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Everyone says "patent it." In Tanzania, it's complicated.

Everyone says "patent it." In Tanzania, it's complicated.

I registered my WhatsApp maths tutor with COSOTA and thought I had locked a vault. I had a receipt. What copyright, trademarks, trade secrets and execution actually protect for a software founder in Tanzania.

TanzaniaLawSoftware
With my budget, what part of Dar es Salaam can I actually afford?

With my budget, what part of Dar es Salaam can I actually afford?

Old-school supervised ML on scraped Instagram rental listings, turned into a Dar es Salaam rent calculator. Cleaning beat the model, location and bedrooms explain about 70% of rent, and the real barrier is the advance, not the monthly.

TanzaniaDataMachine Learning
Cheap Audi, Expensive Lesson: A Financial Time Machine

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.

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

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.

TanzaniaEducationCloudflare
Accountability Theater Is Easy. Accountability Infrastructure Takes Thought.

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.

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

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.

AILLMsPython
Tanzania's Telecom Evolution: An Interactive Data Story

Tanzania's Telecom Evolution: An Interactive Data Story

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

Data VisualizationPythonGemini AI
My First Post!

My First Post!

Introducing my personal site and the stack that powers it

AstroSvelteTailwind CSS

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