Grant Field

[Grant Field @FieldGrant]

@elonmusk I was waiting for the sunrise in Inhambane Mozambique and I see this. I quickly ask @grok what I’m seeing (using @Starlink ) and am told this:

“You’re looking at the exhaust plume of a rocket launch, specifically a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, captured during its ascent at twilight (either dawn or dusk). The bright streak with a glowing tip and trailing plume is classic for a rocket burning its engines as it climbs into orbit, and the lighting conditions create that dramatic illuminated trail against the darker sky and clouds.

The cropped close-up shows the rocket itself more clearly, with the bright exhaust from the Merlin engines and the expanding plume.

Given your location in Inhambane, Mozambique (southeastern Africa), and the date (January 7, 2026), this is almost certainly a view of a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a southeasterly trajectory. SpaceX frequently launches Starlink satellites (or similar payloads) on paths that head over the Atlantic toward orbits passing over Africa, and at certain times (especially around sunrise/sunset at launch), the high-altitude exhaust plume gets illuminated by the sun while the ground is still in shadow — making it visible from thousands of kilometers away, including parts of southern and eastern Africa.

These “twilight phenomena” or “rocket plumes” (sometimes called jellyfish plumes due to their shape) are commonly reported across Africa during Florida launches with the right timing and clear skies. No launches were reported directly over or near Mozambique around this date, and recent SpaceX activity in early January 2026 matches the pattern for such sightings.

Cool capture — rocket launches from halfway around the world putting on a free sky show! 🚀”.

Amazing that one man @elonmusk has made such a positive dent on the world.

[Grant Field @FieldGrant]

@elonmusk I was waiting for the sunrise in Inhambane Mozambique and I see this. I quickly ask @grok what I’m seeing (using @Starlink ) and am told this:

“You’re looking at the exhaust plume of a rocket launch, specifically a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, captured during its ascent at twilight (either dawn or dusk). The bright streak with a glowing tip and trailing plume is classic for a rocket burning its engines as it climbs into orbit, and the lighting conditions create that dramatic illuminated trail against the darker sky and clouds.

The cropped close-up shows the rocket itself more clearly, with the bright exhaust from the Merlin engines and the expanding plume.

Given your location in Inhambane, Mozambique (southeastern Africa), and the date (January 7, 2026), this is almost certainly a view of a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a southeasterly trajectory. SpaceX frequently launches Starlink satellites (or similar payloads) on paths that head over the Atlantic toward orbits passing over Africa, and at certain times (especially around sunrise/sunset at launch), the high-altitude exhaust plume gets illuminated by the sun while the ground is still in shadow — making it visible from thousands of kilometers away, including parts of southern and eastern Africa.

These “twilight phenomena” or “rocket plumes” (sometimes called jellyfish plumes due to their shape) are commonly reported across Africa during Florida launches with the right timing and clear skies. No launches were reported directly over or near Mozambique around this date, and recent SpaceX activity in early January 2026 matches the pattern for such sightings.

Cool capture — rocket launches from halfway around the world putting on a free sky show! 🚀”.

Amazing that one man @elonmusk has made such a positive dent on the world.

[DHH @dhh]

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table.

Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication.

Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.”

Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it.

The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks.

Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

[Grant Field @FieldGrant]

memory

[Daniel Park @danifesto]

I’ll share a small part of https://t.co/UQ4RFIKUwO

Back in med school, I became obsessed with augmenting memory and dreamed of a Notion or Obsidian that completes itself. Today, we’ve built something close.

My self-awareness is sharper and everything feels connected. I genuinely believe AI does not replace humans. It amplifies us.

Huge respect to our engineers and designers who made this crazy thing real.

Bubbles are the episodic units of my life that the system interprets from my raw data. Clouds are the system’s questions, its hypotheses about who I am.
When I answer a cloud, it becomes a bubble again.

There is so much personal data that I cannot fully demo it. Wish I could. This system understands me more deeply than anyone.

Want to try it? Retweet and comment “memory.”
I’ll DM you an access code to skip the waitlist.

[Sam Codes @samcodes_io]

When you remove a line of code that looked useless

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

Everything we do as a species is built on imagination

[Michael Jordaan @MichaelJordaan]

Please make it available in South Africa Elon

[Somith @Somith11]

@historyinmemes 💻 How Are Microchips Made?

