An engineer at lyr.jp measured round-trip times from Tokyo to AWS regions worldwide, finding a 5ms local latency versus 373ms to Cape Town—a 70x spread. The 166ms round trip to the US East Coast consu…
Gail Weiner, a former C-suite executive at a tech company, reflects on how status-seeking behavior once tied to luxury goods like her Mercedes is now manifesting in the AI industry, where access to pr…
The PIBBSS Fellowship is accepting applications for its inaugural winter cohort, a fully-funded research program in Cape Town, South Africa from November 2026 to February 2027. The program supports re…
SaaS Pegasus founder Cory Zue is splitting his time between his Django boilerplate and contracting gigs while living in Cape Town. He is heavily experimenting with AI agents using Pydantic AI, contemp…
A developer built CyberBuddy, a gamified Android app that serves as a personal cybersecurity coach for everyday users who cannot afford enterprise-grade security tools. The app, powered by a Gemini A2…