David Bwire @davidbwire

Software Engineer. Tinkerer. Nairobi, Kenya Joined September 2009

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David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin

3 months ago

The key identifier of an "elite" class is not merely their bank account balance but their ability and willingness to use their economic and political heft to shape the society around them. That's why a hereditary landowner and member of the UK House of Lords is considered an…

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🇬🇧 IM 🇬🇧 @TellYourSonThis

2 years ago

Miseducation is far more damaging and destructive than the mere absence of education, because it’s much easier to learn from ignorance than to unlearn from arrogance Unlearning’s much harder than learning, because we become our habits through repetition until they imprint on us.

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David Bwire @davidbwire

2 years ago

Didn't know it was a feature.

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David Bwire @davidbwire

2 years ago

It just occurred to me that I bought into the `Work Smart` lie. Working Smart is a half-truth. We need to `Work Hard and Smart`

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InterviewReady @InterviewReady3

2 years ago

How many socket connections can one server handle? 10,000? 20,000? The answer might surprise you. 1. Server Ports Many engineers believe that each socket takes one port to listen to. If this were true, we would be limited to 65,535 sockets. This isn't true.

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Feross @feross

2 years ago

I wish more developers understood the constant stream of malware that is posted to npm, PyPI, and all package managers... Here's just a taste of some crazy malware Socket identified in the past couple weeks... All malware descriptions were FULLY WRITTEN by Socket AI.

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Daily Wire @realDailyWire

2 years ago

It’s the movie they really don’t want you to see: #WhatIsAWoman? Watch the explosive documentary starring @MattWalshBlog FREE on Twitter for 24 hrs.

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Peter Zaitsev @PeterZaitsev

2 years ago

Understanding Linux IOWait percona.com/blog/understan…

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Doctor Of The Future™ @g_diets_

3 years ago

We have been deceived for too long.

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Ivan Velichko @iximiuz

3 years ago

Linux vs GNU/Linux vs Alpine Linux 🧵 1. Linux is the kernel. What Linus wrote in the 90th. That's it. Interesting fact: Excluding drivers, the kernel itself is just a few megabytes when compiled.

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David Bwire @davidbwire

3 years ago

Reading the code may be quickest way to discover what has not yet been documented.

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GitHub @github

4 years ago

🤫 New shortcut: Press . on any GitHub repo.

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Chris Dixon @cdixon

4 years ago

9/ “What problem does it solve?” 🛠 Many breakthrough technologies, especially those involving computers, don’t directly solve problems. Instead, they unlock new capabilities, which in turn enable users, developers, creators to solve problems.

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David Bwire @davidbwire

4 years ago

Impressed by @MyDawaApp services. Their prices are competitive and they deliver in a timely manner. They've consistently delivered in under 3 hours for 3 out of 4 orders. The 4th order delayed due to circumstances that was out of their control.

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Gabriel Gruber 𝚵 @GabrielGruber

4 years ago

7 productivity recommendations by @elonmusk: 1) Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time. Please get of all large meetings, unless you’re certain they are providing value to the whole audience in which case keep them very short.

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Shikoh Gitau @DrShikoh

4 years ago

How the mighty Fall: Kenyan Edition ( A Thread) Last week I was holding a design workshop with a pre-independent aged Kenyan on how to introduce technology into their organisation. The person has been a leader in all the major sectors in Kenya, Media, FMCG, Banking etc

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Emmanuel Atamba @_Atamba

4 years ago

ALERT: IMPORTANT TIP ON COVID-19. First, am not a medical expert (I am sharing this because it happened to my wife and that’s how I know it). We are not big on sharing personal stuff, but I could not keep this information to myself even though it means sharing a part of us.

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David Bwire @davidbwire

5 years ago

Everyone using @awscloud services should consider using @JoinVantage Vantage.sh makes it easy to visualise AWS services you are using and the projected costs. It just saved me $30 for a NAT Gateway I forgot to delete.