Kim van Wyk
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A #SouthAfrica happy husband, lapsed electronic engineer, software/DevOps/data engineer (mainly in Python for the last few years), proud member of the North […]
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@mrak an odd suggestion, but I've found the Norwegian weather service's app to be excellent for coverage for me on the other side of the world, in South Africa. It's in the app store as Yr.
February 1, 2026 at 9:58 AM
@mrak an odd suggestion, but I've found the Norwegian weather service's app to be excellent for coverage for me on the other side of the world, in South Africa. It's in the app store as Yr.
@waldoj one of the amazing things about Dire Straits to me is that no other band sounds quite like them, perhaps more so than any other rock group. Knoppfler's sound is uniquely distinguishable in any song.
On a lighter vein, allow me to suggest this great tribute […]
On a lighter vein, allow me to suggest this great tribute […]
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January 29, 2026 at 5:43 PM
@waldoj one of the amazing things about Dire Straits to me is that no other band sounds quite like them, perhaps more so than any other rock group. Knoppfler's sound is uniquely distinguishable in any song.
On a lighter vein, allow me to suggest this great tribute […]
On a lighter vein, allow me to suggest this great tribute […]
@uastronomer these are more useful for in-personctalks, but it's the best I've got: https://kimvanwyk.co.za/public-speaking-tips/
Some brief tips on public speaking | Kim van Wyk's home on the web
I recently saw a great tweet from Stuart Langridge (@sil) on public speaking: Those of you who’ve done public speaking, if you were to give a five minute talk on getting into public speaking to a group of people, which points would you want to make sure you make in it? I replied with 2 tweets of suggestions, which I have slightly paraphrased here with some expansion on my suggestions:
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January 29, 2026 at 1:25 PM
@uastronomer these are more useful for in-personctalks, but it's the best I've got: https://kimvanwyk.co.za/public-speaking-tips/
@leoncowle nice ingenuity there, impressive. I suspect you could buy such a thing but it would be orders of magnitude more expensive for what will just be a relay in a plastic box.
January 10, 2026 at 7:21 AM
@leoncowle nice ingenuity there, impressive. I suspect you could buy such a thing but it would be orders of magnitude more expensive for what will just be a relay in a plastic box.
@BigG from memory via the factory floor, most of the rest of the decoder's parts are integrated circuit chips, none of which you can extract without much patience or specialist tools. The RAM and the NAND Flash don't have the storage capacity to be worth it even with the cost of RAM and the CPU […]
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January 6, 2026 at 7:51 AM
@BigG from memory via the factory floor, most of the rest of the decoder's parts are integrated circuit chips, none of which you can extract without much patience or specialist tools. The RAM and the NAND Flash don't have the storage capacity to be worth it even with the cost of RAM and the CPU […]
@jmopp I run a few static Hugo sites on Netlify and a few dynamic Python- based sites on a cheap linode server - a European provider like Hetzner would do for the latter approach. That said, I see Docker as a suitable hammer for every problem from years of usage at work, so this approach may not […]
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December 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@jmopp I run a few static Hugo sites on Netlify and a few dynamic Python- based sites on a cheap linode server - a European provider like Hetzner would do for the latter approach. That said, I see Docker as a suitable hammer for every problem from years of usage at work, so this approach may not […]
@BigG assuming you're still in Durban, the sun had been up for more than 4 hours by 9:30, so it's lunchtime-ish, and fruit and Prosecco at lunch is surely fine.
December 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
@BigG assuming you're still in Durban, the sun had been up for more than 4 hours by 9:30, so it's lunchtime-ish, and fruit and Prosecco at lunch is surely fine.
@BigG I'm not actually much of a bunny connoisseur but some that come to mind close to you:.
* The store at the Sasol garage in Mt Edgecombe on Siphusethu road has a great reputation.
* Inside Mistry's furniture on Umhlanga Ridge is a hole in the wall with great bunnies.
* Canecutters on […]
* The store at the Sasol garage in Mt Edgecombe on Siphusethu road has a great reputation.
* Inside Mistry's furniture on Umhlanga Ridge is a hole in the wall with great bunnies.
* Canecutters on […]
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December 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@BigG I'm not actually much of a bunny connoisseur but some that come to mind close to you:.
