Sylvance

Father. Dreamer. Software engineer. Philosopher. We are here for a season and a reason.

[cheruiyotkb @cheruiyotkb]

Though I don't know your net pay, I will advise the millennial way:

•Join a good SACCO, save Sh 5,000 p.m. In 5 years you have Sh 402K (if earnings are compounded) and can borrow a Sh 1.2M loan to start an agri-business or other you understand well.

•Open a fixed income fund account and contribute Sh 7,000 p.m - will net Sh 560K @ 11% p.a in 5 years, and be a safety cushion for personal or business use.

•By age 40, the business should be up and running, giving good passive income alongside growing SACCO and FIF portfolio.

[Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya]

I asked Kimi K3 to design a robot for deep sea research

Here's what it came up with

A jellyfish inspired robot with tentacles built from a hexagonal nanostructured lattice, designed to withstand extreme pressure.

[Legion ☭ #RejectRuto🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇰🇪🇮🇷 @LegionnaireNo1]

New World Order agendas loading. They've done this in the UK with digital IDs under the guise of child safety. We are the lab rats for an even more insidious version of this. Reject!

[Mihr Thakar @MihrThakar]

10 Reasons Why I Hate @TheAbojani:

1. Every time I have some money and want to go for sherehe, their posts about saving for tomorrow and protecting yourself for emergencies prevents me from going all in.

2. Their stock appreciation tables show me on what I've missed out on.

[Matt Silverlock 🐀 @elithrar]

being able to run OpenCode inside a Durable Object is very, very cool.

no need to spin up a full sandbox for agents, especially when many only need a small set of tools, MCP servers, a browser API and/or webfetch.

faster, cheaper (pick two).

[evansoo @elangat016]

TUJIFUNZE KISWAHILI:
1. Charger - kimemeshi
2. Remote - kitenzambali
3. Password - nywila
4. Akala (bladder shoes) - kirikiri
5. Passion fruit - karakara
6. Kangaroo - bukunyika
7. Fridge - jokofu
8. Juice - sharubati
9. Chips - vibanzi
10. PHD - uzamifu
11. Masters degree - uzamili
12. Degree - shahada
13. Diploma - stashahada
14. Certificate - astashahada
15. Keyboard - kicharazio
16. Scanner - mdaki
17. Flash disk - diski mweko
18. Mouse (for a computer) - kiteuzi
19. Floppy disk - diski tepetevu
20. Computer virus - mtaliga
21. Distillation - ukenekaji
22. Evaporation - mvukizo
23. Synthesis - uoanishaji
24. Oesophagus - umio
25. Greenhouse - kivungulio
26. Femur - fupaja
27. Germ cell - selizazi
28. Humus - mboji
29. Nector - mbochi/ntwe
30. Nutrients - virutubisho
31. Crystal - fuwele
32. Appetizers - vihamuzi
33. ATM - kiotomotela
34. Business card - kadikazi
35. Scratch card - kadi hela
36. Simcard - kadiwia/mkamimo
37. Memory card - kadi sakima
38. Microwave - tanuri ya miale
39. Mobile phone - rununu/rukono
40. Stapler - kibanizi
41. Laptop - kipakatalishi
42. Power saw - msumeno oto
43. Duplicating machine - kirudufu
44. Photocopier - kinukuzi
45. Cocktail party - tafrija mchapulo
46. Air conditioner - kiyoyozi
47. Calculator - kikokotozi
48. Lift - kambarau
49. Reaction - radiamali
50. Toothpick - kimbaka

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

Reimagining Kikuyu folklore. Starting with the giants/ogres. Its a thread. First up Irimũ rĩa Nyakondo (The Basket Cyclops) A colossal, muscular humanoid titan covered in rough hair and draped in a giant giraffe hide. He stalks the misty highland forests with an insatiable hunger and a very specific physical curse.
Nyakondo is defined by a single, massive cyclopean eye burning with a fiery orange glow in the center of his forehead. Slung across his torso is a magical, ancient kiondo (sisal basket). It never fills up, no matter how many cattle or uprooted banana trees he crams into it.

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

🚨 WAKE UP, KENYA!!

ISPs have warned of a threat massive surveillance

Ruto’s govt is continuing with its push for a new law that forces Safaricom, Zuku & every ISP to put an “internet meter” on YOUR connection

This could enable tracking every single site you visit, every second you’re online, and then handing that data straight to the state.

