Other countries have their police wearing body cameras by law, these ones are blocking out their number plates, in civilian dressing and masked. Rogue!
I thank H.E. President Dr. William Samoei Ruto for granting me the opportunity to serve my Country as Cabinet Secretary.
I owe him a great debt of gratitude for the same.
@WilliamsRuto
I bought my first car almost exactly 2 years ago, after an aggravating incident with the public transport
And after many a cherished moments behind it's wheel, I have decided to sell it
But before I do, here goes a little story about the 2014 Audi A4 Allroad, premium trim
I am a self taught software engineer - many of us are
That means we weren’t taught our craft in school
I dropped out of Biomedical Engineering at Kenyatta University 6 years ago, so I could teach myself to code
Not asking guys to drop out, but to show you can self-educate
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Okay, I want us to also follow all the tech talent we have in KE. So that we can tag them to build us the tech we need to keep our leaders accountable
If you're in tech, give a short intro and what you do. I'll go first
Kaka Ruto, Software Engineer, creating web systems
Credible sources telling me citizens in Githurai are being massacred live
I know Githurai most people are homeless, they cannot be killing the homeless!
Please we need ALL media coverage in Githurai now now, tag them all!
@citizentvkenya
@LarryMadowo
Treat it as very urgent!
Guys literally have a full time activist on their side and they’re complaining that he is funded
They want him suffering and unemployed so that his fight against oppression can appear legitimate?
They want him fighting part time because he is spending the rest of the time
Happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Software Engineer at
@smartpensionuk
and I shall be relocating to London, UK!
Shall be working on my fav programming language, Ruby.
Happy to meet and interact with a new ecosystem of engineers and startup founders in London!
I will never forgive this government for making me dig through pages of pdf documents of the constitution in order to build systems for the people instead of building my startup
@autohaven_io
#RejectFinanceBill2024
#RejectICTBill
Having lived and worked in the Netherlands for the past ~1 year, today I leave the beautiful green country!
Grateful for the God-given opportunity and chance.
I leave behind a huge team of Kenyan engineers, all crushing it here.
If you’ve a team, hire Kenyans!
Bedankt.
Many people do not know this, but yes, at 19 I ran my own cyber cafe at home during the long holidays in my first year of college since I couldn't find a job for upkeep before the next school year
It was called The Kyle Computer Centre
I took a loan in my dad's name, bought all
Frauds that we should never allow to draft laws for us. Frauds!
That bill he and his fellow thieves are drafting should never see the light of day. That one I am going to die for.
So now the president is terming us as criminals who are dangerous to the country?
When all we said was
#RejectFinanceBill2024
?
How hard is it just to talk about the issue, the bill itself?
This guy just threw the nation to ashes again
Police will be the first ones to ask you for your ID, but they do not want to be ID-ed themselves.
There was never a better time to resign the Inspector General than now.
Try hiring from Kenya? They have top graduates who have not landed employment yet and will happily take up VA jobs.
Their English is as good as the natives, and they’re very tech and computer savvy, and young!
For prove look at the success of
@Andela
Nairobi from early days
I interviewed over 470+ VAs from Philipines in the last 5 months of starting
- 50% of them do not follow simple requirements like sharing a voice recording with a script we provide.
- 40% of them don't show up to the scheduled call
- 2 or 3 people who
Hey
@elonmusk
,
@X
,
@XEng
, why is this hashtag suppressed when it is the number
#1
trending hashtag globally?
It does not even appear in the drop-down when you're typing it out?
#RejectFinanceBill2024
I got a new manager at work.
He was formerly a lawyer and didn’t like his job.
He quit and joined a bootcamp for 6 months, then a few months later got his first dev job as a junior engineer.
When he started he was not confident he’d manage to do it.
Then he got promoted
To get your first programming job:
1. Create your personal portfolio website, and buy a custom domain to host it. It doesn’t need to have much, it could just have a few paragraphs about yourself, don’t overdo it the first time
2. Find open source projects to contribute to, and
You’re about to enter history as one of the first MPs to be recalled in the reformed Republic of Kenya. Prepare your exit, kamotho.
#RejectFinanceBill2024
I TRULY APOLOGISE for the comments I made regarding the protests and the authenticity of certain images.
In the heat of the moment during the debate on the finance bill, my words were unnecessary, misguided and insensitive.
This will only enrage us further.
The kind of tech we will build to keep them in check, to curb their greed, to keep them accountable, they will not believe.
Wait for it.
#FreeFranje
#RejectFinanceBill2024
I've seen a list of Kenyan MPs and their contact details. Can we please crowdsource details on businesses they own so we can boycott their businesses? If they hit us where it hurts by voting yes, we can hit them where it hurts
They want to play? So can we.
