Captain Joseph Ririani is a former Kenya Airways pilot who founded the Kenya School of Flying in June 1992 to create an indigenous flight training institution owned and operated by Kenyans.
Frustrated that most Kenyan pilots had to train expensively in South Africa, he quit his job at KQ in 1996 to fully manage the school, which has since become one of Kenya’s leading flight training schools.
In 2025, Ririani made headlines when he chained himself to an aircraft at Wilson Airport to protest land encroachment and developments around the airport perimeter, calling for safer training grounds for students.
Kenya’s Flag Carried by the Winds of the World. Nairobi to London by Road.
With greater admiration to receive a daughter and a son of our Republic, Becky Kim and Bonnie Koko, whose extraordinary odyssey began on 13 February 2026 in Nairobi and reached its triumphant final destination on 12 June 2026 in London.
They were received at the Kenya High Commission in London, where their arrival stirred a profound sense of national pride and quiet reverence. Their 4 months passage reads like a continental epic, sweeping across Africa, piercing the vast Sahara, traversing the ancient Kalahari, skirting the Western edge of Senegal, crossing the Tropic of Capricorn, ascending to the Northern point of Europe, and venturing beyond the Arctic Circle. In total, they journeyed through 60 nations, covering 45,470 km, with the United Kingdom as their final horizon.
After a warm reception and an a brief tête‑à‑tête, they proceeded to meet H.E. Ambassador Maurice Makoloo, Kenya’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, an engagement that affirmed the esteem with which Kenya honours its trailblazers.
Their expedition is not merely a chronicle of distance, it is a testament to Kenyan fortitude, cross‑border inquiry, and the audacity of global aspiration. It reflects a nation whose citizens possess the courage to cross continents, the curiosity to learn from the world, and the patriotism to lift their flag with unwavering dignity.
As Kenyans across the United Kingdom prepare to celebrate this remarkable accomplishment, we honour a voyage that transcends geography,a majestic arc of Kenyan excellence etched across continents, reminding the world that Kenya does not merely appear on the global map, Kenya inscribes upon it a legacy of courage, brilliance, and boundless possibility.@KenyaMissionUK@MMakoloo@WilliamsRuto@_KithureKindiki@MusaliaMudavadi@SingoeiAKorir@roselinenjogu@rebecca_miano@AlfredKOmbudo@Min_TourismKE@magicalkenya@KenyaAirways@Roads_KE
I know the person who used to send Margaret outfits, when Ruto regime took over she was asked by Rachael’s team to send her best designs for her(Rachael) to try them out. Alituma suitcases zimejaa Nguo and never heard from them again 😂 mikora walidhani hiyo ni kazi their clueless asses wanaeza jifanyia ona sasa.
@AuthorMJClifton Let me make it easy for you. They say other Africans are stealing their jobs in their country. It is their job to support their team. We don't want to steal that.
@cathy_mutuku@KKiptalam I once visited Konza kitambo and that migration corridor was on the maps. Probably someone had other thoughts thereafter, and blocking it.
Kenya's government plans to sell at least 1,000 datasets from platforms like eCitizen over five years to raise revenue.
The Sh396 million project will include anonymised datasets such as:
— Land transactions
— Passport applications
— Vehicle registrations
— Birth and death records
— Business registrations
A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.
He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.
His name is Fabrice Bellard.
Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.
Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.
In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.
Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.
He was not done.
In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.
He kept going.
In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.
In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.
Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.
Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org
He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.
A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.
He is still shipping.
CARJACKING INCIDENT.
The lorry below has fallen victim to carjacking today.
The driver was requested to go and pick a luggage from Thika ngoigwa and transport it to Eldoret, the carjackers then pulled a gun on him, tied his legs and hands and threw him into a coffee plantation...... They removed two trackers, one fitted by the bank and another one by isuzu..... the investor is going crazy because of stress..... kindly, Kenyans and our followers, let's unite and support in retrieval efforts by reposting this.
If you spot the lorry, kindly WhatsApp 0738584299.
#SafetySunday