I always try to code manually on Sundays to remember my skills. No Claude, codex or DeepSeek. Just me and VS Code.

As a dev, you eventually learn a hard truth: there isn't always much money in software development. You'll meet clients making millions. They'll spend thousands on meetings, subscriptions, and other bills, yet bargain with you over hundreds for a solution that could generate or save them far more. Even when you successfully build it, you might be shocked by their cash flow and the amount of money moving through the system. The reality? We're replaceable. That's how many clients, vibe coders and even employers see us. My advice: never beg. Diversify.

Dear new techie 👨‍💻 Don’t wait for someone to hand you a big project Pick one product and build it long enough for the complexity to find you That’s where the real learning starts You don’t need the perfect architecture on day one Build. Learn. Refactor. Repeat: Wait n see🚀

Craftsmanship The journey to the final product is just as valuable as the final product, if not more valuable. Savour the moment fellow engineers Savour the journey

Tech Chicken-and-egg problem 👩🏿‍💻 Know how to code, but no one has hired you yet? The best piece of advice I received was build something people use You get actionable feedback for your builds then iterate Hired from my own repo, a sports engine data pipeline that I use daily!

Tech courses aren't a waste of time I spent 3 years coding JavaScript, building projects, and recently finished The Odin Project I just got hired to build portals and systems with .NET. Courses won’t do the work for you, but learning + building + consistency can open doors🚀

Super excited folks 🤭 From building my own systems to getting hired to build systems professionally. #SystemsDeveloper 🧑🏾‍💻🚀 We now look forward to some new codebases in @dotnet A new programming chapter ✊

I don’t understand why people say it’s dead. Maybe there are fewer jobs. But I still want to spend a weekend alone with my IDE, coding an entire farming game by hand. Not for money. Not for a job. Just to make art.

Pre mpesa API days, we built a bot that ran on a windows VM, taught it how to open a browser, navigate to the mpesa website, pick a previously FTPd excel file, picked transactions and manually created B2C requests. Reconciliation was a nightmare 😔😔. When Mpesa G2 arrived in 2015 it was such a relief.

Separating hooks from services and components makes it easier to navigate React projects, all logic is handled by a custom hook which never interacts with backend APIs which are handled by the service file, now components should only deal with styling...make it easier

The smarter you are the more of a loser you will be. To be gifted with an intellect that can comprehend complex problems at a greater speed and reach, also means to be cursed with the capability to generate enough sophisticated possibilities that will make you surrender real opportunities to hypothetical dangers. Your imagination dominates your judgement and paralyzes your action.

The quality of whatever you vibe code is based on your experience. Ai can only do what it is told and what you tell it depends on how skilled you are.

Kukuwa software engineer sai ni kama kuuza nguo, anyone can do it. If you have a sibling doing courses like IT or comp science and still in campus, tell them to focus on things like Networking and cyber security, apo they're a bit safe from saturation and AI.

Frontend Debugging gets harder in production🐛 Different browsers, devices, networks, dependencies, user behaviour—and suddenly that bug you could never reproduce locally is affecting real users. I wrote about what teams often miss👨‍💻 Read article...👇 medium.com/@Munene254_/why-f…

To break markets in Kenya, start with the basics. You can't disrupt a market if you don't disrupt the cost. Hiyo ingine ni kizungu mingi

The Expertise Wins API updates 🗞️ When I entered sports prediction, industry gurus kept discouraging me 🫡 Today, I just got my first paying customer, and the engine is still command-line based! I'm growing it to a full-stack product, but for now, the main focus is my needs 👨‍💻

I wonder if lonely minds, alien to their own timeline, write books, create art, to externalise some portion of their interior architecture into language, so that others like them can encounter what they've created, find belonging, even across physical and temporal distance. In this way, their devotion to who they are, their authenticity, becomes paramount in order to render the expanse that exists within them faithfully enough to achieve this. It is quite beautiful how existential loneliness can produce artifacts capable of relieving the loneliness of others they may never meet. It is quietly romantic, like the men who plant trees whose shade they may never enjoy.

Some companies don't even need the bare minimum like Zoho. All they really need is WhatsApp.

My Current Project 👨‍💻 I always wanted to automate my process for getting sports tips for my Telegram Channel After several trials, I have successfully rolled out a stable API that I run daily, for fresh tips Are you guys having fun with JavaScript? #JS github.com/john-walter-munen…

A Kenyan Gen Z has vowed to fight corruption in his area by monitoring traffic police officers collecting bribes from motorists. He says he will show up daily and livestream the officers if they continue demanding bribes.