Warren 🤘🏼

Proud Father, Loving Husband, CSA at @Microsoft, Open-Source Enthusiast, Apple Junkie and lover of Technology. Organizer of SA Azure User Group

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

@steipete I was wondering why my battery was toast as of late

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

I am excited to announce we are back!
Azure User Group is happening in May!
Come join us and learn how to become 100x more productive with AI workflow for Architects
Quintin de Kok this is gonna be 🔥

Stop coding with Copilot. Start working with it. https://t.co/ijsxMHttV9 #Meetup via @Meetup

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

South Africa’s economic timeline is the craziest self-sabotage I’ve ever seen…

They were hitting 8% GDP growth while sanctioned by the entire world

Then sanctions lifted → they passed 140+ race-based laws and quotas… and completely nuked their own economy

Now they’re sitting at 32% unemployment, zero investment, and a massive brain drain

Turns out when you criminalize meritocracy to force equal outcomes, you just destroy whatever was actually working

No companies want to invest. Chinese and Korean firms have already left

They nuked their own economy by choosing racist laws over meritocracy

Their game plan: legislate prosperity by making everyone equally poor

It’s straight-up economic suicide dressed up as justice

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Iron Dome for cats 😂

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

NEWS: Senior Government Members Lie About Starlink in South Africa

Parliamentary chair Khusela Diko claims Starlink’s FREE high-speed internet for 5,000 rural schools “brings nothing to the table” and “won’t move the needle an inch.”

The Truth: Starlink is putting up R500 million of its own cash for zero-cost kits, lightning-fast internet, and full maintenance, forever.

This connects 2.4 million rural kids in deep countryside areas where cables and towers can’t reach. Kids get online classes, free learning videos, homework help, and real skills for the future. Teachers access better resources. Entire villages finally join the digital world, boosting education, jobs, and hope where it’s needed most.

@elonmusk is stepping up with real help for free while politicians downplay it. Stop the lies — approve Starlink NOW!

[Microsoft Azure @Azure]

Digital sovereignty… it’s about giving organizations the controls needed without limiting access to cloud & AI innovation.

That's why Microsoft is pleased to have been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Sovereign Cloud Platforms, Q2 2026: https://t.co/gSxxQzrWYX

[Humi @byteHumi]

lmao I can't stop laughing

claude-code has a "Frustrated User Detection"

There's a regex that detects when you're angry
( fully hard coded btw)

When triggered, it changes Claude's behavior/UI state.

Claude literally knows when you're cussing at it.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Super excited to see @Microsoft getting involved and helping to make MS Teams top notch for @openclaw!

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

First project I I was involved in shipping! 🚢
Free token, API credits and security scanner for hard working open source maintainers.

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

@qatarairways the sad thing is that the codeshare airline is so bad I won’t fly qatar again because I am scared of the other shoddy airlines you may use.

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

@qatarairways first flight, I loved the flight with starlink & both flights to Riyadh were easy.
I figured let’s fly using the airline again to India, well, no starlink on the long flight, paid for internet that didn’t even work. indigo codeshare is a flying sardine can! 🤮🤮🤮

[Thato Mokoena @MsThatoM]

@RonaldWG @DJLadyLea @Makro_SA @warrendt Hey @carteblanchetv @Anele @wendyknowler @Powerfm987 @ewnupdates please help us. Makro doesn’t pay back refunds nor does it honor its extended warranty agreements. Me personally haven’t had a working stove in 3 weeks. Many waiting for refunds for months @TheNCC_RSA

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

Warren gave Makro 1 star via @hellopetercom https://t.co/KWcJhlJ174

[Carike Botha 🇿🇦 #mvpbuzz @Carike_B]

🚀 Calling devs, architects & makers in #JHB!

Join us for the #CopilotDeveloperCamp – Agent Edition

📢NOTE: Food vouchers will be shared with the first 75 people to arrive Friday morning. 😎

📍 Microsoft Bryanston (JHB)
📅 Friday, 30 Jan
⏰ 08:30 – 15:00 SAST

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

@grok According to sentiment of Venezuela itself, how many people are happy that the president has been captured ?

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

Quiz Night - December Meetup 2025 https://t.co/1rfIfCM8YR #Meetup via @Meetup

[Gail Alfar @gailalfaratx]

Isn’t it ironic how Elon’s Starlink wants to drop free, unlimited, super-fast internet into 5,000 rural South African schools, but SA’s bureaucracy insists on saying no.

I think the 2.4 million kids in SA without proper access would benefit immensely. Starlink is even putting R500 million (about $29.4 million USD) on the table themselves, no cost to the government or the schools.
All they’re asking? A normal licence to operate in SA.

Here’s the crazy part: because of the 30% black-ownership rule (B-BBEE), ICASA keeps saying “nope.”

Starlink says, “Cool, we won’t sell shares, but we’ll just give you this giant school project instead,” using the same Equity Equivalent programme that Microsoft, Amazon and IBM already got approved with.

The Communications Minister is literally begging ICASA to accept it. Neighbours like Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are already connected and loving it.

Yet here we are, end of 2025, and those satellites are just flying over South Africa doing nothing while kids in the bundus still can’t pursue their dreams.

Come on, South Africa, don’t be the only country turning down free internet for millions of learners.
The irony, to me, is that Elon was born in South Africa, the very place that is telling him no to such a generopus offer!

[Leah Potgieter MP @LeahK28]

DA Sandton Councillors engaging with Helen Zille, our 2026 Mayoral candidate, on issues within their wards and the DA's plan to turn Joburg around 💙 Get registered, be a believer in Joburg - https://t.co/AMra74gxKv
#BelieveInJoburg

[Harpr “ゾロアーク”.🐸 @HarprTCG]

4/3/1 at World Championships 🤍
Lost my win and in, but had fun.
#DogBox 🏃‍➡️🤝🐕

Appreciate all the support, love you all. Genuinely never thought the channel would build a incredible community, from the bottom of my heart, thank you and ily🤍

[Warren 🤘🏼 @warrendt]

@HarprTCG Good luck friends!