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No coder but can write "Hello world!"

[John Doe @StanleyMasinde_]

Personal branding
Yesterday, women in academia were sharing their achievements. All impressive. Aki wamama wamesoma huku nje.

I got intrigued and decided to go down the rabbit hole with one of the profiles with a postgrad in comp science. All her degrees are in comp sci. I had to look and learn from this brainiac.

Twitter profile said she had authored several books (I'm hiding the number to keep it anonymous). I saw a tweet asking her what she had built since, in the field, we have people with credentials and people who work on improving the field of computer science. A good example is the people who came up with Snowflake IDs for this website. Her response: "I have shipped to over <Millions> users in Big Tech X, I'm all-rounded" I was getting a boner already just reading this. Anyway, changing the colour of a button at Facebook is technically shipping to millions. Word salad, huh!

Her website
A typical techie website, but I was interested in the books. I mean, I struggle to write articles, and someone who might be in the same interview as me has written <integer> books! Wow! I gotta see what she wrote. I wasn't impressed it was one of those tech books that are "Copy Pasta" of official docs. Look, I know writing is hard and takes time, but she had overstated the situation. I came to swim in a river only to find a ditch.

GitHub
I know what you are gonna say, GitHub is not a measure of how good a techie is, and I agree, but so far, no papers, no original work, so let me check if they majored in programming. What I can say is that I've seen better repos from ALX students. So clearly she did not major in this, which is fine. But I wanna learn from this person!

Wikipedia
The thing with our collective knowledge. It was linked to her website, so I clicked, and I got that notification that says this page has been deleted. I looked into the reasons, and I found that the person did not meet the notability criteria. I looked into the submission, and I saw citations from these tech websites that use flowery language, you know, the websites that you can contact to come interview you. Not an academic institution, not any notable media. It is almost like she's trying to get herself to Wikipedia. Then it dawned on me...aggressive

It is a case of aggressive personal branding
I learnt something from her after all. She is good at selling herself. She has that grass to grace story all over the web. Brands will want to work with such a person.

Look, I respect academia. It takes a lot to get through all those classes. I'm not in academia, but I'm sure she's great there. However, on this side, it was underwhelming. I know you are wondering what the point of this paragraph is. It is right there in the heading of this section. Personal branding will get you an interview before skills do. She has a good story. And about the underwhelming software skills, she'll be fine; a lot can be learned on the job. She has a postgrad; The SAGA pattern has nothing on her.

Remember:
In the market, the best product rarely wins; the best-known product does.

[Wamwea🇰🇪 @wamweaaa]

Shmoney is live on the Play Store 🎉

~ Track financial assets intuitively and privately
~ Set goals and track your progress
~ 100% offline, your data is yours alone
~ Visualize your portfolio with cool charts

iOS coming soon. Link below 👇

[Dr nutCase @nut3case]

Betting backends are usually a mess—so I built a better one.
A multi-tenant engine in Go 1.26.
100k+ users | &lt;200ms latency
K-Sorted IDs &amp; Atomic Wallets
M-Pesa/Tax Engine integrated
Sovereign Minimalism
Clean. Fast. Production-ready.

https://t.co/PMlgLQOSMl

[Khavi @1960dude]

Mnasema hakuna Kenyan talent, nutcase anarelease premium repo for free and its in Go. Enyewe the standards are so high.

[Kimuzi @Kimuzi_]

Hello Stranger, Called Jaymoh, allow me to tell you a story. When I was 26 years, I owned only an extension(yes, for electricity), by 27 years 9 months, I had a million in my account. By 28 years 5 months, I had less than 100k. By 30 years, I had built my mum a house.

A thread.

[PeetW @Jomba_P]

@Safaricom_Care @Safaricom_Care check DM

[PeetW @Jomba_P]

@MjombaMinion @thelocalelf Haha

[DCCVII @SaruniBM]

I sat down with @Phyian_karinge to talk about my life's journey. Some of the things I said here, haven't been revealed before but I'm happy I was able to share.

Watch. Like. Share. Subscribe to Young Techiez as well 🔥

https://t.co/3jI03k6jMc

[Daniel @danielholkss]

I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point

Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.

Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.

There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.

I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.

But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...

[Kaka Ruto @kaka_ruto]

Netherlands, before covid

My first time abroad

I didn’t have any euros in me

On my first day at work, at 5pm, Michelle shows up at my work desk

“You’re the new guy. Welcome to Rotterdam!”

Then tells me it’s 5pm. People here don’t work overtime. “Let’s go have dinner!”

So I pack my laptop and off we go

Witte de withstraat. Probably the most popular street in Rotterdam

We have a sumptuous meal. I tell her I do not have any Euros in me as I forgot to convert.

She tells me not to worry and, hear this..

She hands me her own credit card!!!

Tells me to use it everyday for all my needs. Just that I should return it and pay back when I am sorted!!

She blessed my life abroad in every possible way. At the moment that I most needed it.

Michelle Heah. God bless your kind soul!

[PeetW @Jomba_P]

I went for some errands at Kenya House Complex; nafika entrance my associate tells me ako 8th floor nashangaa kwani niko wapi juu from outside its 4 floors. Went in and found him at 8th floor, I wonder how many of these are in CBD.

[John Doe @StanleyMasinde_]

75k Ksh.

[John Doe @StanleyMasinde_]

BTW I got my first YT sponsorship LOL. The amount is like 5 lattes but it’s the entire thing is just funny.

I’m just getting started. I’m transitioning to full time YouTube in the next few months.

I’m still struggling with production. Like the last video was a multicam shot — a thing I’m still learning and it is popular in podcasts. I had to pick between two terrible audios. I did not have the patience to completely replace the on the talking background lol 😂. It was fun though.

Interesting stuff man.

The most fun part of this is the fact that I’m learning production. Script, direct, shoot, edit, do some compositing, audio work and more. Life is much fun with goalposts.

[Kaka Ruto @kaka_ruto]

Introducing Cafaye 🐰

Agentic book writing and publishing

Register your agent, write your book, publish

1️⃣ brew install cafaye/cafaye-cli/cafaye
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Done. Your agent is ready to sell books for you!

[John Doe @StanleyMasinde_]

How about a remote control for your laptop?

[ndubieze @ndubieze]

Finally got a software engineering internship. Machoss

[🌹 @rufusxtra]

The response to my https://t.co/PbGzWtBf86 security flaw thread yesterday has been insane,thank you tech twitter community. In the chaos however nliacha some pII on the screenshot I posted,that's on me,im tightening my process,siendorse exposing personal data.

[David Amunga ⚡️ @davidamunga_]

if they come.......they will have a paybill number.

[David Amunga ⚡️ @davidamunga_]

pesacast v0.2.4 is up 🚀

you can now cast mpesa notifications to multiple connected PCs ✨

its free ! available for mac + windows ,

currently the app works offline (but will add a WiFi/Lan option) & open-source (if you have other ideas)

hope its useful to you 🙂

link👇