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I'm Nik. I build software for myself and for others. Exploration of life's many facets is my aim. This website is for my non-career oriented writings & projects.
Projects
Just the ones that made it over the finish line.
Self-hosted Nextcloud & Monica PRM using Ansible + Terraform
Communities
I enjoy participating in online communities. My main port of call is ZATech, and I organise the PHP South Africa meetup.
Slack group for the South African tech community
Gathering South Africa's PHP Developers.
Companies
My best work is done in product-oriented companies. I've worked in all sorts of team sizes from 2 to 50.
Europe's #1 classic car & auctions website
South Africa's #1 fashion e-commerce website
Developers of the Hey Jude app
ISP for South African Colleges
Writing/Talks
A look at some interesting projects in the PHP community
A quick review of big changes to PHP in the 2010s.
Playing around with the then-new Laravel Telescope.
An overview of Grav CMS.
An article on privacy, tracking, and echo chambers.
An article on privacy, tracking, and echo chambers.
My understanding cryptocurrencies in 2017.