Author: Leo Gopal
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Presentation at Cape Town PHP Meetup Group on Efficiency in a Development Environment
Last night, 17th November 2015, I had the honor of speaking alongside Sarah Nicholson at the Cape Town PHP Meetup Group on the topic of ‘Efficiency in a Development Environment‘. The evening was wonderfully organised by Shaun Morrow, who sets up these events in the PHP community in Cape Town as a wonderful way of…
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Lessons learned from an examined life – Part 1
In Plato’s Apology, which is a recollection of speeches of Socrates at his trial, he quotes Socrates for having said: ὁ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ Vita nec scrutata vita nequam est. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates would have much rather given up his life than given up philosophy – and his…
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The Egg – A short story by Andy Weir
You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off,…
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Variations on the Word “Sleep” by Margaret Atwood
I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head
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Seneca: On The Shortness of Life
When I was in high school I had an Afrikaans language teacher in ninth grade who loved history, culture and philosophy more than he did language – our language lessons then would be spent talking about philosophy (he mostly talking) or telling historical stories – he was seen as quite the weirdo and was also quite…
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WooCommerce Cape Town Meetup
This was quite an eventful meet-up in Cape Town for WooCommerce. The highlights, for me, speaking about ‘Making WooCommerce your own‘ and Mark Forrester’s Q&A about the WooThemes Acquisition with Sean Parker-Ross. Good times at last night's #WooCommerce Cape Town Meetup, including @leogopal's excellent talk on store customising. pic.twitter.com/ElNRPe1GMk — WooThemes (@WooThemes) June 19, 2015…
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Writing for HeroPress
Last week I had the honor of writing an essay for HeroPress titled: “W-W-Waiting for the right circumstances“. The response to it was great (judging by retweets, DM’s, and emails.) I am absolutely grateful to Topher DeRosia for giving me such an honor. Topher is the awesome guy behind HeroPress.com.