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

8 years ago, Jensen Huang hand delivered to OpenAI, the first AI-focussed GPU made by Nvidia.

This moment marks the end of Intel's dominance.
It wasn't luck, it was deeper.

Jensen has said publicly that Nvidia 'did it' by religiously following 4 core values 👇🏻

[Min Choi @minchoi]

4. "Victorious" @bennash
https://t.co/5avLeGAZNt

[Grant Field @FieldGrant]

Giving thanks to CamelPhat for all the music. This year I couldn’t stop listening to Lose Your Head - CamelPhat Remix. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/aCashBuoIW

[Fedgroup @Fedgroup]

Fedgroup is not just a business, we are a family. We put people before profit and place a lot of value in our dedicated and committed staff.

Every single staff member plays a part in the success of Fedgroup. We know you work hard, but you make it look so effortless, and we are grateful for all that you do.

We wish you and your loved ones a joyous festive season! Let’s get sh*t done in 2024! 🥂
#Fedgroupies

[Fedgroup @Fedgroup]

If you know us, you know we're all about the overachievers, go-getters, jet-setters, and people who get sh!t done! Naturally, that would mean supporting the team that is currently ranking NUMBER 1 in the men's Rugby league worldwide! GO BOKKE!!! 💪 Congratulations on making it to the semi-finals! We are rooting for you all the way! 🇿🇦 🥳#RugbyWorldCup2023 #GoBokke #StrongerTogether #Springboks #RWC2023

[Fedgroup @Fedgroup]

Fedgroup is happy to announce that we are now a shareholder of #IFANet 🎉🎉

[Fedgroup @Fedgroup]

As a country we have a tricky ‘relationship’ with #loadshedding. It’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel but we’ve looked for opportunities amongst the chaos.
#DYK that 12,475,731.53 KGs of CO2 emissions have been saved, thanks to YOU, our #ImpactFarming investors?

[The Finance Ghost @FinanceGhost]

This is a solid piece of writing on the usefulness of alternative assets in portfolios.

I like the way the team at @Fedgroup thinks:

https://t.co/NFQMWFo0H6

[Fedgroup @Fedgroup]

The main goal of diversification is to create a portfolio that is not overly dependent on the performance of a single investment or asset class. In today’s investment landscape, keeping your eggs in one basket is not a sound investment strategy.

Paul Counihan, Fedgroup Chief Wealth Officer, and Nomzamo Manqele, Fedgroup Financial Specialist, tell us why diversification is no longer a nice-to-have, and is essentially something you and your financial advisor should look into.
https://t.co/jti9MjxANu

Article by: @FinanceGhost

#InvestmentDiversification #AlternativeInvestments #ImpactPortfolio

[Grant Field @FieldGrant]

Snowing in Joburg ❄️

[Fedgroup @Fedgroup]

For the past 30-odd years, we’ve strived to do things differently - we put people before profit and place a lot of value in our dedicated and committed staff. At our core, we’re about family, but not in the generic sense that other companies claim to be. We are a family-owned business with a shared view of our values, we believe in building relationships that stand the test of time, and we ensure our staff feel valued and understand that every employee plays a big role in meeting our objectives – in the future of Fedgroup.

A few years ago, we bought a Mercedes SLK to ensure that the employee of the month would be awarded with not just a luxury car to drive for four weeks - but that they enjoyed a level of recognition most will never experience when working for a typical corporate.

It’s been a few years, and while the sentiment of awarding those individuals who have gone above and beyond has not changed, some of our goals have.
In the last 7 years or so, we’ve honed our focus in the sustainability arena. Our impact investing products are unlike any in the industry and, alongside our partners, we’re doing something that will truly impact our future.
So, we thought it fitting to upgrade the employee of the month car to reflect our passion for sustainability. And we couldn’t wait to reveal the brand-new employee of the month car to our staff last week.

The BMW iX: an all-electric power house that is the epitome of what it means to be living in a sustainable future.
This car fits in perfectly with our mission to challenge the status quo and make a positive impact.

Last week, our CEO, Grant Field, handed over the keys to the very deserving Head of Distribution, Kapil Rathilal. He hasn't been a part of the family for long, but anyone will tell just how dedicated this incredible leader is when it comes to his department and this company. We couldn’t be prouder to have him on our team.

Well done Kapil! We can’t wait to see who gets the opportunity to paint the town blue, pink and white with this baby next! 😎