Kenya

day 1 of Ubucon Kenya was packed. like, properly packed. the kind of lineup where every talk makes you want to go home and spin up a new project. here’s a rundown of everything that went down. Ubuntu cloud-init: from development to production with Multipass speaker: Duncan Njoroge (@guyfromtheke) Duncan kicked things off with a practical walkthrough of cloud-init and Multipass for local development workflows. the core idea is simple: you define your entire server configuration in a YAML file (packages, users, SSH keys, scripts) and cloud-init applies it when an instance boots. Multipass lets you spin up Ubuntu VMs locally with that same cloud-init config, so your local dev environment mirrors what you’ll deploy to production. ...

i was scrolling through X yesterday and stumbled on a Microsoft Learn tweet that hit different. the tweet itself was simple enough: “AI agents don’t replace infrastructure. They run on top of it.” but the replies turned it into one of the most technically honest conversations i’ve seen on that app in a while. View on X the engagement … the ratio was wisdom, not war. i read the whole thread. then i read it again. and then i sat with it for a while because some of it scared me, some of it gave me hope, and all of it made me think about what i need to do next. ...