been applying for jobs lately and it hit me in tech you can pretty much apply everywhere since the skills carry over. so now i'm just shooting my shot broadly lol but curious, what did you actually put on your CV that got you the job? any tricks or things you'd swear by?
Hi guys, how do you accept payment? Please don't say PayPal. I am looking for something else. I understand I could set up a dollar account with one of the local banks but then I need a minimum amount to avoid monthly charges and I don't think that's something I can keep up with . I mean, naeza taka kutumia yote nibaki na zero bob. Can you recommend anything? Also, if it's a bank, which one's the best?
Anyone else think placing AI Overviews on top of web search results should be illegal? It's like content creators are writing for Google for free these days.
Funny thing is, it's not even factual in many cases. A week ago, a friend showed me what an AI Overview had told him about the age of a popular athlete, saying he was 25, when he's actually 32. He had no reason to question it, and I had to nudge him to scroll down and verify. The top result after AIO was a website with the athlete's actual bio, which he never would have found on his own.
I feel like AI Overviews trains people to stop scrolling and just believe whatever google thinks is the truth. I'm surprised no anti-competition organisations have come out to stop Google from doing this. In my opinion, it should be at the bottom of the page or removed since they already have the "AI Mode" tab.
I am a first time SaaS founder and would like to connect with others who have built something. What have you built and how big is your customer base?
Anybody who knows how to replace Android OS or wiping mkopa phones... Things are kind of getting tough
I've been on YouTube for years and one thing that's always frustrated me is how much effort it takes to find creators you actually love.
Going by YouTube's New To You section often feels like a slight variation of things I've had already watched, rather than genuinely new discoveries.
The most fulfilling way I have discovered content creators was through community posts on Reddit, which was better than the YouTube algorithm itself.
It feels like platforms are very good at optimizing engagements, but not necessarily at helping people discover creators that align with their specific tastes, interests, or aesthetic preferences.
I am exploring this idea further with an attempt to find out whether there is another better way of discovering new and personalized content creators and hear how other people experience creator discovery online.
Here are some of the things I am curious about:
Would genuinely love honest thoughts, even if you think this is a non-problem.
What are the available non-fiber home internet solutions. Of course, we all know about starlink...
What is your experience in terms of speed and reliability. What would be your recommendation for remote work.
DREAM JOB?
Unemployed with mysterious source of income
someone told me that posting my stuff (either for feedback or support) is helpful, especially with the competition being stiff as it is. So, welcome to my first design. This is Teachado, a mobile-learning application made to make learning easier and on-the-go. This was also my first UI design. So, let me know what you think.
Shoutout to u/Sad-Artist-7462 for the advice.
English is the programming language of 2026.
I'm a software engineer specializing in AI-native systems, not just bolting AI onto existing apps, but designing and building from the ground up with LLMs, agents, and intelligent automation at the core.
What I build:
🤖 LLM-powered applications, conversational agents, RAG pipelines, tool-use systems, and multi-agent orchestration using LangChain & LangGraph
⚙️ AI integration & automation, turning complex business workflows into intelligent, automated pipelines (document processing, voice agents, trading bots, government portal automation)
🔐 Secure backend systems, REST APIs, multi-tenant architectures, PostgreSQL schema design, and data pipelines built for scale and auditability
👁️ Computer vision & NLP, TensorFlow-based models, OCR pipelines, real-time inference
Tech I work with:
LangChain LangGraph FastAPI Django PostgreSQL Docker AWS Redis Celery TensorFlow OpenCV WebSockets Playwright
A few things I've shipped:
✅ A natural language to trading bot platform that cut deployment time from 40 hours to under 20 minutes
✅ A dual-agent autonomous system for navigating government portals via WhatsApp, with an AES-256-GCM credential vault so credentials never touch the LLM
✅ A real-time Sign Language to voice translation model, open-source and built for assistive tech
✅ A production voice support agent with a full STT to LLM to TTS pipeline
I care about building things that are auditable, resilient, and responsibly designed, not just functional.
Availability: Open to freelance contracts (part-time or full-time hours), remote preferred
Rate: Open to discussion depending on scope, DM with your project details
I'm sure a good number of you heard about Claude Mythos. If our competition is a bot that can find a 27yr old vulnerability that missed the eyes of bug hunters, I guess we're cooked now. I've also heard that attackers are using AI to create malware and payloads.
So my real concern is will we fight AI defences with AI payloads or will it be AI payloads vs Human defences or vice versa?
I have just created an app that would have taken me 2 months in claude in 3 hours ,i am really scared now,where are you guys pivoting to before the hammer comes down on us
Context I am a full stack dev, and I am pretty confident in my skills lakini hii apana.
I landed this client who wanted a pos bu he wanted a mobile app not web based hearing that I quoted him a proper amount might have been my biggest project yet.
Did the job and completed it. lakini Sasa kiswahili ni that he wants to fully offline this, like offline ready, and the other issue I've had is with printing receipts.
First offline this was strange because I didn't see this coming I made some changes used Dixie dB and i was able to persist the queue and then on reconnect we sync all to the server but that brought a unique challenge multiple user instances incase of prolonged offline time there is some synchronization issues bound to happen negative stock or if they mistakenly clear the cache the queue is gone.
I strongly advised against this, but he is very adamant personally. i know it will work to some extent, and something is gonna happen, so I am not willing to hand over such a project...
