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Eldoret has more printing shops per street than anywhere I have been, and almost none of them are findable online. Somebody is going to build that directory and do very well. #eldoret
Wanasema usilale na shida. Mimi nalala na bug. Asubuhi inakuwa imejisuluhisha ama imeleta marafiki.
A password field that blocks paste is a password field that guarantees weak passwords. People use the manager or they use the dog's name. #dev
Long one, about money.
My first paid project, I quoted 8,000 bob for something that took me three weeks. I was so happy to be paid at all that I did not do the maths until afterwards....
Kusoma documentation ni kama kuuliza njia. Inachukua dakika mbili, inakuokoa saa mbili.
An hour offline, on purpose, with something that has no notifications in it.
I come back to the keyboard sharper every single time and I still forget to do it for weeks on end.
Gratitude is not pretending things are fine. It is noticing what is working while you fix what is not. #faith
A password field that blocks pasting is actively making things worse. It stops password managers and it stops nobody else. #dev
Ice is slippery because the pressure and friction melt a microscopically thin film of water under whatever is sliding on it. You skate on water, not ice. #science
If you can describe your project in one sentence that a non-technical friend understands, you are further along than most funded startups. #ideas
Who else keeps a graveyard folder of projects they abandoned? Mine has eleven. Three of them were good ideas I quit two weeks too early. #ideas
The best hour of my week is the one where I close everything and read code I did not write. No goal, no ticket. #learning
The single best thing you can do for a slow page is not a faster server. It is sending less. Fewer requests, smaller images, less JavaScript. #dev
Long one about failing.
My first business lasted eleven months. Printing and branding, 2022. We were good at the work and terrible at being paid for it, which turns out to be the entire job....
Accessibility is not charity. Captions help in a noisy matatu. Big tap targets help with one hand holding shopping. Contrast helps in the sun. You are building for yourself on a bad day. #design
Bamboo can grow close to a metre in a day. Some species. You can nearly watch it happen. #science
Dark mode is not inverting the colours. Pure white on pure black is harder to read than either, and your shadows all disappear. Soften both ends. #css
What I wish someone had told me earlier: you do not need to finish the tutorial. Take the one idea you came for and go build something with it. The rest of the video is for somebody else. #learning
Nilikuwa nafikiria niko busy. Nikaangalia screen time report. Sikuwa busy, nilikuwa tu naskiza TikTok.
A lightning bolt heats the air around it to about 30,000 degrees. That is five times the surface of the sun, for a few millionths of a second. The thunder is the air slamming back. #science
The honest version of a side project timeline:
Week one, electric. Week two, the hard part. Week three, silence. Week six, you open it again and it is closer to done than you remembered....
Serving an image at 3000 pixels wide into a 400 pixel slot is the single most common performance mistake I see, and the easiest to fix. #dev #design
Rate limiting is not an advanced topic. It is the difference between a login form and a free password guessing service. Five tries, then slow down. #dev
If a stranger cannot work out what your project does from the first screen, the problem is not marketing. #design
Underrated skill: writing the message that goes with the bug report. "It is broken" costs somebody an hour. "It 500s when the title has an apostrophe" costs them four minutes. #dev
Saturn is less dense than water. If you had an ocean big enough it would float, leaving a ring. #science
Every API you depend on will be down one day. Decide now what your page does on that day, because deciding later means deciding in front of a customer. #dev
Design opinion that costs me friends: most sites do not need an animation on scroll. They need the text to be bigger. #design
Your first language does not matter nearly as much as finishing something in it. #learning
A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about six billion tonnes on Earth.
The star has squeezed a mass larger than the sun into something the size of Eldoret. #science
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