#RejectFinanceBill2024
Pleasure to have met you David!
@dhh
is the creator of Ruby on Rails and I’m happy to be under his leadership, Rails is in safe hands and plenty of good things ahead!
#RailsWorld
2023 wrapped. See you in Toronto?
Hey,
Most of you started learning to code and do not have degrees or are not planning to get one
Let me tell you smth, don't let those bunch of fellows in the parliament discourage you from having a better life, you can clearly see they don't know what they're talking about
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Just as Musalia Musavadi said, this is vote of NO CONFIDENCE.
And everyone that was pro the bill must go home
And authorities that ordered the abductions and shootings must resign and be charged in a criminal court of law
Anything other than this is a hard NO!
Police in parliament please hold down your guns, MPs please tell them to hold down
Protestors are not shooting anyone
If they burn their parliament it’s theirs and they will rebuild it with their own money
Arrest people if you have to but DO NOT SHOOT!
#RejectFinanceBill2024
About yesterday at the Kenyan embassy in London.
We demand for political accountability, massive police reforms, obedience for court orders, resignation and recalls of members of parliament
Who are you? Where can we read more about you? What have you built? Your qualifications?
Why are you drafting laws for us when we have never heard of you or seen your work?
Why have you not consulted us?
Open a Twitter space and engage us if you want to proceed else desist!
Kindly read the Robotics & AI Bill for yourself. Ignore
@NdemoKelvin
's misinformation. He violated data privacy laws with the Finance Bill 2024 GPT. It's time for tech input!
Ref:
And tech will be a key pillar of the economy - we all know what tech can do for a country
And we shall revamp the education system so that it works
And everything shall be digitized, no cash transactions in government, everything must be tracked
And corruption will attract a
Next logical step is setting up a Gen Z/ Millenial political party of Kenya.
After that we start a massive ground registration campaign. Then by 2027 we come up with a list of candidates we can support. First target should be the county of Nairobi.
Welcome to all my new followers 🤗
I tweet about software engineering, about tech startups, about youth empowerment, and any other good thing.
I love Ruby, you will hear a lot about Ruby from me.
We are strangers on the internet, let us be kind to one another!
We should have a proper ICT Engineering team in the Kenyan government - with the best in class software engineers, data teams, cybersecurity teams, IT and internet teams and all
ICT is too big of an important matter to let it be ran by small individual players in the entire
We need to create a database of all the missing persons and their families.Every victim of this regime’s brutality has to be accounted for and treated equally.
We need to visit their families as we actively search for the missing persons. We also need a book of remembrance to be
@KIMANIICHUNGWAH
Show us EXACTLY what you or the government did to make this happen?
Did not Zuck’s team just click a button to enable this in Kenya, like they do elsewhere?
Or you will say you asked Zuck to do it? Show us your email comms with him then?
Any engineer struggling to get a job?
Build a team management system and write about your experience
- Someone can create an org, a team, invite members, invitees accept/reject, and members can see their mates
Then share your exp on Twitter & on a blog
See how jobs will come
The discovery of multiple bodies in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums, exposes Kenya's lack of a missing persons database and raising questions about police effectiveness.
She got the job 💪
4000 USD p.m, fully remote and flexible working hours
She has 4 years of experience, fully self taught
She’ll be writing Ruby on Rails and ReactJS
Just work on your skills, and connect with people, you’ll find a good job!
Major update!
I have generated over 5000 cars on
@autohaven_io
using AI
Goal is to generate all cars eventually!
So that you can find anything about any car on here :)
Have a look!
If you’re a software engineer looking for work in Nairobi, create her a website that helps her accept new bookings and payments online, and showcases previous works
Don’t even ask her, just create it and then sell it to her when it’s ready
If she declines, come to Twitter and
Good morning
My name is Sylvia and I’m a chef based in Nairobi
We have amazing outdoor and in-house catering services for all kinds of events
We help our client curate menus and deliver delicious meals
We also hire our utensils for those who’d need some
Hire us for your
I was working on backfilling 135 million records in our database (updating one column)
I did some bechmarks and it took slightly more than 10 hrs - using Rails' in_batches method (of 100k records per batch)
After brainstorming, we came up with the migration below and it did
Recently signed up a car business on Autohaven while he was driving me!
He owns three car businesses in the UK and he was more than happy to pay us bring him leads.
Created his business accounts on the road, while fixing bugs that came up, no time to wait!
He had applied to about 100 jobs and always got regrets.
My advice? Apply to 250 jobs that match your skills and are a fit - and after each rejection, do a retrospective and learn what you could have done better.
I doubt he got to 250 applications, and now he has an Italian
Just found an API for lots of datasets, and it seems you can access them for free!
These ones caught my eye but there's lots of other interesting datasets
What can you build with this?
