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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With literally millions of blogs on the internet these days, I sometimes find it difficult to find quality reading anymore. Once in a while however, I stumble upon a web author whose words instantly captivate me. Two years ago I came across a very well written and informative essay by Paul Graham, titled How to Do What You Love. I was so impressed I read most of his essays on his website www.paulgraham.com in the next days. Mostly his essays are about startups, programming, and philosophy, but what makes them such good reading is the fact that all of his essays have some practical insights about life and human behaviour in general. Even if you don’t know much about software development, I’m sure you could still find his essays informative.
Tonight I went searching for some good reading again and I found 2 recent essays with some interesting thoughts, take look.
- Holding a Program in One’s Head – Paul Graham, August 2007
- Stuff – Paul Graham, July 2007