tech 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
Tutorials 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
notes How I got fibre Draft, expect typos, spelling and grammar errors, etc ——- last updated 8 September 2020 Spoiler: I don’t have fibre yet, but will have soon. It’s a humid Sunday afternoon in mid February 2020 on the KZN South Coast. Everyone in the house is hot, moody and stressed out
tech 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:
Tutorials How to integrate Paddle to your React JS application Grab the project’s source code from Github here! Being from South Africa, I unfortunately don’t have true access to Stripe - which is the goto Payment Processor most startups today. Due to some backwards South African laws, apparently it’s illegal for South African Payment Processor to accept
notes 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
travel First few days in Bangkok On 10 October 2019 I spontaneously booked a 3 month trip to Thailand. It’s been a few months coming. I made myself a promise to spend New Years outside of South Africa. After some friends, mostly remote workers and software developers said they’ll be spending time in Thailand,
Tutorials How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends (and photos) Facebook is boring, it used to be great now it’s boring. I used to have 200 friends now I have 1500. There is no way I know 1500 people. Draconian measures must be taken to save my relationship with the social network. The unfriend button is my path to
Remember who you are Whenever I feel some self-doubt vibes creeping up I watch this video and somehow I feel better again. :)
tech 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
surfing 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
surfing 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
korea One night at the Han-River A couple of days prior, my friend Corey invited me to go “camping”. At first we wanted to stay at an actual camping site, specifically Nanji – the spot where we used to have our annual South African Braai. However, to our disappointment, the camping site was fully booked, so we
korea Peace Camp 2016 - Highlights In my previous blog post, I promised to update my blog as often as possible… although due to limited wifi & free time, spending 40 minutes everyday writing an article was basically out of the question. The 2016 Peace Camp, hosted by the MPVA (Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs)
korea On my way to Peace Camp Not too long ago, I got invited to the annual Peace Camp in Korea. They are flying hundreds of descendants of Korean War Veterans from around the world in to Korea for the week. Easy for the organisers, South Africa (me) already lives here. I’m writing this blog post
korea Featured The other side of Gangnam One of my German classmates in Korea posted a photo of him standing next to a shack on Instagram with no context. I initially thought the photo what taken somewhere along his travels through Africa, and coming from South Africa myself, I thought that's brave thing to do
korea 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.
travel Our trip to Timbavati The week I've been looking forward to all holiday have finally arrived - To spend a week with my family and some family friends in the Timbavati Game Reserve. We decided up front, to spend 1 night in the Kruger National Park, at Lower Sabie to ease the
How the bodyboarding changed my life... #The Accident A Series I'll be starting of how The Surfing and Bodyboarding lifestyle I lived during High School changed my life. Going Back In Time ~~~~ February 2007 I was 13 years old, new into High School and ready for the new “bigger” world to open up after I just
korea The First Semester Just a short overview of the first semester. I will post more individual stories. I arrived back in Korea end February, just before the University year began. It has been an amazing holiday back in South Africa - nothing beats seeing friends and family and eating South African food again.
