I live in Ceres, South Africa with my wife, Lauren, and four champs: Judah, Hosea, Avah and Ariah.
Iām a Software Engineering Lead with 15 years of experience, building online solutions. Iām a problem solver with a keen interest in people, processes and clarity. Iāve spent the last decade at Automattic and have helped grow and scale up WooCommerce teams. I write here occasionally and would love to chat to you. Feel free to reach out.
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Most Recent Posts:
AI credits and a little inconvenience
The Afternoon I Learned to Love tmux list-sessions
Pesky Neovim Rails LSP migration popup.
For the last while Iāve had this annoying lsp popup that shows up when I add a migration:
Beat the Budget: Klop!
Klop!
āKlopā, Afrikaans for conquer/beat. Thatās the name of my new app (still in development). It will live at klop.finance and will be a budgeting tool built with the purpose of helping people reach their financial goals. Get out of debt, save towards a target, understand where they stand on a day by day basis, without scratching their heads.
Next Chapter version 2025
Itās time for me to move on and Iām pretty excited. I had a wonderful 2 months of reflecting and look forward to working on my startup, being open to contracting, baking some more bread as well as switching to the Ruby on Rails tech stack, which has been on my heart for a long.
Journal Numbering Hack
Farewell WooMattic
I was unfortunately affected by the recent Automattic layoffs. We had a tradition at Automattic to post a farewell message on a special message board called farewell p2. I thought Iād share it on my blog as well as many people that Iāve worked with in the last 12 years have moved on already or were part of the layoffs.
My productivity system
Iāve had this post in draft for over a year. I kept the draft to keep notes and to remind myself of my commitment to a new way to work. After learning about the new system, I jumped in head first and tried it out for a few months,but after discovering the shortcomings I stopped using it.
Converting HTML entities to UTF-8 in VimScript
I wrote a small script to fetch a web page title, inserting it as amarkdown formatted link: [title](URL) One of of the issues I ran into was that some titles contain HTML entities and Vim has no built-in way to deal with this.
On the fence about Neovim
Iāve been using vim for the last 5 years. Iāve written about trying this out 5 years ago and stuck to it. Itās a fantastic experience and I truly enjoy working with this editor. Iāve been rethinking it this week though, as I was updating my configuration to get auto-completion to work.
Small town, big internet
Fibre finally arrived in Ceres! It was a dream to have city-like-speeds in our little town.