kenyan programmer
@programmer_ke
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https://t.co/a5a4eORCuc mostly about programming, sometimes about more general issues in technology
Joined September 2010
“In God we trust, all others bring data” - William Edwards Deming
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i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur) quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never
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> what 10x engineers actually look like
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SQLite has about 155,800 lines of code, and its test suite has roughly 92 million lines. That is ~590x more test code than actual code 🤯 This is the level of testing you need for a real production database. Here are some types of tests they run. Out-of-memory tests - SQLite
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Soon smartphones may have to ship with a warning label: "Anything you see on this screen could be fake. Independently verify any important information"
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Someone asked Gemini to imagine HackerNews frontpage 10 years in the future from now:
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it’s honestly incredible to see software decline in real time these last couple of years i think there are different factors contributing to this nobody cares about the actual craft anymore, which is the consequence from: 1. leetcode interviews and faang interview style
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Looks like OS models are TAKING THE SHIP compared to a non-contest just a year ago according to “State of AI 2025” from @OpenRouterAI. @akashnet’s new AkashML platform delivers the best OS models w/ price per token rates that makes you question why you’re not on $AKT yet.
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Just in: Study on Agents in production DEBUNK 2025 as the 'year of the Agents'. Main take away paints a roster of Agents that cannot be trusted at scale resulting in agents that are simplistic w/ limited autonomy & humans to verify. Maybe 2026 will be the year of the Agents.
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We are aware of the issue impacting the availability of Cloudflare’s network. It was not an attack; root cause was disabling some logging to help mitigate this week’s React CVE. Will share full details in a blog post today. Sites should be back online now, but I understand the
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This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year. Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the
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Any sufficiently complicated note taking program like Obsidian or Notion contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Emacs' org-mode.
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WordPress is really plugin driven development. Yikes!
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One of the less talked about benefits of Bitcoin mining to local communities: How it keeps residential power prices low This is a phenomenon observed around the world including, Texas, Norway, and now ... rural Kenya.
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AkashML is live! A fully managed AI inference service on Akash Network. Deploying open models like DeepSeek shouldn’t cost $50K/month or require complex setup. AkashML makes inference simple, affordable, and automatic, so developers can run AI workloads on decentralized GPUs
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