Times have changed for developers. Reading docs used to be the source of truth, but now we're the teachers and the tools are the LLM. I tried claude, it's amazing, but working with it has always made me feel like the IDEs have the advantage over browsers, but why is that...
Biases: The Good and the Bad
Recognizing that humans have biases when making decisions and judgments is important. However, there are several biases that can actually help guide you in making better judgments, arguments, or decisions, where everything isn't taken at face value.
Confirmation Bias: This occurs when individuals seek or interpret information in a way that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses while disregarding contradictory evidence.
MSM will exploit one's fear. Why report before facts?
I couldn't agree more that your friends are your net worth;
Delivery apps race to the bottom.
The whole food delivery thing is a race to the bottom;
Recently I order from Jumia Foods, two 3 piecers which cost currently KES.570(~$4);
There was an existing promo that made each cost around KES.399(~$3). I am a Jumia Prime member so my delivery is free ...
Normally the delivery costs around KES.129 (~$1), mind you the prime membership was worth KES.500(~$4.50) for 3 months so my delivery is free and for the amount of time I have ordered from Jumia, they are basically paying for it. Anyway, there was a promo from Jumia discounting..
Mpesa API problem 2
From this tweet I posted 10 months ago;
twitter.com/__wchr/status/1387037322990944259
Safaricom was able to solve a couple of things but they haven't addressed the issues yet.
So what did they address; 🧵
You no longer need Internet Explorer to access the G2 portal (btw should not even exist, everything should exist in the Daraja portal or do an overhaul. That was it, they made some UI changes to the dashboard, I like the TRY API functionality that works with STK push alone 😆.
I would like to apologize on behalf of all developers to the user who owns test@gmail.com account.
At this point, I think Slack should have its own version of Google drive.
The MPESA API problem 1
I have interacted with the @SafaricomPLC Mpesa API for a while now, built products on top of it, it's a great product can't lie. It offers lower transaction fees and fast transactions but it has its hurdles, before and after going live and some things don't make sense.
Thread/
1/ Going live is a pain
Going live is a whole process on its own, you need certain documents to verify if one is a sole proprietor or a company, that makes sense but don't make me do that for each product