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Field notes on shipping software, security, and data work across Uganda and East Africa.

Practical writing on software delivery, AI, and technology in Uganda, East Africa and the world, by Moses Olara.

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Africa 09 October 2026 8 min read

Africa's AI Moment Is Local Languages and Small Bandwidth

The African AI opportunity is not chatbots for the connected few. It is local languages, offline delivery and unglamorous problems like school report cards.

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Uganda 06 October 2026 8 min read

Uganda's Technology Status Quo in 2026

An honest look at where Uganda's technology sector actually stands: mobile money as the real platform, the cost of staying online, power, and digitisation.
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East Africa 02 October 2026 8 min read

Four Neighbours, Four Bets: East African Tech Compared

Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda made different wagers on mobile money, digital ID and state platforms. What each does well, and what Uganda can borrow.
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Global 29 September 2026 7 min read

The Human Position in an AI Era

Where people stand when machines draft and translate: responsibility, taste and trust, seen from a pipeline pushing Acholi text through an open Ugandan model.
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Engineering 25 September 2026 8 min read

Figuring Out What Went Wrong: A Debugging Field Guide

A working method for finding the cause of a production problem: reproduce it, narrow it, read the real error, test one hypothesis, and know when to stop.
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Engineering 22 September 2026 7 min read

What the Best Engineers Actually Do

Habits I have watched work in the OpenMRS community and in Ugandan client projects: reading before writing, small verified slices, and saying no early.
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Project Delivery 18 September 2026 8 min read

What Actually Goes Wrong on Software Projects in Uganda

Power, connectivity, procurement cycles, scope drift and data on one laptop: the real failure modes of Ugandan software projects, and what de-risks them.
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AI 15 September 2026 7 min read

Leverage When Everyone Has AI

Judgement, ownership, domain knowledge and distribution are the leverage that survives cheap generation. Lessons from building for cooperatives and churches.
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Project Delivery 11 September 2026 8 min read

Shipping Software in Small, Verified Slices

Why big-bang launches keep failing, what a vertical slice actually is, and how to sell staged delivery to a client who has already paid for the whole thing.
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AI 08 September 2026 7 min read

AI Is Removing the Middle of Software Engineering

What AI coding tools actually take away from the profession, what they cannot touch, and what a young engineer in Kampala should be learning instead.

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