Yaseen Hamdulay

@sixhobbits It was mostly an obvious phishing email :( A phishin email saying "hey, you need to pay customs". And because those emails always kinda look like phishing mails to me and because i was expecting one of those mails this week I fell for it :(

@MrHamdulay ouch - more details to help others not fall for the same?

Just fell for an obvious card fraud scam and lost R25k. It's annoyingly hard to distinguish legitimate customs payments from a scam.

@voteblake @tqbf Same. I learnt so much from it. I wish there was a clone or something i could play again today. I'm sure I'd learn a lot more.

@tqbf Microcorruption is so cool, but man, I still think about stockfighter all the time.

We wrote Microcorruption together.

um... with all these oil refineries blowing up should we bet on sasol again?

🚀 Introducing the Qwen 3.5 Small Model Series Qwen3.5-0.8B · Qwen3.5-2B · Qwen3.5-4B · Qwen3.5-9B ✨ More intelligence, less compute. These small models are built on the same Qwen3.5 foundation — native multimodal, improved architecture, scaled RL: • 0.8B / 2B → tiny, fast, great for edge device • 4B → a surprisingly strong multimodal base for lightweight agents • 9B → compact, but already closing the gap with much larger models And yes — we’re also releasing the Base models as well. We hope this better supports research, experimentation, and real-world industrial innovation. Hugging Face: huggingface.co/collections/Qw… ModelScope: modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…

The timing of the rumours of the new deepseek models is interesting. Qwen has just announced their new models and Deepseek is rumoured to be releasing theirs now. I don't know if it's just a chinese new year thing or if the one is waiting for the other.

I hope the next deepseek model is distilling onto qwen3.5 medium models. The baseline qwen models already feel overpowered I can't imagine how it's going to function as a distillation target.

Both Amazon and Google don't use etcd in their hosted clusters opting to use internal optimised stores. Wonder what that implies about how we use it in OSS land.

Over the last year I managed to turn ~$50 into 5 ETH with magic internet beans! 👨‍🌾 I ran a long-tail MEV strategy that involved on-chain coordination around Beanstalk's hourly Bean emissions. Read the full blog post here: ashiq.co.za/posts/The-Sunr…

Things that I have been explaining for almost a decade that i did not expect: 1. readiness vs liveness check 2. pod lifecycle: sigterm then wait for all connections to complete 3. less code is better. (this is still true).

@arekfurt A lot of them have already gone through this process. Us-east-1 AWS outage used to always be a global outage. And now it is isn't!

Should every other major cloud company be paying very close attention to CF's travails, eager to urgently learn and apply lessons to make their own infrastructure more resilient? Sure. How many actually are? Hopefully, maybe at least some.

Cloudflare has some serious problems with the foundational fragility of its current infrastructure, problems that it is now rapidly attempting to correct. But one wonders how many other very big players are in a similar state but just haven't been exposed yet by the right events.

A WhatsApp promise: “R30k tech job in Bangkok, flight paid” lured 41 South Africans across Thailand’s border into Myanmar’s KK Park. Their hopeful smiles quickly turned to shackles and despair. Sixteen-hour pig-butchering (fake romance → crypto slaughter) and investment scams (phony platforms that vanish with deposits). Miss a quota? The victims received threats like: “Your kidney pays. Your family gets silence.” Beatings, shocks, mouldy rice, wormy slop kept a 1000 captives in line. On 22 October 2025: Four South African men, who were isolated from the others, secretly formed a prayer circle by the gate. Others joined. They charged the guards, smashed the gate and a 1,000 fled. Six reached Thailand. 35 remain stranded in war-torn Myanmar. DIRCO is coordinating urgently with NGOs and Interpol. The fight continues.

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Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

also, composable cli tools >> mcps. If you're going to make an informational MCP it's probably better to make a good cli tool first.

claude code has been a complete gamechanger. It's essentially my entire CLI and coding flow now.

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My macbook shocks me when it's plugged into my monitor and fully charged. what should i do?

@lauriewired "Regex on the human proteome" is not something you usually read, really cool