Kabiru 💀

"Personally, I’ve come to the conclusion that in Kenya, and probably in a lot of emerging markets, if you want to scale a SaaS business, your customer has to be the government. One tender can cover your whole year. The private market just isn’t there yet." Thoughts on this?

Even if you claim to be using your own money, this raises even more serious questions. How did you, Mr. President, who officially earns Ksh 1.4 million per month (about Ksh 17 million a year), accumulate Ksh 1.2 billion in personal disposable cash to build a private church on public property? It does not add up by any reasonable standard of income vs expenditure. Unless you can show audited personal business records or asset declarations proving legitimate sources of such immense wealth, the public is right to suspect misuse of office, kickbacks, or proceeds of corruption. Additionally, why would you build a personal church inside State House, which is public property, even if you paid for construction out of pocket? That amounts to using a public institution for personal or sectarian benefit it still violates the principle of separation between church and state, and it misuses state facilities for private religious purposes. In fact, using your personal money to build a church on public grounds is even more troubling: it suggests you see State House as your private domain to decorate as you wish, instead of respecting it as a neutral national institution that belongs to all Kenyans. Let’s also not forget that you are the same president whose administration has faced multiple allegations of corruption inflated tenders, unaccounted borrowing, suspicious procurement deals. So it is not unreasonable for Kenyans to question whether this ‘personal money’ is truly clean, or simply laundered through state contracts and kickbacks.

#FreeDrAustinOmondi #FreeJaprado #RejectFinanceBill2024

Excited to be in Vancouver for #AAAI24!😊 Presentation 1 of 2 done at the Doctoral Consortium. Presentation 2 of 2 will be at the Health Intelligence Workshop on Tuesday, where I have an accepted paper.

We’ve been working at Westlands school to help equip the teachers to apply the CBC music curriculum. Our director Moses Watatua led a training with teachers. This is something we’d love to do in other schools, support government schools in implementing the CBC music curriculum

@_bigzoo @FrankHook Always found “inflation adjustment” most ironic. GOK has direct impact & control of the economy; inflation. They literally just pass it down to us if they mess up. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@FrankHook Bought tokens today. Makes no sense

Currently - pun intended - for prepaid power, only 28% of what you pay is the token/units and the rest are levies and taxes.

Really insightful read by Shopify on Staff SWE AORs shopify.engineering/what-being-a-s…

we are celebrating @cynthiawandia today because she founded @getkwara, an online and mobile banking platform for financial cooperatives, credit unions and community banks. #IWD2023 #InternationalWomensDay

To celebrate #IWD2023, FintechPad recognises some of the few African women redefining & redesigning the masculine tag of innovation in the fintech industry. Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Stowe #fintech #womeninfintech #WomenInTech #InternationalWomensDay

@esoubihe Woah, exciting! 🎉 Would be great to have some baseline guides for novice & hobbyists 😉

Can't wait to share what we're building!

@_bigzoo @andyveeegee @SpaceYaTech

@andyveeegee @SpaceYaTech Metropol techs should respond to this one lmao cc @_akabiru

A question for Kenyan ICT officers who manage on-premise servers. Why do you prefer ports over subdomains? @SpaceYaTech

panic! vs. error in Rust #Rust #Rustpanic #Frontend #Webdev blog.logrocket.com/panic-vs-error…

Myself alongside @CharityKith will be hosting a new series of Twitter Spaces around the tech community in Africa. Our first episode hosts @kaka_ruto who will be speaking on how he grew his career and finally got a job abroad. Save the date below! twitter.com/i/spaces/1yNGa…

Power outages in Vihiga, Uasin Gishu and Nandi counties tomorrow

@_ryanmarvin @allanibutiti Perhaps we need to start sharing our work more? (more) Blogs, conferences and meetups could go a long way- compared to other communities we’re still quite reserved IMO

What would it take for Kenyan software engineers, product managers and designers to do indie stuff outside large organizations?

No more installating browser extensions or apps from App Store to help you acquire the color codes from a graphic or photo that you just can’t stop admiring 🎉 Not a macOS dev🧑🏾‍💻? Well, it’s easy to make a custom macOS Color Picker in 3️⃣ steps & with just one line of text 🙌🏾

@ngeshlew 😅 👇

@mauerbac @_akabiru 💯 🤣

Why do engineers only talk to me via Slack reactions... Me: Hey, can you fill this out Eng: 👀 Me: Did you see this cool new tool? Eng: ✅ Me: We reached X revenue goal!! Eng: 🥳