It’s been fascinating and a lot of fun.

Amazon started like this What's your excuse?

Try harder.

Hey guys, I spent the past sometime tracking and documenting submissions, each winner, the tracks and their projects. Polkadot received 2749 participants and out of these the we received a total of 230 submissions, globally🔥 I’m sorry. I miscalculated the amount of winners, because we didn’t have 11 or 13 winners from Africa. We have 20 winners🤯 across different tracks🔥 🥇First place in User Centric track: Winner: @iam_combi16 🇳🇬 Project: Nani - for event monitoring & Notifications 🥉 Third place in Build a Blockchain track: Winner: @0xBukii 🇳🇬 Project: Era(The ledger of Reality) 🥉Third place in Polkadot Tinkerers track: Winners: @Lynette_mwangi & @kashortgirl 🇰🇪 Project: iVF —ink! verifier factory 🥉Third place in Polkadot Tinkerers track: Winner: @Gitonga2050 🇰🇪 Project: Polkashield 🏅Winners in Polkadot Roots track - @solomon_t0 — xpoika 🇪🇹 - @SamsonBerhanu9 — Mela Pay 🇪🇹 - @PassaAfrika — Passa Pay 🇰🇪 - Rustaman254(Magara)— Dot Ramp 🇰🇪 - @mikedotwill — Dot Vest 🇳🇬 - Akaninyrne Inyang— Genesis Authentic 🇳🇬 - @JoviaMinallah — Rydr 🇺🇬 - Olaoluwa Marvellous— Polkastream 🇳🇬 - @Odinga_Val — OnchainCV 🇰🇪 - @liwei_254 — Green Credit 🇰🇪 - keyanureeves— Organic Waste Gem 🇰🇪 - Swalha Nchula — Polkadot Analytics Hub 🏅Winners in Polkadot Tinkerers track - @Xpan369 & @d_honouredOne —Privachain🇳🇬 - Keith Kadim—Shadowchain 🇰🇪 - Sadik Tofik—Ikubchain 🇳🇬 - @sage_senpeak —Dotique🇳🇬 - @joshpet77, @Crid_IV , @zeekalph —Devra 🇳🇬 🏅Winners in Community Votes track - @kh3rld — ApexSDK Protocol 🇰🇪 - @BBjuniour — Bima 🇰🇪 This is just the beginning of the products era on Polkadot. Congratulations to all the winners😤🔥

Don't be afraid of being the dummy in the room.

This time of the year. The time for THE GREAT LOCK IN.

sleep is propaganda I'm not falling for🥀 BUILD BUILD BUILD

Every great engineer started at mount stupid.

No good deed goes unpunished. #facts