Michael van Niekerk 🦀 ☕️ ⚛

Programs all the stacks.
Rust, Java, React Native biased.
Maker of wares that are soft and wares that are hard.

Comments and opinions are that of my own.

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2026-04-12 07:53:41 GMT

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@nprofile…mcwl Tauri + React Native Web; React Native + https://github.com/jhugman/uniffi-bindgen-react-native
= Reuse same Rust library
= share RN components for UI
= Target all desktops and mobiles
My go-to atm.

2026-02-27 10:11:25 GMT

On #southafrican resourcefulness and border smuggling.
#southafrica #mozambique #funny
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/116/142/051/000/181/146/original/d725a54af10d6b2a.mp4

2025-12-13 14:30:24 GMT

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@nprofile…vkq7 LOL you said moist

2025-08-09 11:51:02 GMT

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@nprofile…7wld The hadida in the end is truly the chef's kiss.

2025-06-20 16:09:30 GMT

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@nprofile…7wld Peace and love to your family.
And stuff cancer with a cactus sideways.

2025-04-02 07:50:49 GMT

Right, I've tested Gemini 2.5 and Cloudflare Workers / KV (using Rust). And it is stunning.
Context: My wife has terrariums. They need constant maintenance (sifting, cleaning). She needs to quickly check when and for what reason something was last processed.
I've prompted Gemini to create me a Cloudflare worker, paired with an Expo (React Native) app that scans QR codes. These QR codes have a GUID, and the GUID correlates to the last update stored on Cloudflare KV.
It proceeded giving me code with command line commands to create and deploy the Workers and Expo apps.
Surprise - the commands didn't work. But they were close.
Also surprise - the code didn't compile. But they were close.
For the issues - with me knowing what's going on - I could quickly fix what was missing.
45 minutes later, I've got something running and working correctly. Coding this by hand would've maybe taken half a day otherwise.
#ai #llm #gemini #cloudflare #rustlang

2025-03-02 17:27:03 GMT

Dear Fedi
In light of Firefox being dead to me now, are there any Gecko browsers that:
1. Have multi-account containers that don't share data between them?
2. Have sync with an iOS browser (passwords especially)
3. Can import the Firefox bookmarks and passwords as is?
#firefox #mozilla

2025-02-13 08:49:04 GMT

Postman can die. #enshittification
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/995/712/187/071/325/original/17f6f7c28c8650ba.png

2024-11-08 11:39:30 GMT

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@npub1dng…9l6c
Something is terribly off though.
You knew MAGA is going to vote MAGA, come hell or high water.
It is the 4 yearly circus that is on everyone's mind (cars, posts, TVs, front porches, gates). Thus, there's no ignorance to be pleaded here.
And, if you as a society is so polarised / galvanised, and Trump's first term is as terrible as everyone is making it out to be, the answer is to...
stay away?
All 13 million of you?
After you've voted in droves to get Trump out in the first place?
Really puzzling.
Please make it make sense. It doesn't for me.

2024-11-08 11:05:11 GMT

13 million lost votes - that's the minus on Harris vs Biden vote counts.
The difference between Biden and Obama votes are 12 million.
The amount of people that voted Trump stayed the same.
Few questions/observations
1. Where did these millions of people go? Given demographics ito children vs adults vs voting split, this equates to 30 000 000+ no longer being around.
2. Did they stay away?
3. If they did, why did they stay away? They didn't for Hillary. So it can't be for gender. They_possibly_did for Obama, so it could have been due to racism.
4. Or was it because she was such a bad candidate? She only got 2% on her own primaries so, maybe?
5. Where the voters there in the first place? Is there somehow credibility to a vote steal?
This is weird. You can't pull off such a huge (in the millions) fraud so I doubt that is the case.
And I doubt that so many people got to vote Biden as a rebuke to the 4 years of Trump, just to stay away for another term of Trump?
Puzzling.

2024-10-25 09:51:34 GMT

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2024-07-07 09:13:45 GMT

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@npub1p45…89jz It is a curl (spiral form) to localhost

2024-02-15 09:22:30 GMT

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@npub1eqg…fncn
Don't think I agree with this? Should one not adopt the standards of the platform you're developing for?
Same with Windows users, there's the AppData folder to put things in.
Opening up c:\Users\$user and seeing a bunch of dot directories is not great.

2023-11-15 07:02:37 GMT

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@npub1hg2…k372 $work uses Google Meet.
In browser FTW

2023-10-22 04:48:32 GMT

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@npub1ptm…2xku @npub1yta…ayt9 @npub129g…4kwg if only, right...

2023-08-29 07:20:44 GMT

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@npub129g…4kwg That's incidentally the same argument someone gave me for putting goto in his C code... Just a quick set and break from the most inner loop...

2023-08-29 04:18:53 GMT

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@npub129g…4kwg Like a C goto but actually not something that's going to eat your children.

2023-08-21 04:33:42 GMT

Seems like the #serde #rustlang situation turned back to sanity.
The mystery meat binary has been removed.
https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.184