Author: Michael

  • Setting up Jenkins

    Setting up Jenkins

    This is part 1 of my CI/CD experiment. In this post, I’ll be focusing on getting Jenkins up and running. This build was supposed to take me 15 to 30 minutes but I kept running into issues that needed fixing that ballooned that time to a few hours. I haven’t mentioned them here but I’ve…

  • Setting up my own CI/CD

    Setting up my own CI/CD

    So I’m a fan of automation because I don’t like repeating stuff and I’m lazy. One of the things I learned at my job is to automate CI/CD. I had a little time during the weekend and I decided to actually implement my own CI/CD setup and decided that since I’m going to do it…

  • Young people are awesome

    Young people are awesome

    I met a young author today. 20 years old and she already has two books published. I bought one of her books just to be polite, then I actually read it. It’s actually pretty well written. The pacing is a little off and I’m not a fan of the genre but it’s a good read.…

  • NieR: Automata is fucking awesome.

    NieR: Automata is fucking awesome.

    So growing up I was an avid gamer, heck till around 3 or 4 years ago I was still pretty hard core. I stopped playing because life, my job and school conspired to screw me out of video games. So I haven’t really been gaming that much. I still play every now and then, but…

  • Making Moves

    Making Moves

    Life is scary. You get so used to what you’re currently doing and stick to that even though it doesn’t give you the result that you want. You stick to it because that’s all you know. I am guilty of sticking to the same thing. Albert Einstein was quoted saying the definition of insanity is…

  • Whew, I’m Tired

    Whew, I’m Tired

    Well, that was a hectic last couple of weeks. When things go south they tend to go south remarkably fast. Over the last few weeks I’ve been busy, so here’s an update. First, I joined a new gym, yay. I like this one, it’s well stocked and has a heated pool. I am definitely going…

  • Mathematics

    Mathematics

    Mathematics is fun… I hope. Last August I wrote a quick post about how I was going back to school to do Mathematics and Statistics… it’s official, I’m back in school. I’m currently taking the B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of South Africa. Yay. Th application and registration process came with…

  • A tiny look at the history of money

    A tiny look at the history of money

    Let’s get this party started with a brief look at the history and purpose of money. This wont be an argument on which types of money is best or that whole gold standards or fiat money thing, I’ll get to that latter. This post looks at money from where it came from and why it…

  • One plus One

    One plus One

    In high school was at best a disinterested mathematics student, I could do it and I passed but my heart really wasn’t in it. I was more into physics that mathematics and it was only after I left formal education that I realised that there is really no getting away from it. My first qualification…

  • New series: Money

    New series: Money

    Money! Money, money, money, moooooooooney. Mooooooooooooooooooooooooney! It’s been called every name under the sun and everyone wants it. It has many definitions, such as:. It is just a physical representation of the abstract concept of effort or It is an abstract representation of barter. or It is a medium of exchange through which all men damn…