Kaleb Lape

I'm still looking for a @Ruby on Rails role. Projects I was counting on have fallen through. 🌎 I’m open to remote roles worldwide (have worked for multiple US based companies) or hybrid in the Western Cape. Immediate availability. Please share.

Remember this: we allowed this environment to take root. Think about it. “Master” is suddenly deemed offensive, so we’re told to replace it with “main.” Brendan Eich, a brilliant mind who helped shape the very internet we use today was canceled simply for donating to causes he believed in, causes aligned with his values. These are not just isolated events. They are markers of a culture where reason is abandoned, and offense, left unchecked, is weaponized into destructive energy aimed at the offender. I can’t help but feel both angry and deeply saddened. Because what we’re witnessing isn’t just debate, or even disagreement, it’s the erosion of the very freedom to hold convictions without fear of erasure. Take @dhh, for example. Yes, he’s outspoken. Yes, his convictions come across strong. But why should someone be expected to suppress who they are, to water down their principles just to avoid offending others? Isn’t that the opposite of authenticity, the opposite of truth? This is where modern society has taken a tragic, irreversible turn. We’ve allowed a moral landslide: where private fantasies spill into the public square, normalized and celebrated; where distortions of morality are nurtured as cultural norms; where reality itself is sidelined, and ordinary people are pressured to abandon their values, their identities, their traditions and to nod along with lies they don’t believe in. I’ve seen this play out before. Here in South Africa, so much of what is only now unfolding in the West was already tested here. We became the proving ground for an agenda that seeks to reshape not just systems, but souls. And I can tell you: it comes at a cost. The breakdown of families, communities, and truths that once held people together. And then there are the darker signs like the disturbingly frequent celebration of the assassination of one of the most reasonable, graceful, and sound-minded men of our time. Think about what it means when society cheers the silencing, even the killing, of its most thoughtful voices. That’s not progress. That’s collapse. We didn’t arrive here overnight. It’s been allowed, step by step, compromise by compromise. And unless we choose differently, unless we reclaim courage, reason, and truth; it will only get worse. We need to make a stand! "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12