Technical journal entries, project post-mortems, and observations from building software, AI systems, and businesses in East Africa.
The real cost of cloud AI isn't just privacy — it's latency, dependency, and the slow erosion of your ability to think without a middleman. Here's why I built Glitch on-premise and what I learned.
Read more →How a 3000-row Excel file became a custom inventory system, and the lessons learned about translating real business pain into technical solutions without over-engineering.
Read more →Dual-carrier 5G failover, captive portals, and mesh WiFi — what it takes to keep a commercial network running when the power fluctuates and the ISP doesn't guarantee uptime.
Read more →Patterns that show up everywhere, the data structures that matter in real systems, and why grinding problems is less about the number and more about recognizing the shape of a problem.
Read more →The unique advantages and challenges of being a developer in East Africa. Why constraints breed creativity, and why the next wave of great software might not come from Silicon Valley.
Read more →How I run a full virtualization stack on repurposed hardware — hosting AI models, web services, security cameras, and NAS backups without any cloud costs.
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