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Cheap Audi, Expensive Lesson: A Financial Time Machine

In 2020 I spent good money on a B8 Audi that was dead in eight months. So I built a calculator to find out what that money would've done in NMB shares instead. The answer stung.

Jun 15, 2026

TanzaniaInvestingPersonal

I sat my O-Levels in 2010. The NECTA results site hasn't changed since. So I redesigned it.

The NECTA results site has looked the same since I sat my O-Levels in 2010. So I rebuilt it, with a scraper, a cache, and the data lens my sister actually needed.

Jun 2, 2026

TanzaniaEducationCloudflare

Accountability Theater Is Easy. Accountability Infrastructure Takes Thought.

DOGE's mass email mandate was a masterclass in what not to do, and a blueprint for what to build instead.

May 28, 2026

EngineeringGovernmentCloudflare

I Had 4,291 Twitter Bookmarks I Knew Nothing About and Found a Map of My Own Mind

I spent a weekend building a pipeline to categorize years of Twitter bookmarks and discovered the actual shape of how I think.

Apr 28, 2026

AILLMsPython

Tanzania's Telecom Evolution: An Interactive Data Story

Building interactive racing bar charts to explore Tanzania's telecommunications and mobile money landscape

Oct 9, 2025

Data VisualizationPythonGemini AI

My First Post!

Introducing my personal site and the stack that powers it

Oct 8, 2025

AstroSvelteTailwind CSS