Second is printing receipts I've got a pre built template that on calling the print function we pass the data as the parameters and go append them to the template but that still also gets a snapshot of the database since we have agew steps in the sale and we need to get the latest iteration so I'm not sure it will work the other thing is that I also use html2pdf to generate the pdf so that we can print it it prints with such a massive gap on the side that even Claude can't help...
Long story short, this was beyond what I could deliver, but for a client paying 300k +, I told him we could have as many features as possible, but these ones are not it.
I wanna give back the money because I refuse to hand over a half-baked buggy project that I know will fail if not used the intended way
Guys, how do you deal with those clients who ghost you even after they give the down payement and now when the job is done, they literally ghost you, these two clients have been ghosting me, for about six months now.
Should I just move on and write that off as a bad debt and scrap of the entire project too?
Anyone with access to Claude Pro or can help me access a free pro trial or something. I have one coding task to complete but I keep hitting the limits everytime I try do something small. Would appreciate.
I am a student at a tvet here in Kenya pursuing diploma in computer science
Recently we were told tunafaa kuenda attachment this September and honestly I ain't gonna lie zile stuff tumefunzwa ni kidogo sana ukicompare na zile nimemanage kujisomea but I still feel blank
Ata actually huwa hatufunzwi ivo sana kwa wiki ata tuki attend class 4 ama 5 ito ni bahati
My question is this should I be worried and grind harder for myself and actually nilikuwa na watch vlogs za wasee wamefanya codility test ya safaricom
And again huwa attachment watu wanapata aje
Thanks
So graduates will be asking for internships or jobs with such projects on GitHub.. what I find funny is that why would anyone want to know tomorrow's date and they already know today's? I mean is it for people with amnesia😂? Meanwhile , developers with 10 years of experience are being laid down in countries with better economies...so is there hope for this generation? Like even in the age of vibe coding, how do companies rely on people who have no clue about how their systems work? How are you mentoring interns?
A few days ago I made a post showing my workstation setup and people kept asking me to talk about the DIY solar backup system I was running it on.
First things first. Please get a professional electrician to do your solar setup. Mine is a fire hazard I am willing to live with for the love of DiY but burning your house down is a very real risk for solar installations. If you do decide to do this then setup the solar components in an isolated room, not under your desk like I did. Finally, when opening up electronics be sure to not electrocute yourself. Public disclaimer over
Let's talk about the components. To have a usable solar setup you will need a few things. A solar panel (converts sunlight into electricity), a charge controller(regulates voltage and current coming from the panel to a battery, also safeguards against battery overload), an inverter (converts the DC current from your battery into AC current to power your devices) and a battery (stores charge).
The first thing I did before the installation is finding out how much power my devices actually consume off the wall socket. To measure that I had to get a smart plug, this device plugs into the wall socket and then you can plug your device into it and it will measure out how much power the device is drawing. It provides stats such as . You can find them on Jumia.
I found my whole workstation setup uses less than 200W even an peak usage. With that in mind , I got a 600W solar panel which gives me around 200-300W during the day consistently even when its cloudy. The amount of power solar panels yield will vary based on temperature, sunlight and panel quality .
I also got an MPPT **(**Maximum Power Point Tracking) charge controller, essentially an MPPT charge controller scans and samples the solar panel's output and finds the exact point at which the combination of voltage and current yields the absolute highest wattage. This means you get more power from your panel that would be underutilized if you were using a charge controller that doesn't use the MTTP tech.
I then got a 100AH battery. For the inverter I got one that was labelled 600w but when I opened it up to check the components used I doubt if it could hit 100W without setting itself up on fire. So I decided to take an old APC 300w UPS I had and converted it into an inverter, the connection is quite simple, just had to remove the UPS battery, link those connections to my 100AH battery ensure to disconnect the UPS input so it does not try to charge the battery. I also added a computer fan to the UPS to cool the transformer which does run hot. I also got a change over switch, this allows me to switch between my main power and battery power without turning my devices off.
With this setup I am able to get 4 hours of use when I run my computer or about 12 hours when I run my smart TV and sound system. I also have the smaller inverter running indefinitely which powers my router and the LED strip I have setup in my room. During the day I am able to run all these devices on the panel alone and still have the battery charged, on cloudy days I may not have a full battery by nighttime if I use the solar system during the day.
Here is a cost estimate for all the components
- Solar panel 15k
- MTTP charge controller 15k
- Inverter (The fake one cost me around 1500 but my DIY UPS inverter was free)
- Battery 100AH 15k
- Changeover switch 2k
- Cabling + miscellaneous (On a 600W panel the wires get hot so you will need those 6mm thick cables) Cost me about 3k
I have really been enjoying my experience. The area I live in has blackouts often especially on rainy days you might have multiple day long outages throughout the week. Not having to worry about what KPLC is up to is nice. It also saves me a lot especially with the rising power costs. The cost of power for running a computer all day really adds up.
I plan to refine and upgrade this setup in future. I am looking to setup a lithium battery maybe 200AH, I have a 24V 900W UPS that I want to use to transition to a 24V system which my charge controller does support. For safety, I also want to have fuses on all connections so I don't burn this house down with my experiments. Having an automatic changeover switch that switches between main power and battery power if one goes out is also nice. I also run a home-server and this charge controller has a comms port that I can use to setup remote monitoring to my home-server for the system. It's a whole project that I really want to work on when time and money allows.
That was a lot of info, thank you for reading. Feel free to ask questions.
