Hi, I'm Youssef, also known as "0xW3ston" ā a backend-focused engineer from Nador, Morocco.When I was a kid, computers were simply gaming consoles to me. I had no concept of programming or IT. But t...
Hi, Iām Emmanuel Nwafor, a computer science student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka ā and a curious mind who fell in love with software development. Like not many others, I started with the b...
Before I was a developer, I was an English major. I cared about how sentences flowed, how meaning was layered and could sometimes be buried and lost.
Turns out, writing clean code taps right into tho...
A big thing I struggled with after changing careers was the idea of "doing better."My entire life had been about scraping by ā watching my parents struggle, then struggling myself. Financially, emot...
Many developers feel like their job defines their worth. You spend your time thinking about how to be better at work. Closing more tickets, improving your code quality, and keeping up with other devel...
Scaling search isn't just about adding bigger servers ā sometimes you need the right tools.When we first launched finlight.me, our real-time financial news API, Postgres full-text search was more th...
In my previous post, I shared how I supercharged my VS Code AI agent with a local RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system using MCP (Model Context Protocol). Today, I'm following up with a detaile...
Hi, Iām Abraham Enoma (bram), a smart contract developer. It feels good to say that because just a few weeks ago, I could only confidently call myself a backend developer. But discovering b<>r...
Note: This is the first post in a series about two Americans working in tech and planning a move abroad.
āØ How We Got Here
I was born and raised in the middle ā Joplin, Missouri ā the bu...
It covered essential concepts like cyber threats, attack vectors, and defense strategies ā all explained in a practical, beginner-friendly way.As someone walking the Red Teaming roadmap, this was a ...