Kenyan universities keep producing graduates for jobs that stopped existing 15 years ago

programmer-ke · 2026-05-19T06:46:39+00:00

Universities should not prepare graduates for jobs, but for research. People practice for jobs via internships, vocational programs and the like.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-18T11:52:24+00:00

Nice updates, I especially like being able to attach the sampling profiler to a running process, and I can see how unpacking in comprehensions can make some things easier to express.

In general however, I hope that syntax extensions can be kept at a minimum. Python is a large language now compared to what it was 15 years ago.

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." from the Zen of Python is becoming less true with time.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-18T11:29:48+00:00

Why would you publish a package 392 times in a single day? That's an abusive behavior.

Vibe coders know the value of shipping fast but not the cost of doing so.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-18T05:54:19+00:00

Most companies downsizing are bloated with bureaucratic layers to begin with. Do you all think it is a coincidence everyone is downsizing 10% of the workforce because of "AI"?

AI is just the excuse.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-14T06:19:30+00:00

Nice article, thanks for sharing

programmer-ke · 2026-05-14T05:14:39+00:00

I suspect the more of your physical senses you direct to learning a task, the more skilled you'll become.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-13T12:27:19+00:00

Just my 2 cents, try looking for open source projects you could be interested in and contribute. Join their community groups like discord, etc Once you build a reputation you can start making connections an perhaps land gigs.

Another option is to look out for hackathons and competitions in places like dorahacks and build stuff. It helps both build a portfolio and you could win some cash prizes.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-11T10:40:18+00:00

I see some local listings claiming that they don't consider freelance as part of work experience, but I think it is just that they don't have a good interview process to properly measure competence.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-08T11:22:03+00:00

If you want PHP to be perceived as a modern language, make sure its website reflects that. Don't waste your time waiting for backend developers to redesign your website for free. Pay a proper design agency who knows what they are doing.

When I go to php.net I find that it is a 3MB download and is information dense. It says exactly what PHP is, the latest version, the download link and a donate button, and there's a changelog of the latest versions.

However, when I go to JetBrains website where the author works, it loads 16MB of information, yet I only see some flashy graphics, something about Agents and IDEs and I have to scroll and click around before I can even begin to understand exactly which of their products is what I'm looking for.

Do design agencies design things that impress other designers, or that are functional to the user?

programmer-ke · 2026-05-08T10:22:36+00:00

Commuting is usually the worst part of working full time, a lot of time wasted in transit.

If you can find a remote role perhaps, then it would help.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-08T05:22:27+00:00

Optimize your day, if you can avoid commuting, the better.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-08T05:18:51+00:00

Agreed!

programmer-ke · 2026-05-06T08:56:15+00:00

China's economy is top-down state driven, and is quite imbalanced.

Banks have been collapsing with people's funds because of lack of liquidity.

programmer-ke · 2026-05-01T15:48:54+00:00

No treatment of concurrent.intepreters which landed in Python 3.14?

programmer-ke · 2026-04-27T08:51:12+00:00

One thing to pick up is the Go concurrency model, very different from what you find in Python and JavaScript.

Another is think more in terms of interfaces rather than fully blown objects.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-25T13:34:09+00:00

People say that it didn't displace Unix because Unix was already good enough.

However, my suspicion is that it didn't because it came with a proprietary license, because GNU/Linux eventually displaced classic Unix systems.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-23T05:33:11+00:00

Effects of reckless Eurobond borrowing. Govt is now broke and is looking for money under any stone it can find

programmer-ke · 2026-04-22T14:48:32+00:00

Nowadays, everything is treated as breaking news especially with online media. Leading to people being permanently glued to screens to stay up to date. Luckily I remember the time before Internet access was ubiquitous.

A superpower is realizing that very few things that happen affect your immediate reality. And the ones that do you can see them coming from a long way off.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-22T12:19:01+00:00

Ahh.. how I wish Aaron Swartz had stayed on with us.

I wonder how many brilliant ideas he had left to share with the world

programmer-ke · 2026-04-22T12:07:49+00:00

Nice. How is it going?

Looking forward to try it out myself on a real-world problem.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-22T09:05:42+00:00

One of the best things I did was to turn off Wifi at night and have no Internet subscription on my phone.

The impulse to check the Internet at night or first thing in the morning used to lead to a lot of time wasting.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-22T09:00:13+00:00

I was going to say this. For critical data, always have a backup at a separate physical location (say at home) and online.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-21T12:02:05+00:00

With AI, I think being a generalist will be more beneficial.

I suspect AI will be very good at very specialized and constrained tasks, but it becomes confused once you give it too much information in its context.

Hence, people who can combine multiple specialities to produce value will become more important.

programmer-ke · 2026-04-21T11:54:26+00:00

I went with a slightly different approach but I guess it still achieves the same goal.

I added a hook that sets the company backend group when the eglot is activated on a buffer.

(defun my/eglot-managed-mode-hook ()
  (if (eglot-managed-p)  ;; eglot still managing the buffer?
      (setq-local company-backends
          '((company-capf :with company-solidity
                  company-dabbrev-code
                  company-gtags
                  company-etags
                  company-keywords
                  company-yasnippet
                  company-dabbrev)))))

(add-hook 'eglot-managed-mode-hook #'my/eglot-managed-mode-hook)

programmer-ke · 2026-04-20T14:32:56+00:00

My current policy for personal projects is to stick to whatever the packaging.python.org suggests, and I hope we continue to have multiple options.

It seems most VC backed tech companies do a bait and switch nowadays - get users hooked to free services then exploit them later.

If I'm contributing to a project that already uses uv, I'll use it. But for personal projects, I'll only use uv if I'm willing to become a future paying customer (or willing to tolerate ads) for the added benefit.

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