Technology and gadgets are my passion! After spending most of my career in IT, I now spend my days reading tech news and blogging daily about what I find interesting. I try to transform the techspeak into something that ordinary non-tech folk can see a use for, and I just post about what I find really interesting that day.
My interests lean toward open source, green technology, security, privacy, amateur radio (ZS1OSS), alternative social networks, etc.
I blog daily (about 3 to 5 posts pd) on various social networks such as:
- Mastodon: Danie10
- X: https://x.com/GadgeteerZA
- Friendica: https://squeet.me/profile/danie10/
- Hubzilla: https://hub.vilarejo.pro.br/channel/gadgeteer
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gadgeteer.co.za
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gadgeteerza/
- WordPress (option to subscribe to e-mails): https://gadgeteer.co.za/blog/
- RSS feed: https://gadgeteer.co.za/category/uncategorized/feed/
- Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/9484
- Secure Scuttlebutt (P2P): @0Tv5f/opjv/m1ONAKl6S79HWbHdLaCtt/emdXl2MCO0=.ed25519
- Matrix Room (also bridged to my IRC channel): https://matrix.to/#/#gadgeteerza:libera.chat
- XMPP Chatroom: [email protected]
- XMPP Community Channel: https://mov.im/?community/news.movim.eu/gadgeteerza-tech-blog
- MeWe: https://mewe.com/join/tech__gadgets
- YOURLS is an open source self-hosted alternative to Bitly or TinyURL
- Casio made a tiny fully functional Ring Watch
- You can turn your non-smart TV into an Android TV with just a Raspberry Pi
- The Samsung SmartTag 2 is down to $15 for Black Friday — But In South Africa still at Full Price!
- First time a satellite operator and a wireless carrier have received FCC authorization for a Direct-To-Cell service
I also publish videos mostly about technology, open source and alternative social media at:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DanievanderMerwe
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA:4
- Peertube: https://video.hardlimit.com/c/gadgeteerza/videos
Although I've not coded for many years, I recently restarted again in 2021 with Python. Python has long been on my bucket list as a general programming language to learn, and I must say if you've learnt any other language previously, Python is not difficult to get going with. So as, and when, I need some utility to use, and it's not available elsewhere, I'll be doing that in Python. I started out with a GUI manager on LInux for Cloudflare WARP, and will see where I end up with Python.