* The store at the Sasol garage in Mt Edgecombe on Siphusethu road has a great reputation.
* Inside Mistry's furniture on Umhlanga Ridge is a hole in the wall with great bunnies.
* Canecutters on […]
* The store at the Sasol garage in Mt Edgecombe on Siphusethu road has a great reputation.
* Inside Mistry's furniture on Umhlanga Ridge is a hole in the wall with great bunnies.
* Canecutters on […]
@BigG welcome to town! If your walk takes you to the south end of the beach, the coffee stand over from Durban View Park, Daily Dose, is superb. On the north end, don't turn around when the bricks end, enter the forest and go along the wooden walkway, it's a great experience as well.
December 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
@BigG welcome to town! If your walk takes you to the south end of the beach, the coffee stand over from Durban View Park, Daily Dose, is superb. On the north end, don't turn around when the bricks end, enter the forest and go along the wooden walkway, it's a great experience as well.
@uastronomer @leoncowle @mothninja I was actually going to ask you Alan if you understood it. I also got everything but "brevs" and I suspect the way I heard it all in my head is pretty accurate too.
December 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
@uastronomer @leoncowle @mothninja I was actually going to ask you Alan if you understood it. I also got everything but "brevs" and I suspect the way I heard it all in my head is pretty accurate too.
https://github.com/kimvanwyk/advent_of_code/blob/master/2025/day07.py if this would be helpful to anyone.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
https://github.com/kimvanwyk/advent_of_code/blob/master/2025/day07.py if this would be helpful to anyone.
@uastronomer I have a double cab Ranger from years ago and it's already bigger than I'd like. If I could buy a smaller 5 seater bakkie I would have done but there's nothing like that available anymore, even before the current new crop of tank sized monsters.
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
@uastronomer I have a double cab Ranger from years ago and it's already bigger than I'd like. If I could buy a smaller 5 seater bakkie I would have done but there's nothing like that available anymore, even before the current new crop of tank sized monsters.
@GrahamDowns @jmopp @leoncowle I was going to say here, I realised a while ago i stopped getting Bhuti for "young man" from polite Zulu shopkeepers and started getting "Baba", for middle aged man. It's not based on relative age, it's an honorific as a gesture of respect for the age you appear to be.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
@GrahamDowns @jmopp @leoncowle I was going to say here, I realised a while ago i stopped getting Bhuti for "young man" from polite Zulu shopkeepers and started getting "Baba", for middle aged man. It's not based on relative age, it's an honorific as a gesture of respect for the age you appear to be.
@GrahamDowns being culturally English, I found it jarring when 20 year old polite young Afrikaans chaps addressed both myself in my late 30s and my fellow Lions member in his 80s as "oom" when we served them a wors roll. I realise they were being unfailingly polite but it still tripped my brain […]
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November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
@GrahamDowns being culturally English, I found it jarring when 20 year old polite young Afrikaans chaps addressed both myself in my late 30s and my fellow Lions member in his 80s as "oom" when we served them a wors roll. I realise they were being unfailingly polite but it still tripped my brain […]
@davep you could presumably cut one of those out of your lives but maybe you should keep both in case one warps and then you have to trek around town for a new one.
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
@davep you could presumably cut one of those out of your lives but maybe you should keep both in case one warps and then you have to trek around town for a new one.
@uastronomer I've worked with many a sysadmin and cosplayed one on occasion - I assumed you were *downplaying* the amount of standard adversarialness.
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
@uastronomer I've worked with many a sysadmin and cosplayed one on occasion - I assumed you were *downplaying* the amount of standard adversarialness.
@uastronomer although I do think " it's not brain surgery" is possibly my favourite, for delivering an hilarious sketch despite telegraphing the joke from a mile away.
October 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
@uastronomer although I do think " it's not brain surgery" is possibly my favourite, for delivering an hilarious sketch despite telegraphing the joke from a mile away.
@uastronomer "Are we the Baddies" is undoubtedly a classic but I'm also very fond of their Grammar Nazi sketch (amongst many, many others)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs
October 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@uastronomer "Are we the Baddies" is undoubtedly a classic but I'm also very fond of their Grammar Nazi sketch (amongst many, many others)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs