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…

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

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…

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…