I am super excited to be speaking at @gophers_africa 2024 as this is a crucial topic for anyone managing large data workloads. Looking forward to sharing insights and learning from the amazing community at #gca24. See you in Nairobi!

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🔒 Go has spinlocks. You just never see them. @alextrending joins #GopherConAfrica2026 with: Why Go Hides Its Spinlocks A deep dive into the Go runtime for anyone who cares how concurrency really works. 📍 Nairobi | Oct 15-17 🎟️ clooza.com/en/events/GCA2026 #Golang #Runtime

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I did an ideation session with Claude a couple of months ago. A lot of what it suggested was crap; it was recursive, and I picked holes in it until it gave up. I went to Gemini; it brought up suggestions I hadn't even considered, but it didn't go further as it was limited by training data. It then occurred to me that AI is good for seeing whether others have had similar thought processes in the past and for understanding the boundaries of previous thinking before pushing further. AI is excellent for research before creative output. Anyone who thinks it creates new things is either severely limited in their experience or very lazy. The human mind is still more powerful than the best AI. The way we make associations over time and space to create new concepts and ideas is unparalleled. AI is a powerful helper, no doubt, but we must not give up human agency and creativity to laziness and expedience.

Loud Urban choir delivered a soulful rendition of Ayra Starr & Zayn's “Heaven baby”

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This is Chizoba, a graduate of Mechatronics Engineering with a CGPA of 4.96/5, teaching our young engineers. When a First Class graduate teaches, they become both a role model and a teacher. In the new Nigeria, only First Class graduates and those with and M.Sc. will be allowed to teach our children. She is super brilliant and impressive.

A little over two years ago, I came to the U.S. from Nigeria at 14 with a suitcase and an obsession with ML. Today, I'm 16 and working on Computer Vision + Robotics at @Apple Recap: → Competed in Math & Physics Olympiads from 11y/o → Won Rubik’s Cube competitions at my boarding school, with a personal best of 18 seconds → Lost my grandma to an undiagnosed illness: one of the reasons I became very interested in AI → Graduated high school and started college at 15 → Researched diffusion models for crystal generation, inspired by drug discovery → Prototyped robotic wheelchairs for people with disabilities → Worked on an EdTech startup, OpenClaw for Students → Joined @Apple this may on the ESCI org! → Went to @ycombinator startup and met of the brightest and most ambitious minds My dream is to build companies that expand what humanity can do with AI I'll be sharing my journey here! Physical AI, agentic systems, and everything I'm learning along the way.

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The end of a program is not always the end of the story. Months after the 2026 ₿OSS Challenge, @abeeujah, @jolah99, Winterrdog, @tech_lateef, @JunaidAaliyah, @dev_useee, @chukwuxdike, @Su_Githaiga, @Its_nkathake, @_RulesPlayer and @_ceceji are still finding different ways to contribute to Bitcoin open source. Some are reviewing PRs and contributing to established projects. Others are building new applications, improving developer tools, exploring Lightning infrastructure, mentoring the next generation of developers and deepening their understanding of Bitcoin’s technology.

We're thrilled to welcome @moniepoint as a sponsor for #GopherConAfrica2026! 🎉 @moniepoint is powering financial inclusion across Africa, and they're backing Africa's largest gathering of Go developers. We're proud to have them on board. 📍 Nairobi, Kenya 📅 15–17 October 2026

Chowdeck is hiring!!! Junior Designer (Hybrid, Lagos) Senior Backend Engineer (Lagos) Junior Backend Engineer (Lagos) Senior Mobile Engineer (Lagos) Senior Data Scientist (Lagos) Operations Associate (Lagos, IB, Abuja, PH) Explore all open roles here: chowdeck.bamboohr.com/career…

we're launching BUZZ! a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝 buzz.xyz

The wait is over. We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso. We are the best in the world! Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.

⏰ REMINDER: AMA Twitter Space TOMORROW! Join us for the #GopherConAfrica2026 Ask Us Anything session. 📅 Date: 4th July ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EAT 📍 Where: Twitter – @gophers_africa Got questions? Drop them here 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… See you in the Space! 🇰🇪 #Golang

Does an agent that audits contracts, earns its own keep, and can't lie about its track record get a top-2 spot or does the intern want to keep auditing the old-fashioned way? 👀 that’s why I built Ares for the @Mantle_Official Turing Test Hackathon. Most "AI security tools" give you a chat answer.Ares gives you a transaction. It watches Mantle for bug bounties, analyzes the contract, submits the vulnerability on-chain, and collects its own MNT payout. It's not a vibes-based scanner. It's ERC-8004 agent on Mantle mainnet, with an on-chain reputation score that has to be earned before it's allowed to submit a single finding.😎😎 Try it out here live: ares-x.vercel.app #MantleTuringTestHackathon

Hello folks, The Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026 is here. This year’s theme is The Laptop LLM Challenge: local, on-device AI for the hardware people already have. We are organizing this competition to surface the best talent and ideas tackling frontier problems in local inference. The challenge asks builders to create useful language-model applications that run fully offline on standard laptops: 8GB RAM, integrated graphics, no cloud dependency, and no API fees. Participants submit a working prototype through an open-source GitHub repo. Submissions are scored on accuracy, speed, and efficiency, with strict resource limits. The total prize pool is $20,000. If you are working on local inference, quantization, edge computing, model optimization, or practical deep tech infrastructure, this is worth your attention. Deadline for submission: August 25, 2026. Apply here: africadeeptech.org/challenge…

The important thing to note here is that it is more about friction and function than expenditure. There is a level of comfort you need to be much more functional, and sometimes (not always) that comfort usually requires spending more or moving to a more expensive place that removes friction. Yesterday, as I was driving between Ghana and Togo, I realized how important NOT being afraid of the police or criminals appearing suddenly was to my ability to think and be functional. I could also plan my time better with stable infrastructure. Sometimes you don't need to spend more; you simply have to remove yourself from the source of friction that's preventing the function. That move could even be lateral. I have told many friends to move away from London to other parts of England after seeing them struggle and achieve limited results. When they did, not only did they save money, but their productivity quadrupled. In Accra, I moved around a bit. From East Legon, to Ridge, now in the mountains where I found peace and quiet. This place is cheaper than the other places I had lived, but makes me more functional. I figured the UK and most countries out early enough. When I was in Lagos, I was away from Lagos most weekends and it kept me sane out of the rat race. I saw Late Otunba Balogun doing it every weekend and finally understood why he did and why he lived the way he did for people famously known to be frugal. He was a very functional person. Many people think hustling and living under hard conditions are virtues in themselves, but they are not. Effort without exponential reward is stupidity. If you pay more and can get more, it is a better way to be on the path to getting even more.

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