Cyclone Swell

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

Kruger 2020

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

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

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