Schalk van Dyk

01/09/2026

18/06/2026

Figure out the puzzle.... and you'll see the bigger picture. Just sayin....

03/06/2026

You know what's frustrating?

Getting pulled away from a project to focus on other things, then coming back later and spending half the day trying to remember what on earth you were doing. 😅

Sometimes the biggest challenge isn't writing the code—it's getting back into the mindset you had when you wrote it.

It's all coming back to me now..... 😅

01/06/2026

🚀 Working on a fully optimized setup for SEO, social sharing, and performance.

This is part of improving how my website communicates with search engines and social platforms — making sure everything is structured properly for visibility, previews, and speed.

So far it includes:

SEO-focused title & meta description
Open Graph tags for better link previews (Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn)
Twitter Card support
Basic performance improvements (fonts & preconnects)
Clean structure for better indexing

Small code decisions, big impact over time. 💻⚡
Still refining, still improving.

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

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. 💪🤓

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 👍

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… 🫠

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 👇