And who knows of other datasets/APIs?
Not long ago at a former employer, I learnt I was earning the same as the company’s CTO and co-founder, whom I directly reported to.
I was so humbled by it and as I left them, I promised to always vouch for and do anything in my capacity to help them, and I will.
Be nice.
High school results are out.
Remember your siblings, sons or daughters can self-study and become software engineers.
They don’t have to go to expensive 4 year curriculums.
And their exam results don’t matter, the field is leveled for everyone who has a computer and internet
I launched Autohaven this month of April. About halfway into the month, I set some 8 major goals for the month and I crushed each one of them, plus some more major ones which were not on the list!
Happy to report that we now have 90 users on the platform.
But also
The police chief commander must resign TODAY TODAY.
How are you giving orders to shoot unarmed citizens?
Is that parliament more important than the people it’s legislating for?
YOU MUST RESIGN!!!!!
#RejectFinanceBill2024
He did not even talk about the unarmed, yet killed young protesters?
Proceeded to term them as criminals who reigned terror on the country?
Proceeded to amass the military on them?
Brooooo this is not it.
The international community must set base right now in the country
And one of the first things we shall address is the reciprocity of international relations.
If a Kenyan needs a visa for your country, so does your countrymen need visas for Kenya, no negotiations, we are not even discussing that.
Next logical step is setting up a Gen Z/ Millenial political party of Kenya.
After that we start a massive ground registration campaign. Then by 2027 we come up with a list of candidates we can support. First target should be the county of Nairobi.
I've got news, my sister
@chela_ruto
just graduated from a 1 year coding bootcamp at 19!
And I have written a long article about it :)
She started coding at 15 😂
I hear people saying men don’t want a wifey who earns more than them
Hah, get me one who earns more than me and I’ll take that in a beat
I’ll be staycationing in Spain building all my startups knowing I can risk it all without sleeping hungry
Oh and buying paid ads 🥲😄
This, this is the tweet. Let no politician think we are switching sides or anything. No, this is not about any side of politics. We are taking back our country and giving it back to it's citizens, not politicians!
We VEHEMENTLY disassociate with any politician in Kenya trying to hijack our movement. It's CITIZEN DRIVEN, not politically motivated. Funding tutapata from Kenyans in diaspora. Ata wenye walivote No si ati wote ni wazuri.
Microsoft owns OpenAI, GitHub and VScode.
Soon, IMO, we will have a VScode extension that understands file structure and can read and write code using ChatGPT after receiving a prompt(it’ll likely be a Python extension).
It’ll know how to run or execute the code, write logs,
After a few exchanges with Stripe support, I finally have payouts enabled to anyone from Kenya and some other African countries.
If you write code and are from these regions, prepare your projects for listing at
@nayvy_inc
and earn you some money!
Excited!
Always work on your garden.
Sooner or later, a beautiful butterfly will stop by.
They may decide to stay and build a home there. If they do, make it worthwhile.
But they may also decide to continue flying. That’s okay, because at least you’ll have a beautiful garden.
Thank you!
Here’s a transcript for that that missed it
“Thank you Jelani and organizers. My name is Kaka Ruto and I want to weigh in my two cents on this matter.
To Jelani and others who've asked me to change my name, I understand your frustration towards the name Ruto. I
This is how I got introduced to computer programming - this is the EXACT paper that I sat for!
And before this, I had never heard of computer programming.
I aced this class, clean As, it was my favorite of all, and mind you, we were an engineering class, not computer science!
Here we go 🥁🥁🥁
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I have this person, she’s not even my mother, she is a friend’s mother, and she was a friend to my mother.
She’s known me since I was born.
When she calls me, she always reminds me to read the Bible, and to trust in God, and to always pray.
I hold that so dear.
A short story into how I decided to buy my first car - it was quite dramatic 😂
So I had traveled back to Kenya from the Netherlands where I was working then
And at the tail end of the first week, I decided to go upcountry to see my folks 🧵
Autohaven is live!!!
The
#1
place for car enthusiasts to hang out and share their car experiences!
Share that memorable road-trip you had, that customization you did, and more!
Beginning today, Kenyan content creators can monetize their videos on Meta platforms.
We urge our creatives to take advantage of this opportunity to not only enhance their incomes but also create job opportunities for others.
We will continue to seek more opportunities for our
A clear message should be sent to;
- This government to dare mess with us.
- IMF to dare mess with our future generations.
- And
@elonmusk
if you let the government suppress our freedom of expression through X.
#RejectFinanceBill2024
Next logical step is setting up a Gen Z/ Millenial political party of Kenya.
After that we start a massive ground registration campaign. Then by 2027 we come up with a list of candidates we can support. First target should be the county of Nairobi.