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[Widi Oremo @widioremo]

How to get your first job as a software engineer after college/university

https://t.co/RelnThSL6f

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

A man must build 3 most important pillars of his life;

1. A body that can handle pressure.
2. A mind that doesn’t panic.
3. A skill that creates income.

Fail in one, and everything suffers.

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

"Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output."

If you're running AI agents you should be limiting their privileges and running them in a sandbox.

We seem to have forgotten any semblance of good security practices in the rush to adopt AI.

[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

Finance Bill 2026 is asking for permission to kill local businesses.

Right now, if your company makes profits, you can choose to:

• Reinvest profits back to business
• Or distribute it as dividends to shareholders

Finance Bill 2026 wants that removed. And be replaced by one hard rule. That,

• At least 60% of your profits can be treated as dividends by KRA. Even if you did NOT distribute anything.

“At least” means minimum.

KRA can push it to: 70%, 80% even 90% if they don't like you.

Read that again.

Meaning:

• If you reinvest all your profits in your business, KRA will says:

- Noo. At least 60% must be distributed to shareholders. And since you didn’t, we will assume you did, and demand dividend tax from you.

As a result:
• You are taxed on money you never paid out
• 5%–15% withholding tax on “deemed” dividends

Who is in cooked?
• SMEs reinvesting profits to expand
• Manufacturing businesses expanding
• Real estate firms with paper profits but no cash

Who is safe?
• SEZ companies
• NIFC companies
• REITs
Because their dividends are already exempt.

But for everyone else, this is a forced dividend rule.

The govt is no longer waiting for you to run your business. They want KRA to run it for you.

Is this fair taxation? Or forced extraction?

[MR DT @MrDtAFC]

Only two other clubs in England have this pull, but I'm not sure if they could even do this on a random Tuesday night when we weren't even playing. London is just different. The parade is going to be carnage. You have no idea!

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

10 Visuals that will change your life

1. Give yourself an investing MBA

[Mayank Agarwal 💡 @TheAIWorld22]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter
Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure

his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy

what he revealed:

> Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers
> sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits
> DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning
> Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale

Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers

this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

save this

[Nyakundi Report @NyakundiReport]

Protests over high fuel prices take a different turn in Kitale, Trans-Nzoia County as residents turn a section of the bus park into a running track, with touts and drivers engaging in relay races.

[Fernando @Franc0Fernand0]

To build a CS skillset that can't be replaced by an AI, you have to learn fundamentals.

That lets you do things that an AI still can't, because your brain learn how to think and work.

If you want to get better at fundamentals, read these 16 articles: (links below) ↓

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

7 Documentaries that will teach you more about money:

1) Inside Job

[Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 @sholard_mancity]

I saw someone ask, “What exactly has Edwin Sifuna done in the Senate?”

Fair question.

Because in Kenyan politics, too many leaders are loud on TV and silent in Parliament.

So I checked the record.

So far, Sifuna has tabled 3 Bills and pushed 3 major people-centred motions:

1. Sports (Amendment) Bill
To reform sports governance, improve accountability in sports bodies, and protect athletes from mismanagement.
2. Energy (Amendment) Bill
To address high electricity costs, strengthen regulation in the energy sector, and push for fairer pricing for consumers.

3. Office of the County Printer Bill
To institutionalize county publication of laws and notices, making county governments more transparent and accountable.

And his motions?

1. Abolishing parking fees in hospitals, malls and airports
Because access to hospitals and essential services should not come with punitive charges.
2. Inquiry into deputy governors’ welfare and protection
To address the growing trend of political frustration, humiliation and sidelining of deputy governors.
3. Electricity cost reduction reforms
To push government and regulators to lower the cost of power for households and businesses.

On top of that, he has been active in Senate oversight committees, questioning governors, including Johnson Sakaja, on accountability. He has also submitted several statements in the Senate. And much more is on the way.

This is why some of us support Sifuna.

Not because we are blind.
Not because of party loyalty.
But because we checked the receipts.

