Thoughts on consumer tech, innovation and startups. Founder of @Owinna; @TEDFellow; husband & father. My views are mine only.
Lilongwe, Malawi
Joined March 2007
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Connect with God through today’s devotional! odbm.org/en/devotionals/devo…
📖 Read: Psalm 30:1-12
🙏 Receive: "Dear God, thank You for Your comfort."
❓Respond: When have you experienced God’s comfort? How can you receive that comfort today?
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Connect with God through today’s devotional! odbm.org/en/devotionals/devo…
📖 Read: 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
🙏 Receive: "Loving God, I need encouragement through this tough journey. I pray for assurance of Your eternal glory."
❓Respond: What does “eternal glory” mean to you?
Until yesterday, I thought Dolly Parton covered Whitney's "I will always love you", but it's vice versa. – at Malawi
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An email I sent to the summer 2007 YC batch to encourage them before Demo Day. It's all still true today.
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#WorldCup #3rdPlace
FT: France 4-6 England
(Mbappé 48' 66', Barcola 54', Dembélé 90 6' ⚽ Rice 3', Konsa 18', Saka 37' 45+1' 87' P, Bellingham 90+8')
owinna.com/world/worldcup/20…
📌 To watch later.
Expecting that the insights will be applicable to other coding LLMs. – at Malawi
Anthropic just released a 4-hour course to getting a $500k AI engineering job:
00:15 - The right way to prompt Claude
33:21 - What makes Claude act dumber on your code
01:33:39 - How Anthropic use Claude every day
02:50:56 - The fix that makes Claude way smarter This
4-hour Anthropic free course replaces about 10 paid engineering courses.
Watch it today, then read the step-by-step guide on building loops below.
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Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:
"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."
"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."
Elon breaks it down:
Step 1: Question the requirements.
"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."
Step 2: Try to delete it.
"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."
Step 3: Optimize or simplify.
"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."
Step 4: Speed it up.
"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."
Step 5: Automate.
"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."
Elon explains why the order matters:
"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."
Congratulations Babatunde! 💪
Babatunde Thanks FAM and Coaches After First Goal
Flames forward Babatunde Adepoju has thanked the FAM for giving him the opportunity to play for the national team, and the coaches for their trust after he netted his first international goal for Malawi.
owinna.com/wadza.kasonga.jr.…
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#MatchDay
#AfricaGames
Eq. Guinea 21:00 Comoros
Niger 21:00 Mauritania
#EuropeanGames
France 21:10 N. Ireland
#WorldGames
Netherlands 20:45 Uzbekistan
#CAFOlympicWq
Djibouti W 15:30 Mauritius W
Comoros W 16:00 Sudan W
Owinna.com
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Simply ❤️ this, nails perfectly🎯
Time management is just another word for 'focus'.
Zero-in on your goals, that's what separates winners from the ones who are aimless & distracted. 💯
Excited to DiVine launched. Congratulations @rabble!
Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/ja…
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Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.
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You needed to merge two PDFs last week.
You Googled "merge PDF free." You clicked the first result. You uploaded your tax return and your pay stub to a website you had never heard of. It merged them in 3 seconds. You downloaded the file and moved on.
You never thought about what happened to your documents.
They were uploaded to a server in a country you cannot name. Processed by software you cannot audit. Stored for a duration nobody disclosed. Your tax return. Your pay stub. Your salary. Your signature. On a stranger's disk. Forever.
You did this voluntarily. In under 10 seconds. Without reading a single word of fine print.
There is a tool that does everything those websites do. On YOUR computer. Your files never leave your machine.
It is called Stirling-PDF. 77,100+ stars on GitHub. 25 million+ downloads. The #1 PDF application on all of GitHub.
Here is what it does:
→ Merge PDFs. Split PDFs. Compress PDFs. Rotate and reorder pages.
→ Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images. And back again.
→ Add passwords. Remove passwords. Flatten forms. Sanitize metadata.
→ Sign PDFs with a drawn signature, typed name, or digital certificate.
→ OCR scanned documents with Tesseract to make them searchable.
→ Add watermarks, page numbers, headers, footers, and stamps.
→ Redact text and images permanently. Crop, deskew, and repair.
→ View and annotate PDFs directly in your browser.
→ No-code automation pipelines to batch-process thousands of files.
→ REST API for every tool. Automate every operation.
→ Desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. No browser needed.
→ One Docker command to self-host everything.
Here's the wildest part:
Adobe Acrobat Pro costs $19.99 per month. That is $239.88 a year.
Acrobat Studio: $24.99 per month. That is $299.88 a year.
Smallpdf Pro: $108 per year.
iLovePDF Premium: $60 per year.
A 10-person team on Adobe pays $2,660 a year to edit documents.
And every single one of those tools processes your files on THEIR servers.
Stirling-PDF processes everything locally. Your files exist on your machine. The server sits on your hardware. The network stays inside your walls.
77,100+ stars. 6,700+ forks. 175 releases. 4,900+ commits. 48% TypeScript and 43% Java.
MIT-licensed core. Self-host it. Fork it. Ship it.
100% Open Source.
(Link in the comments)
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Tobi built the original Shopify codebase himself in 2004. Then he spent 20 years doing what every founder-CEO does: slowly drifting into meetings, board decks, and strategy docs while the thing that made him dangerous collected dust.
94 commits in 2024. That’s a CEO who codes occasionally on weekends. 833 in 2025. That’s someone who found a way back in. 957 in 45 days of 2026. That’s a builder again.
The pattern repeating across tech right now is something nobody predicted about AI. Everyone focused on which jobs AI would replace. The bigger story is which skills AI is resurrecting. Founders who stopped coding a decade ago are shipping features. Executives who used to need a team of three to prototype an idea are doing it over lunch. The distance between “I have an idea” and “I built the thing” collapsed from weeks to hours.
Tobi’s been porting his own tools across languages using Claude as a compiler, publishing CLI utilities, and writing open source on his personal GitHub. The CEO of a $150B company is personally shipping to package managers on weekends.
That’s the part worth paying attention to. AI gave Tobi back the part of the job he loved and had to abandon to scale. The best founders were always builders first. The ones who drifted away didn’t want to. They just ran out of hours.
Now they have the hours back.
CEO of Shopify @tobi is shipping more code than ever.
2024: 94 commits
2025: 833 commits
2026: 957 commits (in first 45 days of the year)
Claude is turning CEOs back to builder mode.
