Senior Front-end Engineer at iKhokha
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Martin Smit ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Our country is broken in so many ways.
๐ฐ Share of internet users who gambled online in the past month
1. ๐ฟ๐ฆ South Africa: 32.3%
2. ๐ณ๐ด Norway: 31.2%
3. ๐ฌ๐ท Greece: 25.8%
4. ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand: 24.0%
5. ๐ฌ๐ญ Ghana: 21.5%
6. ๐ญ๐บ Hungary: 21.5%
7. ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom: 19.6%
8. ๐ง๐ท Brazil: 19.0%
9. ๐ฆ๐น Austria: 18.7%
10. ๐ฆ๐บ Australia: 18.0%
11. ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria: 18.0%
12. ๐จ๐ฑ Chile: 16.6%
13. ๐ฐ๐ช Kenya: 16.0%
14. ๐ต๐น Portugal: 15.8%
15. ๐ญ๐ท Croatia: 15.5%
16. ๐น๐ญ Thailand: 15.0%
17. ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong: 14.9%
18. ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland: 14.8%
19. ๐ท๐ธ Serbia: 14.4%
20. ๐ง๐ช Belgium: 14.3%
21. ๐จ๐ฆ Canada: 14.3%
22. ๐จ๐ด Colombia: 13.8%
23. ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark: 13.8%
24. ๐ท๐ด Romania: 13.7%
25. ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico: 13.3%
26. ๐ฉ๐ช Germany: 13.2%
27. ๐ซ๐ท France: 12.7%
28. ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina: 12.5%
29. ๐ธ๐ช Sweden: 12.5%
30. ๐ช๐ธ Spain: 12.0%
31. ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland: 12.0%
32. ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: 11.9%
33. ๐ต๐ญ Philippines: 11.5%
34. ๐น๐ท Tรผrkiye: 11.1%
35. ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: 10.9%
36. ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore: 10.6%
37. ๐ต๐ฑ Poland: 10.4%
38. ๐บ๐ธ United States: 10.2%
39. ๐ฎ๐น Italy: 10.1%
40. ๐จ๐ฟ Czechia: 9.9%
41. ๐ฎ๐ณ India: 7.6%
42. ๐ฏ๐ต Japan: 7.5%
43. ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco: 7.3%
44. ๐ท๐บ Russia: 7.0%
45. ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel: 6.8%
46. ๐น๐ผ Taiwan: 6.5%
47. ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam: 5.7%
48. ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea: 2.7%
๐ Worldwide: 7.8%
Internet users aged 16+. Survey from Q2 2025. The worldwide figure is GWI's aggregate across all markets it surveys.
Source: GWI, via DataReportal Digital 2026
Too many people just compare cost, I can get do much more fir less on XYZ.
No one factors in this cost, well done @Railway . This should be at top of your comparison charts
I'm 100% sure staying on @Railway is safer than hand-rolling your own Hetzner server for your SaaS โ even after their breach.
I'd been thinking about moving Kleio to Hetzner for a long time. Then a guy at my co-working space told me he dropped the exact same plan for security reasons. He was simply too afraid in the age of AI.
I think he's right. And even if he isn't, your time (and worry!) is better spent elsewhere than managing a VPS.
Excellent report. People might be upset, but very few companies have the guts to make tough decisions like these to protect everyone.
The preliminary report related to the October 21st Security Incident is now available.
blog.railway.com/p/preliminaโฆ
Martin Smit ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
๐จ BREAKING: Nick Shirley just dropped this line in the Oval Office flanked by President Trump, and it's PURE GOLD
"I want people to think about what is happening right now...me as a 24-year-old, I went out and exposed the fraud. I just was concerned about the well-being of our tax dollars. And right now, I'm standing next to the President of the United States." ๐ฅ
"There's never been an incentive for anyone to ever expose fraud [until now]...when you expose fraud, you help save America. People understand that these fraudsters take from the poor needy who actually need the services that we all work hard to pay for, and we take that, and they then buy Mercedes!" @nickshirleyy
WELL-DESERVED FOR NICK.
A year ago, legacy media mocked him as a right-wing propagandist
Today he walked into the Oval Office with the first check for exposing fraud that the media IGNORED!!
Camera, microphone and passion for saving America. Let's freaking go.
Geez, @DendiBoss himself liked my tweet ๐ Never thought Iโd get a like from the @DOTA2 legend.
@OpenAI might have won the 1v1, but itโll never give us hooks like this. ๐ช
youtu.be/J5I-5eo_vDM?si=sIV9โฆ
Martin Smit ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
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Martin Smit ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
A visualization on how @AnthropicAI's new Scion source control works
Made with @claudeai Opus 5.5
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control systemโand fully migrated our monorepo from gitโin five months: anthropic.com/engineering/reโฆ
Martin Smit ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
Cool ship! It's faster than my port (ts-rust aka tsc-rs) in most things. I heard that they wanted to ship earlier but delayed because my --fast mode beat them ๐คฃ
That said, it looks like tsrs is the real winner
Martin Smit ๐ฟ๐ฆ retweeted
The George community will take to the streets tomorrow as the men accused and charged with the murder and stabbing of 21 year Reinbrecht Piper were released on R1000 bail each.
R1000
Justin Jafta (28) and Craig Nelson (27) were each granted bail of R1 000 by the George Magistrateโs Court on October 1
The prosecution had not viewed CCTV footage of the incident when the bail applications were heard. The prosecution and investigating officer viewed the footage on October 5.
Piperโs family has since lodged a formal complaint with prosecuting authorities about aspects of the bail proceedings and investigation.
I'll reserve my comments.