This isn’t about billing. This is about building a digital cage so they can watch activists, journalists, opposition leaders, and anyone who dares criticise them in real time.

One click against the government, and you’re already flagged.

They’re turning the internet into a spy tool while pretending it’s “consumer protection.”

We should speak up now before it’s too late…

[Abojani Investment 🇰🇪🇺🇬🇹🇿 @TheAbojani]

To avoid forgetting about your investments and to ensure that you are staying on top of your financial goals:

✔️Keep good records of your investment accounts, like statements, login info, and contact details.
✔️Check your financial statements regularly, even if you think your investments don't need constant watching.
✔️If you can, consolidate your investment accounts to make it easier to keep track.
✔️Make sure your service provider has your current contact information to get important updates.
✔️Share your financial info with someone you trust, like a family member or advisor, who can help if something unexpected happens.

[Eric Falcão @efalcao]

how's it going with @Cloudflare email sending? what's good? what's bad? we want to know!

[Grace Clarke @graceclarke]

Inspired by this, I made my own: "eli5-for-grownups."

It's like @trq212's, and because I'm a picky consistency freak, it has extra direction on what eli5 means and doesn't.

Should you like, here it is:
https://t.co/bkVN7Usuhz

[MUHAMMAD ONYANGO @Moha001_Onyango]

M-PESA solved a very real problem in Kenya and that is moving money in a country where millions of people were outside the formal banking system.

But the mistake is thinking the world stopped there.

Brazil’s Pix processed almost 80 billion transactions in 2025, while India’s UPI was doing more than 23 billion transactions in a single month by May 2026. These systems are evolving around instant settlement, interoperability, QR, Open Finance and increasingly sophisticated digital payments.

That is the part you miss when you only look at Kenya.

M-PESA was revolutionary. It deserves its flowers. But technology keeps moving, and what was groundbreaking 15 years ago isn’t automatically the frontier today.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When you look for ways to make agents be more efficient at building good, quality, useful software: you start to discover (or re-discover) software architecture and programming practices that are decades old

Shallow vs deep modules
Tracer bullets
The surgeon team

25+ year old books suddenly become very useful to work better with these AI coding agents

How ironic is this?

(This thought comes after we talked about just this with @mattpocockuk. It will be a podcast episode)

[M A G U N G A @theMagunga]

I told Mama Lihudu that if her son keeps up with his mischief, I will send him to Mukiibi’s Educational Institute for Sons of African Gentlemen.

And the she asked me, “hio shule iko wapi?”

She is an 8-4-4 millennial btw. How is that even possible?

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

God’s Eye View V1 is open source. It feels like a spy simulator in your browser -- except the underlying data is real, and you can talk to the planet too.

Track planes, ships, satellites, traffic cameras, and critical infrastructure. Use voice mode to ask what’s happening, annotate the 3D world, or jump into a plane’s cockpit.

Already a ton to explore. Code is MIT licensed, so add new layers, extend the voice agent, break things, and show me what you cook.

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

Run a free temporary email service on Cloudflare’s free tier.

- Zero cost to operate
- Fast email processing
- Optional per-address passwords

Explore it here:
https://t.co/XmZvCFdXmS

[harsh @GarshytHoel]

system-atlas: a skill that builds an explorable isometric map of your codebase / agent / pipeline from one data file

arranging the system visually does something for my brain that a wall of text doesn't

i've found it way more useful to build up understanding of a system or a large change through these progressive disclosure style atlases than through docs.

hover to read, click to pin, step inside a box to watch it run, click a packet to see the actual payload. chapters reveal the system a few boxes at a time instead of all at once. the md twin is generated from the same file so it can't drift

works from both sides.
- building a new architecture and moving pieces around visually before anything is written
- pointed it at a 67 pr stack (don't ask how i got there) and finally understood how the thing fit together

it also keeps track of every open question in the system. as you clarify or improve things the answers land in the atlas, so "wait did we decide that" has an answer instead of a scroll through slack.

[Megan Reynolds 👩‍💻 @meganreyno]

WAL Street

[Bryl Lim @bryllim_]

Generated over a 1000 svgs on my workout app with @thsottiaux ‘s codex with Image Gen

[Matt Silverlock 🐀 @elithrar]

big fan of this approach.

• “build a call graph of our changes vs current main and explain each, including any breaking changes”
• “explain & justify each test in our test suite. stack rank tests by value and provide candidates for removal”

force the agent to justify itself.