Posted on May 29, 2019 • 3 min read

We use and love Slack for team messaging, throughout the day. I needed to integrate slack with some of my IoT devices in the office and at home primarily because of its simplistic API as compared to WhatsApp and Telegram (that I never use). [Read More]

Posted on April 14, 2019 • 14 min read

I love reading Medium post time to time, but never have enough time between juggling school, work and family the dream of reading daily posts just happens to fade into the abyss over time. And the links to posts that interest me keep on piling up and up on my Google Keep. [Read More]

Posted on April 4, 2019 • 1 min read

Note: I am not the original author of this piece, I merely found it very profound and had to have it on my blog. [Read More]

Posted on February 28, 2019 • 13 min read

TLDR; You can set up a new system using dotfiles and an installation script in minutes. It’s not hard to create your own repository, and you’ll learn a ton along the road. This is truly more about the journey than the destination! [Read More]

Posted on February 24, 2019 • 5 min read

After almost 4 years of using my Dell Latitude E5540, I was due for an upgrade. Well I must say, this laptop has served it’s purpose and I enjoyed every minute of it apart from the battery life and the failing disk which causes my system to just freeze time to time, as I digress. [Read More]

Posted on November 28, 2018 • 6 min read

If like me, you create a lot of pull requests in a day and annoyed of the idea of repeatedly visiting GitHub to create a PR - do not get me wrong the website is great and all, but it can be annoying sometimes having to leave your CLI and open your browser (which has serious implications for your productivity IMHO). [Read More]

Posted on November 13, 2018 • 6 min read

If you are reading this post, either you have suffered from Imposter Syndrome knowingly or unknowingly. [Read More]

Posted on November 5, 2018 • 1 min read

Posted on October 23, 2018 • 8 min read

I haven’t had time to complete my Jenkins CI Docker container series, but lets put it all together. In this post, I will dive down as to how I managed to automate the installation of Jenkins and SonarQube, and I will also add a demo video on how I got everything to work flawlessly. [Read More]

Posted on October 21, 2018 • 3 min read

As a developer, one always needs to be learning consistently in-order to improve they’re skills that is exactly what I told my colleague the other day while I was scrolling through my phone trying to clean up some space, I remember he was like, “Mpho why do you have so many apps?” [Read More]