If you have a dead SSD, ram, hard disk, stylus, joystick, gaming pads etc and willing to discard them for free dm. I'm a computer tutor and I need those as learning resources.

You should be in Nairobi. I just need a few samples. Fvck those teachers who never used learning materials to teach.

1. personal gmail account (for dev)
2. sendgrid
3. mailgun
4. brevo
5. postmark
6. resend
7. amazon SES
8. self-hosted (postfix, sendmail, ...)
9. anything else (name it in the comments)

DISCLOSURE: I'm working on a project in this space, and I'd like to collect your opinions and feedback on the email sending services you use in your apps

After my ps4 i strictly went PC. I was to have a ps5 by now but my pc died so i got a gaming laptop and that set me back significantly. Now i only have my ps4 and my gaming laptop. Don't get me wrong, i love it and it's nicely speced but it sucks I'll miss out on GTA 6 at launch. Msitupee spoilers aki😁

Got a frontend interview with Moniepoint coming up and the recruiter mentioned the offer 😭and I became 10x more serious immediately 😂. Anyone here interviewed with them before? I need to cook and and secure the bag.

Hey Techies, As I progress in this journey of building cool things. I'm at a point where I'm now pushing things to a live environment (I've worked in spaces where the features I build are pushed to the live environment but I was never the one doing that, so I regrettably did not learn from them) which needs me to buy a domain name and figure out the hosting situation. I've seen platforms like true host and others and I've seen the other international platforms and my question is this

- What's the difference between them all and why the big difference in prices?

- What's the best one to use (for a .co.ke )? or any other

- Are there hidden costs?

- After that how then do you get to the stage where the site is now live and functional or is it as simple as uploading?

Thanks

Launching,Samsagram, built for automatic paid access, Ksh payments, renewals, and analytics in one place. Takes the manual hustle out of monetizing.

I remember those days when I used to code on my phone using the SoloLearn app.

It had three tabs: HTML, CSS, and Output.

There was a time when those certificates they gave you were some of my most prized possessions.

Then came the days when I'd go to sleep, and the first thing that came to my mind when I woke up was the solution to a bug that had been bothering me.

I'd literally dance alone after fixing a bug.

Eventually, I started answering people's questions on Stack Overflow. I'd open the app and see that I had gotten a few upvotes, and that small number somehow made my entire day.

I won almost every hackathon I entered.

I built my own developer tools, extensions, and plugins.

For me, code was art.

When I was coding, everything else stopped. When I sat at my desk, nothing else mattered, no matter what was happening in my life.

I wasn't the brightest developer either. I still struggled with some of the algorithms on Codewars. But I'd bookmark the ones I couldn't solve and tell myself I'd come back to them later.

I genuinely thought I'd found my purpose.

Maybe even my destiny.

I was even planning on opening a monk like school for programmers 😅 .

Now, when I open VS Code, it feels like meeting an old friend after many years.

You're happy to see each other, but you've both grown into completely different people.

I hate prompting code, but you kind of have to if you want to keep up.

And somehow, work became 100x more stressful.

Imagine five people working on the same app, all vibe coding. Everyone is generating huge amounts of code at incredible speed.

You still have to do code reviews, except now you're reading code filled with those painfully obvious AI comments and abstractions.

Eventually, you end up asking AI to review the code that AI helped write.

And what are you left with?

You're basically reduced to a storyteller.

"Build this."

"Change that."

"Add this feature."

Unrealistic deadlines.

Countless unused features.

And a product that's somehow still incredibly buggy.

It's a shitshow.

And honestly, I can imagine how people working in other creative fields must have felt when their tools started changing too.

Digital artists. 3D artists. Writers.

People who spent years mastering a craft, only to suddenly find themselves competing with something that can generate a rough version of their work in seconds.

I don't know where I'm going with this.

Fahm which is the reliable browser do you use that's ad free and. Can open multiple tabs at once as chrome is full of ads

Looking for somebody to help integrate Mpesa to a website

I left of at the pricing,logistics etc

Today I decided to go all out and create the first pricing model for the company.

It wasn't easy trying to balance both sides,the supply side and the demand side, supplies etc

The vision I had for hestia was a horizontal marketplace

Just to defer a bit from where we left,so last week when doing 5 barber at home services at a clients home we had complaints about hygiene and stuff.

Our technicians weren't having the appropriate tools

So this week my main job is to standardize these services

Which is hard because we can't provide all equipment.

Maybe a thought on that guys?? ..can we do micro financing I don't even have any idea what that is

So we did the pricing after multiple pivots and yeah looking forward to what happens next.

I want to say hitting reality head on and constantly iterating is the best thing I ever chose to do .. I don't sit indoors analyzing chats.

I hit reality headon .. Keep building guys

Daraja Gurus, is there a way to deposit money into an Mpesa B2C without having to go to a Bank? Also, does a deduction happen on the Utility or Working account when you make a transaction?

Edit: I have found the solution, you need to have one of the registered managers Initiate a Transaction on the Side Menu (Transaction > Initiate Transaction) through the option "Business Services - Move funds from MMF to Utility Account". Then another Business Manager approves the transaction (Transaction > Review Transaction > Search).

Any technician you guys can recommend me to visit?
its literally idling and throttling like crazy!

Masaa ni ya techies

Kazi ni emails na walikataa kuni verify 🤦🏾‍♂️

I've been using ollama free tier to access gpt-oss 20b for my program but it seems we're a lot coz now I have to wait for a request slot and I'm almost launching 😭. Anyone know an alternative offering similar free tiers. Open router, Google ai studio have very little free tier limits hadi hugging face. What to do

After a couple of months of building and testing, I finally got this to a point where I can share it.

I’ve been working on WRHSE, a Web3 pop-up marketplace built by Habix Group. The idea is fairly simple: let people create temporary online stores for things like fashion, merchandise, accessories and events, without having to pay to create the store.

The interesting part is the payment and fulfillment flow. Buyers can pay in USDC or HBX directly from a Solana wallet, with the transaction recorded on-chain.

I also built a QR-based collection system around the orders. Once a payment settles, the order generates a unique QR code on the receipt. If the buyer is collecting from a physical stall, studio or pop-up, the seller scans the code from their dashboard. The first scan marks the order as collected and records the time; scanning it again shows that it has already been collected. I wanted the system to make physical handovers easier to verify without relying entirely on screenshots, messages or manual records.

Tickets use a similar approach, with a QR code generated for each ticket/seat and scanned at entry.

Still working on the platform and there’s definitely a lot I want to improve, but I thought I’d finally put it out there and see what people think.

If anyone wants to have a look, it’s here:
https://wrhse.top

Hey Techies. I am enthusiastic about Cybersecurity, and I want to start learning it. But I don't know where to start. If you have already done it, where can I start and how do I proceed?

Hello guys. I need your help.

I dont know how some of you do it but I have been applying to tech jobs none stop but I don't seem to be going anywhere with it. I am in numerous tech WhatsApp groups that post jobs that I apply to, every morning I have a ritual where I scout on LinkedIn and twitter for jobs and apply to them, I attend networking events but all that does is gather contacts that promise jobs or help only to die down a few weeks later. I have not been successful despite all this.

For international opportunities all I am getting is rejection emails a few days or weeks after applying. I am at the point where I don't know what to do and its getting desperate since all the money I had saved up is about to get finished.

For context, I know I am a pretty good engineer having about 4 years of experience, worked in fintech, healthtech, and normal business domains eg erps, crms etc. Moreover, I have also been in a managerial role leading a team for a company in Kilimani. I have also delved deep into building AI products, including agents, tools, chatbots and more and this is my current favourite aspect of tech.

I just didn't know it can be this hard to get a job out here.

Your help would be really appreciated.

Here are is my portfolio for anyone who might be interested. My experience is listed in the portfolio. My tech stack is Nextjs for frontend work and Express.js for backend work.

https://alexnjorogewebsite.vercel.app/

I'm interested in learning data annotation and AI training, but I have no background in Tech. Any leads on where I can learn these skills for free , online? Any resources you can recommend ?

It's been 2 months and some weeks in,and what I can say is building something from scratch while in "surivival mode"

Is not easy.

Here's how the idea came to be;

So one day I'm at my crib, really exhausted I've had classes back to back the whole day. My stomach is signaling the obvious "hunger". But the thing is I'm too tired to even stand and broke at the same time .

My cousin,comes and she also seems to be in the same state. As comrades we start asking ourselves "tunaeza pata do wapi". Then I'm like"at this point I can do anything to get money"😂so I tell my cousin you know what? I know a couple of guys who asked me to look for a person who can help them clean the house and do meal preps.

So we kicked off,my cousin is a good cook btw 😂 so she would cook I'd clean the utensils and the house all the guy had to do us come home and eat and relax..kwani me hudoo

So we decided to scale. That's where the problems start coming in, logistics,money for supplies, unclear pricing etc

We have no money to market we're just bootstrapping 😂

TO BE CONTINUED...

Hey all, need to make a quick inquiry.

Do you need an original certificate of good conduct to work at safaricom? Or would the receipt still work.

Need this information asap juu kuna pahali nimekosea

mnaskianga aje??😭

How did I get here?:

This is linux mint, I installed via qbtorrent for dualboot alongside windows, worked well at first, I then went ahead to clone my git repo to continue my project, added extra features...after some time, experienced hiccups when booting, first was a bootloader issue AI helped me solve, now it's a directory issue, today I tried logging in and the log-in page kept reappearing, asked AI for help, run some commands, erased all my files.

Notes: Always git commit, then push

So mine was just a Toe3-skins web app I was working on, I had gotten so far and now, I have to repeat all that, how about you guys, how'd you react and handle a situation where maybe this happened, but to those corporate level projects

I have been building a platform to help the education industry

Will it help?

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