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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
