Nyaga @_bigzoo Twitter profile

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

5 months

Well well well😆

emily freeman

@editingemily

5 months

If you feel stressed and unhappy, might I suggest quitting your job.

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 years

I didn't think I'd have to do this but I'll stay true to my word. My first decent monthly income as a dev was about 25,000 around 2016-2017, right now it's at 1,025,005 (all gross). This time last one year it was about 500,000 gross so it's grown rapidly very recently

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@_bigzoo

3 years

Are y’all Kenyan devs willing to share publicly how much you earn? First salo vs now? 100 likes and i start 😂

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My sister is admitted in hospital and undergoing treatment. We appreciate any who take their time to read, pray, encourage and contribute towards her recovery🙏🏾! God bless 👇Mchanga link 👇

BOYOT 👴

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Jennifer Nyaga was diagnosed with Guillain-Bare Syndrome. She needs 1.5M to cater for her medication at Aga Khan Hospital. Contributions can be made via the link below.

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 years

Are y’all Kenyan devs willing to share publicly how much you earn? First salo vs now? 100 likes and i start 😂

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@Shikohkihika

3 years

How much did you earn at your first job ?

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

4 months

Msisahau salo ya this week ndio ya kununua flowers

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

8 months

Btw I’m open to taking 1-2 max student tech mentorship/ code review/ career advice calls a week. Any interest?

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

9 months

Saf/ @Mpesa_AFRICA on site at #apifest

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

6 months

What’s happening?

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

7 months

Here to learn

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

4 months

(devs) this is my unsolicited reminder to please write your git commit messages in present tense not past

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 years

So whoever is out there grinding, keep doing so. At no point did I ever ask for big figures, I'm just always surprised when I see them being offered to what I always do, which is my usual thing, grind! PS, I have no idea how this became a ted talk thread

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@_bigzoo

2 months

@kimaniGeoffre14 Firstly, prefixing a statement with a disclaimer does not magically negate the sentiment. Secondly to help you 'get it', do you understand that as a black man in tech from Nairobi you are not only part of a marginalized and underrepresented group but also are statistically

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

8 months

Another trip round the sun

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

6 months

Instead of planting trees, we should just use Monday for protests. Kenya sihami 🥲 #MaandamanoMonday

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

6 years

Amazing article here on git rebase "The Git Rebase Introduction I Wish I'd Had" by @Maxwell_Dev #DEVcommunity

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

11 months

@SaruniBM Sijakula siku tatu mkubwa

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

10 months

kenyans suffering because the mental conversion we were used to doesn't work at all anymore is hilarious 😂 how is $280 == Kes. 38,000 at the very least 😂

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 years

In all my very few years as a dev 'professionally' I've been working an average of 60-75 hrs a week, 50 when I wasn't busy. At some points it was 80hrs. Definitely not healthy. But I also strongly believe in will power and mind control, so I always just do my thing

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

4 years

How it started vs How it's going

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

As a former tech lead at Twitter, I'll share some technical details on how we architected our caching layer. We used a combination of Java and Kafka to build an agnostic system that could be used for various use cases. 1/

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

11 months

I’m so grateful for my friends and family. I wish you all genuinely loving and caring support systems.

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

2 months

Always be there for your friends and family. Celebrate them for all their progress, small wins especially. Remind them to keep going

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

16 days

Views!

Nyaga

@_bigzoo

16 days

wework @ saleforce is a beautiful space! highly recommend

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

🚀🚀🚀🚀Gotta submit a session for this soon. I'll also be sponsoring 25 tickets for current or recent college/ university/ bootcamp/ quack curious backend developers. Just comment on this tweet on yourself/ what you do

Kelvin N

@NdemoKelvin

1 year

📢 API FESTIVAL 📢 💻 Learn about API building, security, testing, design, performance, integration, and more. 🗓️ 10-12 May 2023 🏢 Venue: TBA 🎫 Get your tickets: 🎙️ Call for Speakers: 💰 Sponsorships:

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

2 years

Day 1 at Kappa today! Doing what Andreas said.

Andreas Fragner

@AndreasFragner

3 years

Looking for our first two engineers to round out the founding team at Kappa. Rare opportunity to both build a massive business and to have a positive impact on millions of lives. If you know any rockstar engineers excited about African fintech, please DM!

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@_bigzoo

3 months

hii editing si inakuwanga one click pale capcut ama watu hawajajua bado

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@Mob_iShmurda

3 months

Another one ,there is something about her 🤌🏼Smooth

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@_bigzoo

1 year

Twitter saw it first

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

7 months

Not taking if off this week! #nairobimarathon #stanchartmarathon2023

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@_bigzoo

2 months

@Nzau_Ngemu @kimaniGeoffre14 For posterity I'll give you a straight answer. "Women in tech" as a movement and division of "diversity and inclusion" is required to progressively empower more to learn, contribute to and grow the industry. The reason diversity and inclusion projects exist is because

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

9 months

Treat your APIs as first class citizens @MakwashaAnesu

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

6 months

Woke up Kenyan & also still a United supporter 😭

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 months

Is it just me or has Safaricom Home Fiber become really really shitty in the last month

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

Fetching data while asleep, call it rest. Fetch data while taking a shower, call it soap?

Jessica Joseph

@forJessica_sake

1 year

The major thing I learnt in March was how to work with APIs. I can literally fetch data from my sleep in any format.

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

6 months

if you're gonna book my calendar for a mentorship session/ discussion, at least please show up or communicate if you can't. had a few no-shows and it's annoying

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

Things I do when I’m not writing clean and tested code

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 months

a blessed new week to everyone reading this!

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

9 months

Send me jobs guys pls :)

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

2 months

One of my big goals this year is improving my physical shape; ie reasonable progression towards a ‘pro athlete’ level of performance and endurance

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

29 days

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

Nyaga

@_bigzoo

4 months

manifesting a live in a j.cole performance this year

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@_bigzoo

4 months

No one asked me this but why are some Kenyans so westernized that we casually make fun of local names (yes I’m referencing that tweet about Luhyas lol)

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

Hii picha inakaa ile mzae huchukua akikuomba sunglasses

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@usesmileid

1 year

Join us in welcoming @_jumaallan as our newest Smiler. He joins the team as a Senior Mobile Engineer. His impressive background and passion make him a great addition to our team. Welcome, aboard!

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@_bigzoo

5 months

So many quotes saying how much this mans style doesn’t have class etc. I really think that’s wrong. Class / taste is personal and can never be generalized. The man R.G probably loves everything about the look, and also probably prefers to pour his money into a farm or something;

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@UDAPartyKe

5 months

Riggy G shows his homestead decorated for Christmas

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

7 months

I’m just waiting for my adplist account to be approved then I’ll share a mentorship link

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

when folks weren't watching tv guess who had a monitor 🥲

GrayHat Mbaabu

@HarunMbaabu

1 year

Let's do a thread of your first workstation / workspace😂 🧵

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 months

DevOps guys, what’s your first pick for an open source APM that’s fully featured and can self host?

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

2 years

Kenya's fintech Kwara lands $4 Million in seed round from Breega, SoftBank to build neobank for...

The Kenyan fintech Kwara was launched in 2019 to help credit unions (savings and credit cooperatives societies, SACCOs) in the East African country shift

techcrunch.com

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

4 months

si mtu ani recommend internship safaricom. nitafanya kazi mzuri

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 years

As always, proud to see a cool thing I've worked in prod 🚀

Kevin Xu

@kevinsxu

3 years

Proud to announce a *new* @github feature: machine translation of content in Discussions! Currently in beta, only between Eng, Brazilian Portuguese & Korean. Will expand to other langs + products if useful for developers. Please try & give us feedback!

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

2 years

Spent 2.5hrs last night debugging what ended up being an unnecessary `:` this morning

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@_bigzoo

2 years

Flutterwave should hire me as the new CEO to fix it 👀

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

2 years

Hello guys. I need $100k ASAP. My enemies are against me. Please help. Do whatever you can. We're in this together x

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@_bigzoo

3 years

Another day as a dev and I wonder if I'll ever know what's the difference between padding and margin

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@_bigzoo

7 months

Point is, complex architecture for a new, un-launched, incomplete product is most likely a mistake. You discover majority of engineering and product design qualms when building your MVP, which should be almost if not entirely a monolith. “* Conclusion * Just start with a small

Architecture Notes

@arcnotes

7 months

Microservices without reason

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@_bigzoo

8 months

Alcohol

non aesthetic things

@PicturesFoIder

8 months

What are you convinced people are just pretending to enjoy?

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@_bigzoo

3 months

@0xbyugo One day someone on twitter will still tell you they are dissatisfied with you posting your successes/ results and require you to post more code to inspire them lmao

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@_bigzoo

3 months

5 years later na pressure bado ni ya pesa lol Twitter/ IG ya wenyewe si ya kukufurahisha

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

8 months

Heard you needed some Monday motivation? Friday is just 4 days away!🙃

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@_bigzoo

9 months

Hey guys, @apifestivalke is finally here. Looking forward to meeting and hanging out with awesome backend developers in Nairobi. In case you still don't have a ticket yet, use my discount code BIGZOO to grab yourself a ticket at just Ksh. 1000. (2000 off)

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@nairobi_gophers

10 months

@_bigzoo Will be speaking @apifestivalke Follow @nairobi_gophers for Golang updates

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@_bigzoo

4 years

Excited to be having an AMA this Friday with the #DevCEldoret crew!

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@_bigzoo

3 years

Code reviews from @_akabiru usually have phrases like 'art 🌟' and 'this reads like poetry 🌟' and that's just one of my favourite things about working at @getkwara

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@_bigzoo

6 months

On Twitter there’s multitudes who knowingly tweet aimlessly just for the reactions. You need not educate them, save your energy and intellect; just mute them. Be like Bob.

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@_bigzoo

4 years

developers on twitter bios be like: 'writes code sometimes' 'i understand computers' '(some shit in binary)' 'ex-Google, ex-Twitter, ex-XXXTentaciaon, ex-xmen' 'all the languages they can think of' what'd I miss?

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@_bigzoo

5 years

Dev: I'm a senior engineer, I can finish this is two days Jira:

Valentine

@nimu_kamau

5 years

Kwa Ground Vitu ni Different . ~Wallah bin Wallah

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@_bigzoo

11 months

Happy for y’all! Ningewajoin but hii inakaa fitness group ya android users

Chepsi

@chepsi_

11 months

Day 1 of techies getting fit. 🤣🤣. Eiyyy 22k steps. Yikes.

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@_bigzoo

4 years

@kvlly Releases are hard

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

1 year

Working weekends now so you don’t have to work weeks in the future sounds like a good bargain

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@_bigzoo

4 years

Found this #TBH gem in my email. Keep coding friends!, It does get somewhat better.

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@_bigzoo

1 year

Bard is so far ridiculously worse than gpt3.5/ 4 for me

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@_bigzoo

1 year

MkenyaDaima | Bongani🇿🇦 | Mamba 🇹🇿 | ₿

@MkenyaMzi

1 year

i don't believe in the nonsense of software engineering for one year, I am convinced likes of Moringa and ALX are creating Quacks not software engineers, Quacks cannot survive in software engineering because software development is a field that requires a high degree of skill and

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@_bigzoo

8 months

What genre of music do computers listen to? Algo-Rhythms

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

10 months

Kamati ya Starlink won't even be good imeanza mapema sana

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@_bigzoo

4 months

Kusema na Kutenda

Nyaga

@_bigzoo

4 months

GitHub is down, close your laptops devs and go for a walk (or run)

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@_bigzoo

5 years

The future is now brothers 💪

L'chaim & Wine

@WanguiMuchiri_

5 years

Nerdy guys are such a weakness. Especially tech nerds. 😍😍😍😍😍😍

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@_bigzoo

1 month

😂😂😂😂

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@_bigzoo

1 year

Last day of the year and I’m just glad to be waking up not feeling like I’m dying for the first time this week. Thankful for good health above so many things in this moment.

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

3 years

@larrykubende Ruby + go + elixir ()

bigzoo - Overview

npc. bigzoo has 104 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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@_bigzoo

10 months

A week in Madrid. For therapy or bankruptcy, your pick. Loved every second of it

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@_bigzoo

3 months

if you're brave enough, the weekend can start today

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@_bigzoo

1 year

I've been such a quack today. Definitely not an engineer

Savior.

@medulla1__

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Nikita Kering or Azziad

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@_bigzoo

4 months

GitHub is down, close your laptops devs and go for a walk (or run)

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

8 months

I was to attend #RailsWorld organized @rails this week but last week I finally got my visa back from the @NLinKenya embassy and they denied my Visa saying I didn't provide justification even though I had an invitation letter, the same one every attendant worldwide used😭

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

10 months

Love it how there's always new techies on the TL whenever a server needs to be oppened

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@_bigzoo

1 year

"If your code doesn't run, run to the gym." ~ Aristotle

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@_bigzoo

11 months

@OlePundit haha, moringa alumni tuko wengi with no regrets lakini. i was told the same thing about paying for moringa 6 years ago so can't blame us for keeping on referring folks to try and see how their career pans out because it worked for us; what works for one won't work for all but

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

6 months

Took forever but I'm finally ready to start doing sessions. Limiting myself initially to 3 sessions a week but will add an evening time slot soon

Get mentored by Chris Nyaga on ADPList

I'm Chris Nyaga, a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience in back-end development. My expertise lies in Golang, Ruby/Rails, and Python. During my career, I've made significant contrib...

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Nyaga

@_bigzoo

8 months

Btw I’m open to taking 1-2 max student tech mentorship/ code review/ career advice calls a week. Any interest?

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@_bigzoo

1 year

Atomic Habits about to be out of stock again as usual

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@_bigzoo

5 years

If you use @ohmyzsh then you can cd into directories without actually typing cd. Folder name is enough. #TIL

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@_bigzoo

1 year

@HarunMbaabu Circa 2016/17. Both laptops are kaput now

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@_bigzoo

10 months

Going to Barcelona for the weekend is not a sentence you construct often

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@_bigzoo

3 months

Spent the last 3hrs cooking and I maybe I’m better at this than code 😀 bless be to the folks who are able to be wowed by my work!

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@_bigzoo

5 months

Just imagined cruising down the Express Way with my crew everyone in a GT3 🥹

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@_bigzoo

10 months

I built up so much Varnish knowledge while working at GitHub and transferring it to another project was long overdue. anyway, who's hiring?! :)

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@_bigzoo

10 months

Seeing your cache setup work in prod is beautiful 😊🥹

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@_bigzoo

2 years

Just finished watching The Playlist and I’m not sure what to think about Spotify

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@_bigzoo

18 days

Bane is getting pampered proper this year!

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@OnlyJush

19 days

Tunapigisha A5 flani luku

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@_bigzoo

3 years

recursion is this thing that I try to understand but then recursion is this thing that I try to understand but then recursion is this thing that I try to understand but then recursion is this thing that I try to understand but then recursion is this thing that I try to understand

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@_bigzoo

1 year

Simp today, your future depends on it.

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@_bigzoo

8 months

So many people building the "infrastructure for financial services for Africa" 2 cents: Majority of them will probably survive but only in their home markets. Regional dominance in SSA will need more openness to Mergers & Acquisitions's CAC in FinTech SSA is high and even ...

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@_bigzoo

1 year

Had such a shitty start to the week. But we move regardless. :/

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@_bigzoo

5 years

live in: 🇰🇪 I'm from: 🇰🇪 first country i travelled to: 🇰🇪 last country i travelled to: 🇰🇪 next country: 🇰🇪 my heart is in: 🇰🇪 worst country: 🇰🇪 best country: 🇰🇪 country of my dreams: 🇰🇪 On my bucket list: 🇰🇪🇨🇳 akuna haja niwachoche

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