An engineer who always arrived on time.

Been running our little business (side hustle called AutomateIt) for a little over a year and finally getting into our groove. We still do online orders for smart devices and I don’t know if that feeling of waking up to a sale will ever go away.

What an absolutely beautiful, kind and classy tribute to Siya Kolisi by Squidge Rugby. This is not only a tribute to Siya but in some ways, a love letter to the Boks and maybe, just maybe, to us as South Africans too.

Is anyone on SA Twitter/X doing the monetisation thing? Is it working for you or no?

Me: _let me do this one feature quick_ Also me: _might as well update that quickly to utilise said feature better_ Me after a few days:

TIL that Kinsta has a South Africa location for their WordPress Managed Hosting... kinsta.com/docs/service-i… Not that I'm trying hard to listen, but I don't need Kubernetes to run a single WordPress website...

Love their willingness to share no issues and resolutions.

Always good to have perspective. If you want to subscribe to just MotoGP and F1. That's R700 a month. DSTV streaming only is R799 and you get football, rugby, cricket, other racing, boxing and so much more.

I take solace in the fact that the Proteas have never last a World Cup final.😅

Not all records you’re happy about breaking: Cloudflare recently mitigated the largest ever reported hyper-volumetric #DDoS attack. 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and 2.14 billion packets per second (Bpps). Handled automatically any without any customer impact. Details to come.

I was recently asked about object caching in WordPress and what that looks like on Kinsta. This blog pretty much sums up all the caching strategies available to the web in general but specifically to WordPress: kinsta.com/blog/wordpress…

"That's the deal. That's open source. I give you a gift of code, you accept the terms of the license. There cannot be a second set of shadow obligations that might suddenly apply, if you strike it rich using the software. Then the license is meaningless." world.hey.com/dhh/automattic…

Seagyn Davis Cloudflare Increasingly skeptical of Wireguard. Protocol hasn’t kept up. We’re much more excited about MASQUE.