Schalk van Dyk

Schalk van Dyk 🚀 Web Designer & Developer Crafting Conversion-Driven Solutions: Code with Purpose, Design with Impact, and Market with Precision.

01/06/2026

Monday mayhem came back to haunt me....
What I thought was sorted wasn't really sorted....
Hopefully, now it is! Let's see. I'll know at 15h30

I've had one or two flat tires this week 🛞😅, but they didn't stop me. They may have slowed me down, but they never took ...
30/05/2026

I've had one or two flat tires this week 🛞😅, but they didn't stop me. They may have slowed me down, but they never took me off the road. 💪🚗

Every challenge brought a solution, every setback taught a lesson, and every obstacle became an opportunity to keep moving forward. 🔧✨

The journey isn't about avoiding problems—it's about finding a way through them. Onward and upward! 🚀🙌

27/05/2026

Lately, it feels like there just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything that’s important. Still, Monday mayhem is officially behind me… and honestly, conquering that beast feels like a win. 💪🤓

Update from the trenches 🚨:I’ve fixed it.There were two issues causing the backup buildup.First, the cleanup logic was b...
26/05/2026

Update from the trenches 🚨:

I’ve fixed it.

There were two issues causing the backup buildup.

First, the cleanup logic was broken 🧠—the sort + delete step wasn’t reliably identifying the oldest backups, so nothing ever got removed. Every cron run just kept adding a new full backup.

Second, a /sys traversal issue caused inconsistent directory scanning, which meant the delete step sometimes didn’t even see the right folders.

Result:

Old backups weren’t selected correctly
Cleanup didn’t run properly
The script just kept stacking backups 📦

Fixes applied:

Rewrote sort/delete logic to correctly keep only the newest 4 backups 📁
Excluded /sys, /proc, and other virtual filesystems 🚫

After rerunning, rotation is working and old backups are being cleaned up as expected again 👍

Monday morning mayhem…So I’ve got this clever little cronjob script that backs up my ~/ folder every week. Nice and resp...
25/05/2026

Monday morning mayhem…

So I’ve got this clever little cronjob script that backs up my ~/ folder every week. Nice and responsible, right?

The script is supposed to:
✅ Create a new backup
✅ Delete the oldest backup
✅ Keep only the 4 most recent backups

Simple.

This morning my Ubuntu machine started wheezing like an asthmatic lawnmower. Disk space warning lights everywhere. I emptied the trash and still only had about 2GB free on a 500GB drive.

Naturally my first thought was:
“Which gremlin downloaded half the internet onto my machine?”

So I went full detective mode with a few terminal commands and started tracing the storage hog…

Turns out the culprit wasn’t movies, games, Docker, or forgotten ISOs.

Nope.

It was my own backup folder.

My “smart” automated backup script apparently decided that deleting old backups was optional behavior and has been hoarding weekly backups like a digital apocalypse prepper.

Current situation:

Backup folder: 378GB
Remaining free space: basically thoughts and prayers
Trust in automation: severely damaged

Time to pop the hood and see what worms are bloated inside this script… 🫠

Really appreciated all the feedback on the logo concepts I posted earlier 🙌The general consensus was pretty clear:people...
22/05/2026

Really appreciated all the feedback on the logo concepts I posted earlier 🙌

The general consensus was pretty clear:
people liked the core idea and icon of the blue themed icon, but the original version felt a bit too busy with too much going on.

So I went back, kept the main concept, and simplified it quite a bit.

This version feels cleaner, more focused, and a lot more aligned with the direction I want ReviewMeNow to take 🚀

Still refining things as I go, but I think this is a strong step forward 👇

🚀 I’m currently building ReviewMeNow — a lightweight platform for displaying Google reviews beautifully on websites.I’ve...
20/05/2026

🚀 I’m currently building ReviewMeNow — a lightweight platform for displaying Google reviews beautifully on websites.

I’ve started exploring logo ideas and branding concepts, and these are two of the directions so far 👇

Would love some honest feedback:

Which one works better?
Does it feel modern and tech-focused?
Does it clearly communicate reviews/testimonials?
What would you improve?

Still early in the process, so all feedback is welcome 🙌

15/05/2026

I’ve been thinking more about this project (displaying Google reviews on websites) today, and the more I break it down, the more I realise how important simplicity is going to be.

It’s easy to overcomplicate something like this, especially when you see how many existing solutions try to solve everything at once.

At its core, this should be simple: fetch reviews → store them → display them beautifully.

Everything else is just noise if that flow isn’t clean.

This is now officially in motion — I’ve secured the domain:

✅ reviewmenow.co.za

From here, I’m building it step by step. 🚀

14/05/2026

I’ve honestly had enough of expensive third-party widgets just to display Google and Facebook reviews on websites.

Most of them are overloaded with features I never use, while the monthly costs keep stacking up.

So I’ve decided to build my own solution using the Google Places API and a custom reviews system.

It’s definitely going to be a learning curve, but I’m looking forward to creating something cleaner, faster, more flexible, and far more cost effective in the long run.

If all goes well, this could turn into a really solid service for clients too 🚀

13/04/2026

Started debugging a file upload system today 🧩 — still early days, but already chasing down why drag & drop and file selection aren’t triggering 🖱️📁

Reminder to self: even “simple” uploads can get tricky fast when events or timing are off ⏱️💻

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