Herman Pretorius
Developer — HTML, CSS, JS, React, Python, Django. Built my first website in 1995.
Artist, music addict, runner, collector, gardener & behind schedule reader.
During the week you’ll find me at Quantec, busy doing some heavy lifting with David de Wet on the EasyData service. I am also the co-founder of Vinder Media Engineering where we focus on developing and supporting our OffCanvas service.
On the left is a mashup of one of my artworks, ‘Ysterklip’.
I used to write regularly here. I also posted some photos on Flickr before I started posting photos on Instagram.
I occasionally post on Twitter.
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I’ve been watching the fall of global markets over the last weeks on a cool tool provided by the Financial times. Go to markets.ft.com and click on the Equities – Macromaps: Markets image halfway down the page.
Just hearing or reading that the DOW has fallen by 8% or the Russian stock market has dropped 15% in one day doesn’t really give you an idea of what’s going on with global markets. Looking at this map, indicating in red (mostly) and green whether markets are falling or rising, gives you an instant snapshot of what’s happening to markets worldwide, and it doesn’t look good.