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Engineer at Equal Experts. From Martinique (French Caribbean), now based in Johannesburg (South Africa). I like to learn things, build stuff and help others. Dad to 2 wonderful kids.
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submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I see more and more #EVs in Johannesburg. I have spotted a few BYDs, the charging stations at my local shopping mall are more often than not busy with cars charging and just this morning there were 3 Vapour Grey #EX30 (mine included) stopped next to each other at a traffic light in Houghton.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is quite an insightful read if you use dbt: www.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-lab.... SDF's compiler tool chain surely has interesting properties

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

It’s back to work week in Joburg. Traffic is going to get worse and the roads near me are filled with potholes. Many traffic lights are out of order because of rain damage.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Bonne année!!! Happy new year!!! To a great 2025!!!!

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I’m looking for a co-founder and funding to scale up The Progress Playbook, which I think has a lot of potential (yes I’m biased…) If you’re interested, please email me at [email protected] Happy holidays!

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

From 500k BEVs in 2014 to 50M in 2024, that’s a staggering 100x growth in a decade! 🚀⚡ In case anyone still doubts it, the electric revolution is here, driven by innovation, affordability, & the shift to sustainability. No matter how hard legacy tries, they can't stop the tide of change. 🔋 #EVs #BEV

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Electrek’s EV of 2024: The Volvo EX30

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Magician: Check your left pants pocket

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

As someone who works in tech, I am finding Harari’s Nexus book to be quite insightful. I am not a big fan of Gen AI for everything, but he brings very interesting points about AI that I was not aware of. Guard rails are so crucial

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of new accounts are joining Bluesky, and many of them are scammers and trolls. If we want to keep this place from turning into Twitter, remember: don’t engage with trolls…just block them. PASS IT ON

submitted 88 days ago • 11 comments

Time to wrap up with work for 2024. Looking back, we did quite cool things in my team. Personally did a lot of internal presentations at John Lewis, presented at one conference in Cape Town and a Meetup in Joburg. Lots of SQL, dbt, Python, Airflow and Tableau to keep me busy #dataengineering

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

We are stuck in Mauritius for a little bit longer courtesy of the refuelling issues at OR Tambo back in Joburg.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty fascinating that in The Netherlands growth at Volvo is simply astonishing, all thanks to #EX30 #alwaysbecharging

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

South African Airways is using Varnish with is a very good and optimised caching solution. However this morning's online check-in is giving me some guru meditation vibes.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve made the crucial mistake of going to Sandton City while the Black Fridays specials are still on and people just got paid. I was there early and so was the entire province. It was sooooo busy. Never seen so many people on my life.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

With a warm climate and relaxed driving you can get quite far on a full charge. Here is my EV at 90% charge. People worry range as if they drive Joburg to Durban everyday. Some do but most don’t. Most daily trips are much shorter than that.

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

#FoxOfTheDay 🦊 A delightful image of Fox cubs holding onto each other’s tails. 💚 📸 Credit: Tavistock Photo. #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Foxes

submitted 100 days ago • 140 comments

South Africa has very high solar pv power potential. Yesterday my panels were blasting just under 6kWp. So I am glad to see things like this happening: mybroadband.co.za/news/motorin... #ev #ex30 I also like the pic of the cute Volvo wrapped in the Sweedish flag.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

I have now driven my EV (Volvo #ex30) for over 4000 kms. All my recharges so far have been solar powered (home, Morningside shopping centre, Sun City resort). And all my charging away from home has been free.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Make it a PURPLE 💜 Black Friday by buying your KotlinConf regular and workshop tickets with some really nice discounts! Only valid Thursday 28th, Friday 29th November! kotlinconf.com

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

dbt incremental models can be quite useful for optimisation. However, time-based incremental models can cause hard to debug issues when data arrives late or in an incorrect order. More often than not, I recommend full refresh models as they are quite a bit more predictable #dataengineering #dbt

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

For row-level data quality checks with dbt this is actually pretty good: github.com/AxelThevenot...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

At Equal Experts, we practice You Build It, You Run it www.equalexperts.com/our-services.... This week, I am running the front door for my team's data products. I get to troubleshoot production issues, improve our monitoring & alerting if necessary and answer any questions our data consumers have.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

kotlin.jar

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

mybroadband.co.za/news/motorin... staggering numbers in this massive solar powered charging station. Looking forward to trying it when it is operational.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I had high hopes for the Sun Exchange (crowdsourced investment in green energy). However it turned out to be a bad investment after the Solar panels that I had contributed to were sold on to Jaltech with a rather bad return.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

I warned you there'd be dad jokes.

submitted 113 days ago • 316 comments

Looks like a great place for a nap

submitted 113 days ago • 342 comments

The big kettle aka my Volvo #ex30 is charging with the Joburg sun. Slow but steady.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Alien Romulus was great except for that really really terrible de-aged digital Ian Holm cameo.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning, Loves ♥️

submitted 114 days ago • 247 comments

A picture I took of a reflection the other day. #photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography

submitted 113 days ago • 494 comments

Wordle 1,246 5/6* 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Making sharing Wordle results great again

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments