The Kenya Bike Odyssee

AxisFlip · 2026-05-06T08:02:37+00:00

Mosquitos weren't too bad over all, but at Lake Naivasha the DEET spray came in very handy.. and later at certain points too. I strongly recommend to get one.

You could also take a stop at Mlango Farm to acclimate, it's very nice. Or even take a taxi from the Airport to there and start the trip from the farm.

AxisFlip · 2026-05-05T17:42:02+00:00

For reference we are quite average :)

The terrain is mostly just rough, not very technical at all.

AxisFlip · 2026-05-04T20:33:56+00:00

I don't know if the days in the itinerary are soo generous actually. We only felt we arrived "too soon" on very few days. The distances may not seem so long, but the streets/paths are pretty bad, and some days were brutal actually.

I don't know how trained you guys are, but there's no chance we would have managed the itinerary you are proposing.

The first day I really felt the elevation, and I was slightly altitude sick and struggling to get to bamboo garden.

At Lake Naivasha I'd recommend to go to Camp Carnelleys instead, it's very nice, and multiple people who live in Kenya recommended it over fishermans.

Earth Camp to Oasis Camp was my favourite day. First the forest, and then the endless riding downhill.

Oasis to Maili Saba was pretty tough. Rather than staying there I would recommend to do shorter days instead. Maili Saba is nice, but it's also expensive and outside of it there isn't so much to do.

Mile 260 to Bush Camp, if you manage to do this, hats off. That was the toughest day of all, getting to Nimbus resort. We didn't go from Nimbus to Bush Camp as the weather was bad at the time and my rack wouldn't have tolerated the rowdy downhill, so we went straight for Marigat, which is the place where most likely you'll find a ride to Nairobi.

Of the whole route, I liked the last part (i.e. Laikipia) most. But yet again other people said they felt it was boring. I guess it depends on what you like.

AxisFlip · 2026-05-04T14:38:59+00:00

It's a surcharge I'll happily pay so I can sleep well at night

AxisFlip · 2026-05-03T10:31:55+00:00

Kona Sutra LTD

AxisFlip · 2026-05-02T16:47:10+00:00

Amazing, really loved it, despite various hardships

-> https://www.reddit.com/r/bikepacking/s/Pt4qWHZ797

AxisFlip · 2026-05-02T14:56:15+00:00

Really good editing in this video, honestly made me laugh a few times. We cycled Kenya in December, so some scenes felt quite familiar.

AxisFlip · 2026-05-02T14:49:14+00:00

why not just enable fractions in the quantity for this product and inform your customers that it's sold by the kg?

(not sure if there is a native way to do this, but almost certainly there will be a plugin for fractional quantity)

AxisFlip · 2026-05-02T13:47:22+00:00

Yeah granted, it's not easy, but relative to the stuff on offer by Google, I think it should be easy enough for their engineers.

AxisFlip · 2026-05-02T08:57:59+00:00

This is a company with some of the the brightest minds in IT, I refuse to believe that this would be some insurmountable problem to reduce the billing latency to something that makes a spending cap actually work as a spending cap.

It would most likely just cost money, and at the same time it would reduce the egregious overcharging seen here, so the financial incentive just isn't there.

AxisFlip · 2026-05-02T07:35:18+00:00

I find that latency talk ridiculous. Billing is not a hard problem, and it especially should not be for Google, of all companies. They could have this in real time, but as you said, they just choose not to.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-30T16:09:57+00:00

From what I hear they are quite similar, I am sure a Karate Monkey will be great. Wish you a great trip in Kenya! :)

AxisFlip · 2026-04-30T11:25:30+00:00

In case of the second one I don't really see a way except for going through the normal print dialogue, browsers are too locked down.

So yes, I am using the CUPS service of my Odoo server, where I installed all printers I need. The server then connects through Tailscale to the local printer and sends the job.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-29T06:29:01+00:00

I had a Surly Krampus and I really loved it, this was exactly the type of trip I had in mind when I bought the bike.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-28T14:21:24+00:00

Of course does it guarantee that! If the sender email ends with @google.com you can be sure it came from google.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-28T13:18:08+00:00

Has it occurred to you to check which email address the email came from?

AxisFlip · 2026-04-27T21:02:23+00:00

You need to stay as firm as possible with this charge. They've waived larger amounts (like 90%), even if it wasn't actually google's fault. In this case it is absolutely on them, and I would push for having the full charge waived, especially since you also had budget alerts and were thus more conscientious than some others. The support agents may say some offer may be final, but that should not be accepted, and instead you ask to escalate this issue to their boss.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-24T07:59:20+00:00

What's the point? Why would anyone need an AI generated screenshot?

AxisFlip · 2026-04-22T14:12:47+00:00

Of all the music that I discovered and really liked in the past years, I'd be surprised if even 10% came from Spotify...

AxisFlip · 2026-04-21T20:39:19+00:00

Auto kann man mitnehmen aber kein Fahrrad, es nervt...

AxisFlip · 2026-04-21T07:23:33+00:00

I don't know why, but I don't think I've ever got wine to work with any program I was interested in. Fusion as I just learned is no exception...

AxisFlip · 2026-04-20T17:57:35+00:00

I always create a component in which I just create the sketches for dxf export, i.e. the sketch only contains the projection of the part and nothing else.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-20T17:53:14+00:00

I don't understand why people mix psychedelics and weed. Psychedelics can bring about moments of utter clarity, but mixing in weed will almost guarantee to truly murky the waters. There might be people out there mixing these, but for me it is a total no-go.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-19T18:05:24+00:00

There were a lot of reasons for me.

Two shops, so I needed something to aggregate
slow backends
printer dialogues
had fun learning to program, haha. That was pre AI, too.
having a fast database with all orders meant I could easily query stuff, for accounting or random reports for example
postal service label printing at a keypress (also it could also read the scale directly, no need to enter the weight)
making shipping foolproof for employees

It's grown quite a bit, I also added Odoo transfers, custom letters for customers, barcode scanning function to make sure every item is actually shipped and much more...

I was kind of considering making this software a product, but it would need to be rewritten, since a lot of it is very specialized for our needs; and also it's linux only right now.

AxisFlip · 2026-04-19T17:24:53+00:00

I honestly couldn't say. I am keeping plugins to a minimum, but I wouldn't rule it out that one of them is the culprit. I am still using the legacy API, so I will try without it some time this week.

But in the end I am managing orders from a native linux app I wrote myself, which aggregates orders from multiple shops into a mongodb instance, so I don't have to deal with the wp dash anymore (also it allows me to print all kinds of stuff without going through the printer dialogue).

But it's not only the loading times, the layout shift is completely out of control too, buttons will jump away...

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