software engineer, loves building things, enjoys node, ruby, react, django.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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,
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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
Whenever I feel some self-doubt vibes creeping up I watch this video and somehow I feel better again. :)
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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