Before dismissing him, show us your MP or Senator’s record first.

[Adele @Adele_lide]

BABA's tackles were out of this world

[🥤𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 @_Afcbanks]

Seeing this and Gyökeres now scoring twice after reconnecting with his ex, has made me put two and two together.

He definitely sat both of them down in a room and explained them the importance of getting back together. 😂

[Captain Dominic Omondi @CaptainDominicO]

Babu Owino and Edwin Sifuna are very sharp boys. They have now come up with a new communication device said to be from Russia, costing about 5 million per device. This is the kind of technology that was only being used by Baba before.

Right now, things have changed. You can’t easily know where they are, what they are saying, or even who they are talking to. Their communication is tight, private, and well organized.

These leaders are clearly thinking ahead. They understand the game has changed, and they are moving with strategy. In today’s politics, information is power, and the one who controls communication controls the direction.

Babu and Sifuna are not just making noise, they are moving smart.

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann, on why engineers don't get to ignore ethics just because the work is technical — a theme he felt strongly enough about to address in both editions:

“I felt that ethics had been quite ignored as a concern during my time in industry.

Especially in startups, people were very focused on building a product that their customers would love and deprioritized ethical questions in the process.

For example, with consumer facing products, it might be that the products are very much geared towards essentially data harvesting, collecting behavioural data, because that's what can be monetized in the form of advertising.

There seemed to be very little reflection on what was good and bad about these sorts of things.

I really wanted to encourage a bit of thinking there. I didn’t want to prescribe a particular approach, but to point out there is this thing such as data protection legislation now, which we do have to think about in the architecture of our data systems and there is an ethical responsibility.”

[Scotty Gooner @clockending]

Today was always going to be tough, against a quality team and after a midweek game while they have rested. Timing is everything. I feel bad for the sane Arsenal fans who are going to have to deal with the usual plastic moaners for the next week.

The title is far from over, having been here before, we need to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves down.

#Arsenal

[🇳🇴 kimmoFC @kimmoFC]

Sad. Disappointed. But encouraged and optimstic.
We have so much to play for and I recognize my team again. We can do this.

[Widi Oremo @widioremo]

@kahome_steve Is it possible to borrow against stocks /bonds ? How would that compare with borrowing against an apartment/plot of land ?

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

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[CPA Wachira Joseph @WashiraX]

Kenyan tax law is tricky, and sometimes entertaining.

There are guys called H-N-F.
High Networth Freelancers.

They earn in dollars. Think in dollars. And price everything in dollars.

They have made life particulary difficult for agents. I heard one casually say.

- I get the rent is Ksh 180k, but how much is that in dollars?

And before the agent could reach for the calculator. He told him to forget about it.

But now,

In Kenya, taxes are crazy.

A freelancer earning 10M annually,

Pay taxes worth 3M shillings.

• That is 30%.

They do not like that. So they get creative.

They look for low-tax countries:

- Dubai, Mauritius, cayman islands, etc.

They register brief case companies there.

- As sole directors & sole shareholders.

Clients pay directly to those companies.

The company pays Zero or very low tax.

• Then sends money to Kenya as dividends. Withholding tax about ~5%

- So tax drops from 30% to 5%.

Same 10m. Tax now 500,000.

But unknown to them. There is one dangerous sentence chilling quietly in Kenyan tax law.

It reads:

• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya, is a Kenyan resident company.

Meaning:
- You own the company in Cayman
- But run it from your laptop in Nairobi

That is a Kenyan company.

And Kenyan companies must pay Kenyan taxes.

So one day KRA audits the freelancer. He pays zero taxes in Kenya.

He says he earns dividend from his Cayman company.

KRA asks for the registration documents. And finds he is the sole director.

- KRA Taxes the company in Kenya
- Adds penalties for tax evasion
- And goes for him as the representative to pay

Lesson.

• Structure your offshore company properly.

• Or KRA will structure it for you.