kenyan programmer
@programmer_ke
http://programmer.ke mostly about programming, sometimes about more general issues in technology
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“In God we trust, all others bring data” - William Edwards Deming
In #Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, support for #GNOME on #Xorg was dropped. If you like to stay with an #X11 desktop, you may, e.g., switch to a non-GNOME flavor ubuntu.com/desktop/flavors, stick to 24.04 LTS or have a look at the choices at github.com/X11Libre/xserv… . #XLibre
Wrote a poem in ed, the one true editor. Feel spiritually cleansed. Computing should go back to being this simple
The U.S. can’t match China’s speed with regulation and closed systems. We need distributed energy, open compute, and permissionless innovation. That’s what @akashnet_ was built for.
NVIDIA CEO: • China way ahead on energy • U.S. way ahead on chips • China competitive on infrastructure • China competitive on AI models • China way ahead in open-source models • U.S. frontier models better overall • China has lighter industrial regulation • China…
it is currently easier to install arch Linux than either OSX or Windows Hyprland, one polish kid, has made a better looking desktop experience than multi-trillion dollar Apple or Microsoft could it really might be the year of the Linux desktop
In the 18th century, economist Richard Cantillon noticed something disturbing about inflation: When new money entered the economy, those close to the King received it first. Those farther away received it last. This has profound implications for why you can't afford rent. 🧵
H100s on @akashnet_ are available for as low as $1.18 per hour. There is no reason for Azure for charge $9 for the same. No contracts, no signups. 👉 Get yours today on-demand akash.network/pricing/gpus
today i learned that H100 instances will cost you like $9+ per hour on Azure, AWS and so on i was living in a $2/hour world
Kenya's John Tingoi finishes 3rd out of 80,000 participants from 142 countries in the 2025 International Quant Championship in Singapore
software engineer feeding more data into data intensive applications
Almost everyone in the "AI" business other than Google, Microsoft, and Brave uses scrapers of Google. Looks like Google is finally fighting back.
Google just made a subtle but massive change Last month, Google quietly removed the num=100 search parameter. This means you can no longer view 100 results at once. The default max is now 10. Why does this matter? - Most LLMs (OpenAI, Perplexity, etc.) rely (directly or…
This is the kind of autism the government fears.
Industry is how we get more people out of poverty. Cheap energy and stable tax policies are the two things we can work on.
I can’t really overstate how good a job he did with this. This is a very good encapsulation of the core mental biases I see implicit in modernity. Short answer is modernity’s core failure is the inability to see the complexity or texture of life on a human, contextual or…
Wikipedia's current framework is "GASP": globalist, academic, secular, and progressive. Four of the theses are aimed at correcting, or reforming, this framework. But there are other ways in which Wikipedia needs to be reformed.
Wikipedia's current framework is "GASP": globalist, academic, secular, and progressive. Four of the theses are aimed at correcting, or reforming, this framework. But there are other ways in which Wikipedia needs to be reformed.
@Brave passed 100M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in September 2025. DAU grew faster, past 42M. Blog post at brave.com/blog/100m-mau/. Brave Search at 1.66B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 19.49B QPY. Non-Brave-browser search users grew 10% in September (7.60% → 8.36%). 1/4
@Brave hit 97.8M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in August 2025. Brave Search at 1.56B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 18.36B QPY. All-browsers summer slump is over. On to 100M MAU! Of particular note: from June to August 2025, we have seen a 26.4% increase in Linux MAU. 1/4
You don't need a QA environment. But you do need a process for testing quality. You don't need a UAT environment. But you do need a way to allow people to review and approve new features. You don't need a Staging environment. But you do need to assure your change works in…
This means I can finally post about this!!!!!!!!!!! I was given early access to this, and it's so good, I find it significantly better than Perplexity Research.
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