The National Archive · Wing C · Est. 2087

Admit One — Exhibition: The Developer

mwangi kabiru

Full-Stack Developer & Problem Solver

A retrospective study of Brian Mwangi Kabiru, software maker of the early GitHub era. Born Nairobi. Worked primarily in Go and TypeScript. Subject appears productive.
G GitHub L LinkedIn E Email S Substack
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I

The Portrait

Brian Mwangi Kabiru — the subject
Fig. 1 — The subject One of the few surviving portraits predating the Feed Collapse. Pigment on silicon. Photographed away from headquarters — a rarity. Gift of the subject himself, who insisted on this frame.
II

Employment Strata

Five institutions housed the subject between 2020 and the present. Excavation reveals the following layers, newest nearest the surface.

Stratum 1 · −2m · Nov 2023 - Present

Full Stack Developer

Nov 2023 - Present
Sourcefabric z.ú

Working on Live Blog, a product of SourceFabric, which is an open source platform that allows coverage of live events and breaking news with a curated timeline including text, images, audio and video from reporters and social media channels.

PythonReactAngularTypeScriptMongoDBRedisElastic

Stratum 2 · −4m · Sep 2022 - Oct 2023

Frontend Developer

Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Atlys

Improved Atlys UI/UX for both web and mobile platforms for the B2C product, resulting in increased user satisfaction and engagement. Helped migrate the integral blog section to Prismic CMS and optimized for SEO and speed.

Next.jsPythonSupabasePrismic CRMTailwind CSSReactTypeScript

Stratum 3 · −6m · Oct 2021 - Jan 2023

Full Stack Developer

Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Azenia Technology

Improved in-house bank management UI system as well as building robust APIs using Spring Boot for customer loan application process.

Spring BootJavaReactPostgreSQLDocker

Stratum 4 · −8m · Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

Full Stack Developer

Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Digital Vision EA

Enhanced user experience and accelerates web application responsiveness for our clients and users using the Chamasoft web application.

Vue.jsPythonDjangoMySQLAWS
III

The Relics

Artifacts recovered intact from the subject's repositories. Several remain operational. Scholars remain baffled.

Do Not Touch Relic № 01

elimu.dev

AI Study Tools: From Scattered Notes to Exam Confidence | ELIMU

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analitika

Get you game odds and bets analyzed by AI

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revealreveal

Create memorable reveal moments

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boardsaga

Transform your chess games into captivating stories

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raas

Romance as a Service. Your very own open-source wingman!

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tasteprint

What's your taste like ?

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calorie-counter

If AI content is harmful calories, we are about to be a generation of obese folks. Can you keep count ?

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orders-of-peaky

Get the orderbook details from Binance on your CLI and keep a synchronized local orderbook.

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drawless

Play a new chess variant where you can insert random pieces to keep it going

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thoughts.io

If your mind gets clouded and cluttered, sometimes you just want to see the thoughts float away.

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mwangi.kabiru

We all need a beautiful portfolio, right ? And in HTMX and Templ, right ? I mean, look at this minimalist one.

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anti-charts

Get the info for different crypto pairs from binance and perform analysis on it. You can also optionally make trades on Alpaca.

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anti-discover

Sometimes, Discover Weekly gets boring. Get some suggestions that you would never think of!

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IV

Tool Assemblage

Seven instruments were recovered near the workstation. Condition assessed at intake by the conservation team.

Python PythonPristine
TypeScript TypeScriptPristine
Next.js Next.jsPristine
Go GoPristine
HTMX HTMXPristine
Neovim NeovimPristine
Java JavaWeathered
Note. The Neovim instrument shows unusually heavy wear. Scholars still debate its ritual function.
V

The Fragment Corpus

Over fifty short texts were recovered from the subject's device. Purpose unknown. Possibly scripture.

"With alot in life, we see the possibilities, and not the context"

Fragments transmitted on request · via HTMX, a protocol of the period