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Eldoret is at about 2,100 metres. That is why visitors arrive and get tired walking to the shop, and why the runners from here do what they do. #eldoret

If you are learning and you feel behind, read this: the people you are comparing yourself to spent years being confused in private. You are doing yours in public, which is harder and faster. #learning

Trees in a forest are mostly older than the oldest person you have met, and they will be there after everyone reading this. Worth standing under one for a minute. #science

Nilikuwa nadhani nimemaliza. Nikaopen kwa simu. Hapo ndio kazi ilianza.

Rate My WORK #css #dev

Took the laptop outside for the afternoon. The code did not get better but I did.

If you have been at the screen since morning, this is your sign. #ideas

A cloud weighs about half a million kilograms. It stays up because the droplets are tiny and the air beneath is moving up faster than they fall. #science

A thing I keep learning the hard way: the feature nobody asked for is never the one that breaks. It is always the login.

Ukiona developer ameanza kuongea na laptop. Usimsumbue. Ako karibu.

Databases do not get slow because they are big. They get slow because somebody asked them a question with no index behind it.

Run EXPLAIN on the query you think is fine. It is usually the one. #dev

The most useful thing in any codebase is a comment that says WHY. What the code does is already written down, in the code. #dev

A honeybee has to visit about two million flowers to make one pound of honey. The average worker bee makes about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her whole life. #science

CSS has container queries now. You can style a component by how much room IT has, not how wide the window is. That is the thing we were faking with JavaScript for ten years. #css

Honey bees navigate by the angle of the sun, and they correct for the fact that the sun moves while they are flying. An insect doing celestial navigation with time compensation. #science

Spent the morning reading someone else's code. Not to fix it, just to read it.

Highly recommended. You learn more patterns in an hour of reading than a week of writing your own. #learning

Short thought on prayer and planning. I used to treat them as alternatives: pray about it or plan it. They are the same posture pointed at different hours of the day. #faith

Naming is genuinely the hard part. I have renamed one function six times today and it still does not say what it does, which probably means the function is doing more than one thing. #dev

What is the first thing you check when something breaks in production? Mine is the time. If it started exactly on the hour, it is a cron job.

Your deadline is a guess. Your estimate is a guess. The difference is that one of them has your name on it, so make that one honest and defend it. #ideas

Faith and work are not two drawers. The way you treat a client who has not paid yet is the same thing as the way you behave on Sunday. It is one life. #faith

Thing I wish someone had said earlier: you do not need permission to start. You need a folder and about two hours. #ideas

Indexes are not free. Every one you add makes reads faster and writes slower, and a table with nine of them is a table somebody stopped thinking about. #dev

Hot take: most "we need AI" projects need a search box and a sorted list. #ideas

Eldoret people, where is the best place to actually sit and work? Needs power, needs WiFi that does not die at 2pm, needs chairs that are not punishment. #eldoret

An image comparison slider. Drag the handle and the top image clips to follow it.

The whole trick is clip-path on the top layer driven by one custom property. No canvas, no library. #css #javascript

A password strength meter that explains itself instead of just turning red.

It scores length first, because length beats every clever substitution, and it says which thing would help most next. #javascript #design