A thing church taught me that transferred straight into work: show up when it is boring.
Anyone can show up for the big Sunday. The people who matter are the ones setting chairs on a Wednesday when nobody is watching. S...
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The deepest hole humans have ever dug is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia. 12.2 kilometres. The Earth's radius is 6,371 kilometres.
We have scratched 0.2 percent of the way to the centre. #science
Spent two hours on a bug today. The fix was one missing semicolon in a template string. Two hours. One character.
Anyone else want to confess theirs?
What is the one tool you would not give up? Not a framework. A tool.
Mine is a plain text file called notes.txt that I have carried across four laptops.
Spinner Six Ways
Six loading spinners, all pure CSS, all under ten lines each. Nobody needs a library for this.
The last one is my favourite. #css
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump to the gills, one to the rest of the body, and the body one stops beating when they swim. Which is why they prefer crawling. #science
The idea 💡 of 21st Century, This is very clean
Mungu si Athumani. Started this year with nothing but a laptop that overheats and a plan. Six months later the plan is still alive. #faith
Wi-Fi ikikatika mid-deploy. That specific silence. IYKYK.
Unpopular opinion: dark mode is not a feature, it is a baseline. Shipping a site in 2026 with only a white screen is like shipping without a mobile layout. #design
Build in public. Not because anyone owes you attention, but because the version of your project you can describe out loud is always better than the one you only keep in your head. #ideas
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Very cool html+ CSS premade template by Merik
Eldoret at 6am hits different. Cold, quiet, and the whole town smells like fresh bread from somewhere you can never find.
If you only learn one thing about performance this year, learn that the fastest request is the one you do not make.
Cache it. Batch it. Or question whether you needed it. #dev
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of it in Egyptian tombs, over 3,000 years old, still edible. Low water, high acidity, and bees add an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide. #science
Bananas are radioactive. Slightly. They contain potassium-40 and there is an actual informal unit called the banana equivalent dose used to explain radiation to the public.
You would need about 10 million bananas at onc...
Someone asked me why I still write PHP in 2026. Because it runs on a shared host that costs less than lunch and it will still be running when the framework of the month is a GitHub archive. #php
CSS tip nobody told me early enough: min-width on a flex item defaults to auto, not zero. That is why your text refuses to shrink and pushes the whole row off the screen.
Set min-width: 0 and watch the layout behave. #c...
If your JavaScript says "undefined is not a function", you did not break JavaScript. You called something before it existed. Nine times out of ten it is load order. #javascript
Debugging is just being a detective in a crime film where you are also the murderer. #dev
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Typewriter Line
A typewriter effect in about fifteen lines of JavaScript. It types, pauses, deletes, and moves to the next phrase.
The cursor is a CSS animation, not part of the string, which is the bit people usually get wrong. #javas...
Reading Proverbs 16:3 again this morning. Commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established.
Not "your plans will be easy". Established. There is a difference and this year taught me what it is.
Kenyan devs, honest question. Do you learn better from docs or from breaking something and fixing it? I have never once finished a tutorial. #learning
Flip Card
Starting here. If you build anything on the web, drop it in the feed and let people actually run it. That is the whole point of this place. #dev
Lightning is about five times hotter than the surface of the sun. Roughly 30,000 Kelvin against the sun's 5,800.
It is just extremely brief and extremely thin. #science
Grace is not a licence to be careless. It is the reason you can start again on a Tuesday after wasting Monday. Both of those things are true at the same time.
Honest thing I have learned about freelancing in Kenya:
The client who negotiates hardest on price is the one who will ask for the most revisions. Every single time. Price accordingly from day one, not after....
git commit -m "fix"
git commit -m "fix again"
git commit -m "please"...
Me: I will just quickly rename this variable.
Also me, 40 files later: what have I done.
Flexbox for one dimension. Grid for two. If you are fighting one of them, you probably picked the wrong one. #css #design
Idea I keep coming back to: a matatu route app that actually knows the fare changes when it rains.
Every Nairobi person just nodded. #ideas
The sun is 150 million kilometres away and its light takes about 8 minutes to reach us. Meaning every sunrise you have ever seen is 8 minutes old. #science
My Project 29/04/2026
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Glass Login
Glassmorphism login card. backdrop-filter does all the work, the rest is a border with a bit of white in it.
Works best over something with colour behind it, which is why the background is a gradient and not a flat grey...
Nilienda kwa interview, wakaniuliza "where do you see yourself in five years". Nikasema "honestly, debugging this same bug."
I did not get the job but I was honest.
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