Kim van Wyk
@kimvanwyk.co.za
A South African happy husband, lapsed Electronic Engineer, software/DevOps/data engineer (mainly in Python for the last few years), proud member of the North Durban Lions club & all-round geeky type fellow.
www.kimvanwyk.co.za
www.kimvanwyk.co.za
I think this is brilliant, but presumably it's mostly met by an orc-ward silence.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I think this is brilliant, but presumably it's mostly met by an orc-ward silence.
Ah, thank you, that makes even more sense :-)
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ah, thank you, that makes even more sense :-)
Out of ignorance and curiosity, is the blade permanently green or is there a coating of some sort on it as part of the forging?
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Out of ignorance and curiosity, is the blade permanently green or is there a coating of some sort on it as part of the forging?
I have two thoughts:
* A series of questionable choices and woolly thinking led to this being made
* What in the actual am I looking at
* A series of questionable choices and woolly thinking led to this being made
* What in the actual am I looking at
September 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have two thoughts:
* A series of questionable choices and woolly thinking led to this being made
* What in the actual am I looking at
* A series of questionable choices and woolly thinking led to this being made
* What in the actual am I looking at
I'm impressed at how deftly that pun was woven into your post.
September 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm impressed at how deftly that pun was woven into your post.
I remember those - if anything, they left a far worse and messier page than the pencil marks you were trying to erase. Form over function is an excellent description.
August 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I remember those - if anything, they left a far worse and messier page than the pencil marks you were trying to erase. Form over function is an excellent description.
I suspect the J has faded on the inscription on the statue, that's the South African statesman Jan Smuts: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts
Jan Smuts - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I suspect the J has faded on the inscription on the statue, that's the South African statesman Jan Smuts: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smuts
It might also help to think of it as a board-based version of gin rummy, the card game (assuming that means anything to you).
July 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It might also help to think of it as a board-based version of gin rummy, the card game (assuming that means anything to you).
I get pretty good integrated results with my work email on a Linux box using Thunderbird and Owl For Exchange, which I bought for a pretty low once off payment.
June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I get pretty good integrated results with my work email on a Linux box using Thunderbird and Owl For Exchange, which I bought for a pretty low once off payment.
Sadly as of a few years ago I'm no longer "Youth" even by the ANC's flexible definition :-)
June 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Sadly as of a few years ago I'm no longer "Youth" even by the ANC's flexible definition :-)
You *have* remembered it's a public holiday here? Forgetting would certainly put me in a bad mood...
June 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
You *have* remembered it's a public holiday here? Forgetting would certainly put me in a bad mood...
The tracks are pretty loose, so you can pick the closest to the talk, even if it's not very accurate. They're mainly used as rough guidance to the reviewers.
June 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The tracks are pretty loose, so you can pick the closest to the talk, even if it's not very accurate. They're mainly used as rough guidance to the reviewers.
And the week after that, walk back down?
June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
And the week after that, walk back down?
At least once, the next guy has been me - revisiting the code a year later and wondering why I put this odd looking piece of code in, removing it and painfully remembering what it was for when the test environment fails.
May 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
At least once, the next guy has been me - revisiting the code a year later and wondering why I put this odd looking piece of code in, removing it and painfully remembering what it was for when the test environment fails.