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mostly about programming, sometimes about more general issues in technology

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@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


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The people who think that there is a difference between front-end and back-end are significantly deluded. It’s all code guys. It’s sequence, selection, and iteration.


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i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur) quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never…


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> what 10x engineers actually look like

htmx_org's tweet image. > what 10x engineers actually look like

peak male performance

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SQLite has about 155,800 lines of code, and its test suite has roughly 92 million lines. That is ~590x more test code than actual code 🤯 This is the level of testing you need for a real production database. Here are some types of tests they run. Out-of-memory tests - SQLite…


AI can impact people's perception of affordability.

programmer_ke's tweet image. AI can impact people's perception of affordability.

Soon smartphones may have to ship with a warning label: "Anything you see on this screen could be fake. Independently verify any important information"


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Someone asked Gemini to imagine HackerNews frontpage 10 years in the future from now:

nileshtrivedi's tweet image. Someone asked Gemini to imagine HackerNews frontpage 10 years in the future from now:

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it’s honestly incredible to see software decline in real time these last couple of years i think there are different factors contributing to this nobody cares about the actual craft anymore, which is the consequence from: 1. leetcode interviews and faang interview style…

tekbog's tweet image. it’s honestly incredible to see software decline in real time these last couple of years 

i think there are different factors contributing to this

nobody cares about the actual craft anymore, which is the consequence from:
1. leetcode interviews and faang interview style…

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Looks like OS models are TAKING THE SHIP compared to a non-contest just a year ago according to “State of AI 2025” from @OpenRouterAI. @akashnet’s new AkashML platform delivers the best OS models w/ price per token rates that makes you question why you’re not on $AKT yet.

akashalpha_'s tweet image. Looks like OS models are TAKING THE SHIP compared to a non-contest just a year ago according to “State of AI 2025” from @OpenRouterAI.

@akashnet’s new AkashML platform delivers the best OS models w/ price per token rates that makes you question why you’re not on $AKT yet.

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Just in: Study on Agents in production DEBUNK 2025 as the 'year of the Agents'. Main take away paints a roster of Agents that cannot be trusted at scale resulting in agents that are simplistic w/ limited autonomy & humans to verify. Maybe 2026 will be the year of the Agents.

akashalpha_'s tweet image. Just in: Study on Agents in production DEBUNK 2025 as the 'year of the Agents'.

Main take away paints a roster of Agents that cannot be trusted at scale resulting in agents that are simplistic w/ limited autonomy & humans to verify.

Maybe 2026 will be the year of the Agents.

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We are aware of the issue impacting the availability of Cloudflare’s network. It was not an attack; root cause was disabling some logging to help mitigate this week’s React CVE. Will share full details in a blog post today. Sites should be back online now, but I understand the…



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Checks out.

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One last reminder, and I won't bring this up for the next 6 months at least 😇 Less than 24 hours left to get iximiuz Labs Premium with 50-75% OFF (depending on the regional PPP rate) Make yourself a gift if you're learning Linux, Docker, or Kubernetes labs.iximiuz.com/premium

iximiuz's tweet image. One last reminder, and I won't bring this up for the next 6 months at least 😇

Less than 24 hours left to get iximiuz Labs Premium with 50-75% OFF (depending on the regional PPP rate)

Make yourself a gift if you're learning Linux, Docker, or Kubernetes labs.iximiuz.com/premium

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iximiuz's tweet image. Black Friday on iximiuz Labs 🎉

Don't miss the unique opportunity to get:

- Full access to the official content collection
- Unlimited daily playground usage
- Larger VMs and faster network
- [NEW] Persistent playgrounds

...with 50% OFF at labs.iximiuz.com/premium

huh?

This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year. Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the…



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Any sufficiently complicated note taking program like Obsidian or Notion contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Emacs' org-mode.

valigo's tweet image. Any sufficiently complicated note taking program like Obsidian or Notion contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Emacs' org-mode.

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When your girlfriend asks why you're broke 💀


WordPress is really plugin driven development. Yikes!


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One of the less talked about benefits of Bitcoin mining to local communities: How it keeps residential power prices low This is a phenomenon observed around the world including, Texas, Norway, and now ... rural Kenya.

DSBatten's tweet image. One of the less talked about benefits of Bitcoin mining to local communities:

How it keeps residential power prices low

This is a phenomenon observed around the world including, Texas, Norway, and now ... rural Kenya.

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