John Apella

Cloud Security Engineer (Google Cloud Platform)

[John Apella @apella_john]

My journey in the cloud has led me to cloud security. I'll be going over the Google Cybersecurity Certificate course (expecting completion in the next 4 months) to get deeper into the cloud security technical concepts and architecture.

[shadcn @shadcn]

Messi landing in Argentina on Monday.

"Alright line up kids!"

[John Apella @apella_john]

Just finished reading Kevin Mitnick's Ghost In The Wires. What a ride that has been.

[Ahmedkhan @Ahmed___khaan]

As a beginner in Cybersecurity, don’t start by learning everything you come across. Start with a roadmap.

A clear roadmap gives your self-learning journey structure, which helps you understand what to learn next, and allows you to track your progress.

Random learning keeps you busy. Structured learning moves you forward.

Pick a path. Follow a roadmap. Build projects. Document your progress.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Someone sent me an email that used "it's" for the possessive and I thought "At least it's not AI."

[OLANNA @OlannaOli]

There’s an American on TikTok asking what “Soccer” players do after the World Cup, and if they have to go back to some other jobs.

One response went: “Haaland is a rapper, Ronaldo is an Influencer, and Mbappe is a General in the French army”

I have laughed so hard.

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

😂😂😂

[Naval @naval]

You won’t get rich just working hard, but if you don’t work hard, you won’t get rich.

[Lynn Ngugi @lynn_ngugi1]

I think one of the biggest reasons so many people feel behind in life is because they’re measuring their success against people who had far more privileged starting points😏

Some people were born into wealth. They never had to worry about school fees, rent, or where the next opportunity would come from. They can go back to university whenever they want, travel with ease, build businesses with family support, and take risks knowing they have something to fall back on. Others married into wealth and are raising their children without many of the financial burdens that keep so many people awake at night. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s simply a different starting point.

Others are trying to build a life while paying siblings’ school fees, taking care of their parents, supporting relatives, and breaking a cycle that has existed for generations.

Those are two completely different journeys. Be kinder to yourself.

If you’re putting food on the table, educating your siblings, taking care of your parents, or making sure the children after you have a better chance than you did, you’re not behind.

You’re carrying a weight many people will never have to carry.

[SamProgramiz @SamProgramiz]

If you are a vibe coder / prompt engineer, then this doesn't apply to you.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

It is very hard to defeat someone who is in love with the sport and their style of play.

[Starter Story @starter_story]

Marc, who makes $77K/month as a solopreneur, says the fear of shipping your first product is a one-time fear (he uses a gym analogy to explain why)

"We're always afraid to show our new creation and your ideas to the world for the first time. Just keep in mind that that's the biggest barrier to your success ever."

"It's a bit like going to the gym for the first time. You see people on Instagram, they lift super heavy, and then you enter the gym, you don't know the machines, you don't know how it works."

"It's a one-time fear. You kill 80% of it by doing it once, and then the remaining 20% will just kill it with more iterations, but it just becomes easier and easier."

[stressed @onlystresstoday]

Getting yo shit together requires a deep level of honesty with yourself, you gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror & be willing to accept flaws & behavior that's not allowing you to grow , self evaluation is difficult but it's extremely necessary.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The race for the World Cup golden boot 🔥

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

We know the Ruto regime is broke, that one is no longer a debate, because every new policy now looks like Treasury searching under mattresses for money.

We know that even if they are handed Sh1 trillion from SACCOs, the same tender games will start, costs will balloon, projects will be revised, brokers will appear, and politically connected tender boys will become richer overnight.

They are telling SACCO members that their money will go into infrastructure, but nobody is explaining when those roads, airports or projects will zaa matunda and return real money to the teacher, nurse, farmer, trader or boda rider whose savings were touched.

Kenyans have already seen this movie, where a project starts with clean English, moves into inflated contracts, disappears into tender corridors, then returns years later as a scandal that nobody is punished for.

Why are we pretending this is development financing when everybody can smell the scam from the gate, especially after the same government borrowed everywhere, taxed everything, sold assets and still came back for private savings.

Call it what it is.

This is a scam in an infrastructure helmet.

[ISC2 @ISC2]

You know security. You’ve read the books, taken courses and earned certifications. But when pressure hits — real incidents, tight deadlines, incomplete information — do you freeze or execute?

Examine your readiness gap now: https://t.co/VIZX5pdJXs

#SSCP

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

The audit reveals that Finsprint, a private firm involved in the SHA payment system, deducts a 2% fee from every payment made to hospitals before the money is sent.

Strangely, it also says the firm's majority shareholder has no verifiable address.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

The only shortcut is doing the work.

[ISC2 @ISC2]

30 years of cybersecurity evolution. One certification that never stopped being the standard. 5 eras, 5 lessons, 5-year roadmap to #CISSP.

Download the playbook:
https://t.co/8ytZ6Cb5R7

[Learn with Cisco @LearningatCisco]

📢 Last call: Get your NetOps questions in before tomorrow's AMA with Joe Clarke, Distinguished Engineer!

⏰ July 7, 2026, 10 a.m. Pacific Time
🗨️ Join the discussion: https://t.co/NazESMQmoT

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

After SACCOs, Banks And M-Pesa Are Next As Kenyans Become Guarantors For A Debt Crisis They Never Ate

Kenyans must stop asking why Kenya has not defaulted and start asking who is being prepared to carry the default when the music finally stops.

Ghana was here.

Sri Lanka was here.

Zambia was here.

Argentina was here.

Lebanon was here.

The script is always the same, because a broke government borrows until lenders get tired, taxes until citizens are dry, leans on banks until credit disappears, pushes pain into pensions and domestic savings, then tells the public that sacrifice is needed to save the country.

That is why the SACCO story should scare Kenyans more than they currently seem scared, because SACCO savings are not government money, they are the private sweat of teachers, police officers, nurses, farmers, matatu people, boda riders, mama mbogas, small traders and workers who ran there after banks abandoned them.

In every default story, the government does not stand alone at the edge of the cliff, because it drags citizens there as guarantors through inflation, taxes, currency pain, bank losses, pension restructuring, frozen credit and forced patriotic nonsense dressed up as national recovery.

Banks already formed a comfortable debt circle with government, where lending to Treasury became safer and sweeter than lending to SMEs, which slowly choked biashara, starved the real economy and turned ordinary Kenyans into beggars inside their own banking system.

Now the same government that fed banks with public debt is walking into SACCOs, looking at the last pool of money ordinary Kenyans still controlled after taxes, deductions, mobile money charges, fuel prices, school fees and rent had already eaten their pockets.

The anus cannot be stitched to stop diarrhoea.

A debt crisis cannot be solved by raiding SACCOs, squeezing banks, eyeing M-Pesa, selling public assets and pretending that every desperate grab is an infrastructure plan.

Ghana called it domestic debt exchange.

Sri Lanka called it restructuring.

Argentina called it emergency controls.

Lebanon left people staring at bank balances they could not freely touch.

Kenya will give it a cleaner name, maybe national development, domestic resource mobilisation, infrastructure financing or patriotic investment, but the meaning will be the same.

The citizens are being prepared as guarantors for debts they never ate.

Kenyans are not angry enough, because if they understood where this road ends, they would know SACCOs are not the final target, they are the warning shot before banks, M-Pesa and every private pool of money still breathing outside Treasury’s hands.

The money is finished.