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Years ago I used to be very judgy and disgusted by people doing PDA. Like get a room guys. But now at this point in life after realizing how hard it is to run a successful relationship, PDA makes me smile 😂.

I was watching this couple not wanting to let each other go, just smooching openly apo Githurai stage. People looking away and disgusted. Meanwhile I'm like niice! 😂.. hadi wangeniambia nizime streetlights na niweke roadblock wamalizane, sina shida 😂

Today I decided to toy around with Springboot after years of Python. Lemme tell you, It feels like touching grass after scrolling social media 😂😂.. python really kinda took away that edge 😂.. Now this feels like programming. I wonder what it would feel like to go back to C/C++ rn.

FYI, Java was my first language. Started pale netbeans when darkmode was shitty and Intellij was unknown to me 😂

I have actually been thinking of doing a systems programming project to challenge myself and break the web dev boredom. This might be the start of that journey.

Do you think they have a future? or are they treading light waters?

The main thing that made it attractive to people in the start has changed.

1. It was about spare rooms in the house, not an investment. That made it affordable. Now people are investing with the purpose of making huge profits.

2. Service - Some used to get breakfast. Now unlike hotels, guests have to even do cleanups including laundry. Kinda makes hotels appealing again.

3. Safety - Now people are getting more and more cautious of recording cameras, and deaths in others.

4. Purpose - The company thought they'd be for temporary stays, now they are synonymous with hookups.

I was watching a property manager complain about how she ditched managing the business coz of the high investment from hosts and low demand from users. Apparently demand is still good, but there is market saturation, hence competition that makes even getting 50% occupancy rate a problem.

Being one's spare room at home made the operation cheap. But now people buy units, furnish, pay cleaners, pay for ads, pay managers, etc. Eating away at margins. Do you think the company has a future? or will people end up in hotels?

Is uber going in the same direction?

I did an enterprise network installation gig a month ago for an NGO, and things were all good. But recently Starlink has been having outage issues coz of their capacities. I read it is so bad that they put a hold on onboarding new customers.

Anyone else having similar issues? Does anyone have any temporary fix I don't know about?

Ps: I created a r/KenyaNetworking sub for specific networking topics. You are welcome if you have interest in computer networking, ISPs or jobs in the field.

A good TV show really leaves you in its mood. You feel infected by it 😂.. When I watched Peaky Blinders I just felt like closing deals 😂.. na hata shamba ya Ngong Town I could not manage to get a customer 😂..

Now I am watching The Agency and it is so good it got me feeling like a CIA operative 😂.. and I can't even remember the number of the car I boarded a few hours ago. Alafu that black chick whew! Body tea! Melanin imeshika hadi inaninice. I hear they just finished filming in Kenya na skua najua 😭.. that was my chance to meet my new crush

Books have the same effect too! Anyway, cheers to really good writing, directing, and acting 🥂.

I was standing on the side of the road, ready to cross. Then I felt a little hand hold my hand. I look and find it is this little, cute, young boy I have never seen before. Looking up at me like 🙂... then he points at the road. We cross together, he says thank you, and he runs off. Now I have baby fever 😂..

At some point, people give up and rely on pity to survive. The problem with that is how much it strips from you. Pitying yourself and asking others is basically giving up on all your abilities and promises to try. With time, you actually start believing you are incapable. Soon enough, if no one pities you, you won't have anything to eat.

Sure one person might pity you and help now, but as soon as they interact with you enough to know you have no desire to outgrow pity, they know you are a burden. No one likes burdens, including you.

Can you judge anyone for that? Coz how many times do you even pity people in a day? and how many times out of those get to benefit from your pity? The truth is that everyone is trying to do their part, and they need to see and feel like you are doing yours too.

Pity takes your pride and voice away. You can't expect someone to pity you into a relationship, into paying your bills, or even into a job, and expect to be able to call them out when they are crossing your boundaries. With what laverage? You are helpless without them. So you will sit there and take shit from them in exchange for the pity.

I respect people who ask for loans instead of borrowing money. Coz they still have some self belief that they still can figure it out and pay back. They still respect and value their abilities. And so the world rewards them coz they don't just sit around and wait. Something gives coz a moving man always meets his luck.

You hate that no one in your life loves you for nothing? Guess what, you love no one for free either. They are either fun to be around, bring you entertaiment, parent you, advice you, give you money or something else. Even your mom is not just another woman coz she birthed you. So yeah, that is just the way of humans. You have to create some value to even love yourself.

You should be very scared of pity. Coz it disarms and disables you for how cozy it might feel for a second. But that's all there is to it. It doesn't last long. Pick your pride up and work on yourself to back it up. You'd rather be arrogant than pathetic.

Are there any local startups that really got you excited about what they were building that you were, or are waiting to see what the future holds for them?