A very small, remote rural area in KZN, South Africa is where I was born. My parents named me Fanelesbonge (as my first name) which simply translates to “we must be grateful” and Nduduzo (as my middle name) meaning “comfort”.
Growing up I didn’t have access to computers, I mean I grew up in a rural area so there wasn’t much technology around me. I did watch my fair share of science fiction movies though, from which for the most part is where my ambitions of becoming a software engineer came from, well back then I had no idea what a software engineer was, I was only fueled by a burning desire to become a badass hacker!
My first real interaction with a computer, and my first “hello world” happened at the age of 18 when I moved to the city upon graduating high school. I’ve had a lot of personal battles which hindered my progress, don’t worry I won’t bore you with the details.
I think I had my lightbulb moment in late 2018 when I discovered Chris Sean and learned about “self taught developers”. Prior to that point it hadn’t occured to me that one could learn programming on their own, from online resources, so as you may assume by now, I learned HTML and how the internet works... and here we are.
Apart from taking things apart, writing software and designing user interfaces, I have a few other things I like doing.