Mugambi

IamDevloper ? Fueled by coffee :
Will Code for Coffee;

[Njuguna Mureithi @mureithi_me]

Devs instead of working on social skills 😂

[Aman @Amank1412]

When you finally read the API documentation at 3AM after hours of debugging.

[V @vineetwts]

> 2022 - Student
> 2023 - Developer
> 2024 - Prompt Engineer
> 2025 - Vibe coder
> 2026 - Farmer

[Furkan Gulsen @furkangulsenn]

This is called ENGINEERING

[hero thousandfaces @1thousandfaces_]

no more designing data intensive applications :(

[ily⚡️ @0xIlyy]

Nobody is an atheist when you run the DB migration in prod on 1 billion rows

[🍉 @theomelon]

nah cus i've recently learned the power of iphone pic settings.. cus wtf

[MURANG'A COUNTY GOVERNMENT @MurangaGovt_021]

MURANG’A COUNTY GOVERNMENT GENZ'S SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

@HonKangata thank you for believing in us👏👏👏👏👏.

[luffy @0xluffy]

tuesday mood

[Loresho_Hodler ⚡️ @rkirubi]

a compressed x-ray of Kenya’s entire political economy, and it tells multiple deep, uncomfortable truths if you’re willing to read between the lines.

🧅 Layer 1: Safaricom’s Domination – The Digital Monolith
•Sh819B market cap puts it >5× larger than the next contender (Equity Bank).
•It’s not just a telecom company — it’s the unofficial Central Bank of retail Kenya, via M-Pesa.
•Safaricom’s size reflects the outsized importance of mobile money, not productivity or innovation per se.
•What it tells us:
Kenya’s most valuable asset is a payments toll booth.
Not a manufacturer. Not a logistics company. Not an energy or agricultural innovator.

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🧅 Layer 2: Banks Rule Everything Around Me (B.R.E.A.M.)
•Of the top 7, 6 are banks.
All dependent on interest income, government securities, and consumer overdrafts.
•Their large market caps don’t reflect innovation — they reflect their position in the debt cycle:
Government borrows. Banks buy bonds. Citizens pay taxes.
Rinse. Repeat.
•Their dominance is a symptom of:
•A low-innovation economy
•Lack of capital markets depth
•A government that crowds out private borrowing

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🧅 Layer 3: Vanishing Private Enterprise
•Where are Kenya’s great private manufacturing or tech firms?
•EABL (Sh137B) is legacy colonial capital, now mostly Diageo-owned. It’s liquor + brand inertia.
•No new industrial giant. No energy innovator. No vertically integrated agro-exporter.

Absence speaks volumes.

Kenya’s capital markets don’t reward enterprise — they reward gatekeeping and government dependence.

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🧅 Layer 4: Market Cap ≠ Real Economy

This list does not reflect real economic pain:
•KES has lost 50%+ vs USD in 5 years.
•SMEs are being crushed by taxes, levies, and lack of credit.
•Inflation-adjusted wages are falling.
•These companies look “valuable” — but only in KES terms, which are melting.

A Sh819B company in 2025 might be worth less in USD than it was at Sh500B in 2020.

🧅 Layer 6: The Structural Lie of Diversification
•On paper, Kenya has multiple “sectors” in the NSE.
•In reality, it’s banks + Safaricom + everyone else bleeding.
•When the same players dominate the index for a decade, it signals capital is not being recycled into innovation — it’s being hoarded.

Kenya isn’t diversifying. It’s entrenching rentier incumbents.

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🧅 Layer 7: Global Investors Already Know This
•Foreign capital outflows from NSE have accelerated.
•Institutional investors prefer to buy Safaricom and FX out — not hold long-term KES risk.
•That’s why Safaricom trades like a bond and why no Kenyan unicorn gets NSE-listed.

The market itself doesn’t believe in its own future — it’s arbitraging currency erosion.

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�� Bottom Line:

Kenya’s capital markets are top-heavy, rent-seeking, and fiat-constrained.

[Tyler Wayne @tylerrwayne]

Sema

[Audrow Nash @audrow]

Software engineer career progression:

- Intern
- Junior engineer
- Senior engineer
- Staff engineer
- Farmer

Why is this?

[Kimmie Kimemz ✨ @shikimemia1]

Sura ya malaika x Aki sioni

[Tina Turtle 🐢 @tinaturttle]

Artists coming together to appear in one big music video in memoriam

[0x45 @0x45o]

If you are bored you can always:

- Build your own operating system
- Build your own game engine
- Build your database
- Build your compiler
- Build your virtual machine
- Build your web server

[Khoa Vu @KhoaVuUmn]

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."

Earlier that day:

[Benjamin Chan Threads @BenChanThreads]

League of Legends gave 3 unknown writers $250M to make them a Netflix series.

Everyone called them crazy.

6 years later, Arcane is one of the highest rated shows in history, with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Here's the game-changing psychology they used:

[Abhishek🌱 @Abhishekcur]

I am 🤯amazed by his writing skill
-such a really great article for beginners
-soon articles like this will come, love his passion for writing
-great article to understand LLM's

[GC Cooke @Gccooke]

Nvidia just released a $249 computer that will change AI forever.

It's called the Jetson Nano - a tiny device that can run AI models locally.

This means AI can run without connecting to the cloud.

And it's about to spark the biggest tech battle of our time:

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

If you understand this reference, you are one of us.