I took beekeeping training given by The Hive Grouphttps://thehivegp.com/ at their beautiful farm in Yatta Fieldshttps://maps.app.goo.gl/2i6Uxi9RgUs5rrR7A. These are my notes from the training. TL;DR - Quick Reference Getting Started: - Select site with forage within 4km, water access, 50m from people/roads - 30 hives ma...
November 24, 2025
One thing to keep in mind in this post, learning can happen in many forms. It’s a means of acquiring knowledge or skill. Think of learning in the broadest possible sense. Imagine that all the knowledge in the world divided into sections. I like to imagine that each section is like the Wardrobe in Narnia. Start digging in a...
May 27, 2022
Notes to self while learning testing react apps from this workshophttps://github.com/kentcdodds/testing-react-apps. "The more your test resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you." When we think about how things are used, we need to consider who the users are: 1. The end user that's int...
June 19, 2021
I like CSS. It wasn't always like this. I studied Software Engineering at my University. I remember about two years into my studies being extremely frustrated at styling websites. I could never quite make the interfaces I wanted. I could never build the visuals I had in mind because nothing ever worked as I planned. I rem...
June 9, 2021
Getting into tailwind for the first time felt uncomfortable for me. I didn't understand and didn't look into the utility CSS approach. Things like AutoPrefixer, PostCSS, and PurgeCSS and configuring them shied me away from tailwind for a long time. But that was ~2 years ago. Tailwind is getting more and more popular; Instal...
February 25, 2021
Still in the middle of lockdown 😫, but working remotely and plenty of things to do online. I learned TypeScript! My team at work decided to write our React with TypeScript. We felt it would address some issues we had. Learning it had some learning curves especially with typing some DOM elements and events - but I found th...
February 9, 2021
The goal with nds is to experiment with things I find cool or interesting. Even though this site currently has good performance, my ultimate goal is not to make a site with the trendiest designs or the perfect lighthouse scores. I initially started it to learn Gatsby. As time went on I added tech and concepts I liked. 1\....
July 25, 2020
This is a review of the first half of 2020. Months January until June. It was my last semester in my five year undergraduate program studying Software Engineering. On the last semester the main thing we work on is the final and big project to conclude our studies. The semester kicked off; we started taking classes and my t...
July 22, 2020
I first started working on this site a year ago. — I started working on it again when I had spare time as the COVID-19 situation arose. Coming back to the codebase after a year of experience building products in JavaScript, React, and CSS among other things - I immediately saw multiple places where I could write much cleane...
July 12, 2020