Some photos and whatever is on my mind

30 Years on Earth: The Waves I've Ridden

Address is Approximate

I first discovered this video when I was 18 years old, early 2012. I had just gotten my first DSLR, at the time and spent a lot of time on Vimeo for inspiration & to learn about cinematography and photography. What was special about Vimeo? Vimeo is different to YouTube.

Reliving the moment

Growing up my dad would always film holidays, Christmas, birthdays and when visiting family and friends on his Sony Video 8 Handycam. We'd get back home and then I'd be all excited to have all the footage recorded onto a VHS tape from the camera and

What Sixty40 could be like if it relaunched 20 years later.

As a passionate software developer, I often find myself going into a nostalgia trip trying to think what it would be like to rebuild and relaunch Sixty40 in 2022. I used to live on Sixty40 and it played a huge role into growing my passion for the sport. After all,

Sixty40 nostalgia

I got covid

In May I got covid. I managed to avoid it for the greater part of the pandemic. Now I'm a statistic. Symptoms was pretty rough to be honest - I expected it to be borderline a cold. It was worse. I was bed bound for about 4 days

The Future of Bodyboarding

TLDR - Why is bodyboarding still not thriving? Over the years, we’ve seen multiple bodyboarding body’s, amongst them are Global Organization of Bodyboarding (GOB), International Bodyboarding Association (IBA), the Association of Professional Bodyboarders (APB) and now the International Bodyboarding Corporation - which I didn’t even know exists,

The most ironic sport

It’s been about 4 months since I started playing golf modestly-serious again. While I played a lot as a kid and during my pre-teen years, it’s something that faded a bit when surfing took priority in High School. I’ve been going to the range now once or

How to create smart playlists for Apple Music on your iPhone

I’ve been using Apple Music since it’s initial launch in 2015. It launched in South Africa long before Spotify and being a Mac + iPhone owner at the time, it was the obvious answer to my music needs. Recently on my Macbook I started playing with Smart Playlists on

Mind Travel

It’s been about a year and a half since the Covid-19 pandemic started. I came back home to South Africa at the end of 2019, to spend Christmas with the family and my grandpa who a few months before was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer. My plan then was

I built an internet performance analytics tool isplogger.com

If you’re family, friend or follower (like on Twitter), you most certainly know by now they struggles I’ve had with my internet connection in most of 2020. If not, I recommend reading these posts to familiarise yourself the the bigger picture of why I build ISP Logger: * Rain

Using Sass with Django

Quickstart - Check out the Repo on Github After nearly 2 years of almost exclusively building frontends with ReactJS, I decided to give full stack Django a visit again. I needed to build a simple & stable CRUD application and figured, going the SPA (Single Page Application) route will be

Rain Speedtest

If you’ve been following me over the last few months, you would most certainly know how many internet related issues I’ve been having since the start of 2020. If not, let’s quickly recap from the very beginning of our internet situation at home in South Africa… 1999:

How to integrate Paddle to your React JS application

Arriving in Chiang Mai

The morning of my flight to Chiang Mai, I checked in online and had that sorted. Good thing I did that as I noticed my flight is from Don Muang Airport and not the big airport where I arrived. My airbnb host explained that I can the train to the

First few days in Bangkok

Remember who you are

Whenever I feel some self-doubt vibes creeping up I watch this video and somehow I feel better again. :)

Coding for beginners

How do I build something? I’m not a programmer. If you wanna learn to make apps, build websites, etc and don’t have a budget to hire a developer, you should really take a couple of months and learn to build products. With a bit of effort and dedication

J-Bay is always magical

I've been coming to Jeffreys Bay for many years, ever since I can remember. Little did I know back then that it's home to one of the best waves in the world. In recent years as I started getting into bodyboarding I learnt more about the

I made a Telegram bot that tells me local surf conditions.

After I made Downtime bot, I decided to go a bit further and make it related to something I’m truly passionate about. Surfing. It started off with mapping out my local knowledge about surfing here. * Wind Direction * Swell Direction * Swell Size I also had to write a bit of

Getting Downtime Bot featured on Product Hunt.

Launching products is what I love doing….. well, creating products and seeing it come to life and then sharing it with the world.. It think it’s the coding part that’s addictive. Writing code and then to see my computer finally doing what I asked it to do is

One night at the Han-River

Peace Camp 2016 - Highlights

On my way to Peace Camp

Hiking to Daecheongbong at Seoraksan National Park

Over a weekend in early November 2015 my friends, Ricardo, Stefan, Fabi, Carlos and I jumped on a bus to Sokcho and hiked up one of the biggest mountains in South Korea. I'm writing this almost 7 years later, but backdated to fit in with my other posts.

2013 in photos

Arriving in Seoul for the first time - first few days part 2

Arriving in Seoul for the first time