Rian van der Merwe

This is my now page ↗. It was last updated on April 27, 2024.

What I’m working on

I am ramping up as a Director of Product at Cloudflare, where I support the Data Infrastructure team.
I am still writing on Elezea. I’ll never stop tinkering (it’s been 15 years!), but I’m happy (for the moment) with the setup—especially RSS feeds feeding into Buttondown to auto-generate and send a weekly email of new posts.
I hit a bit of a wall with a side project for music recommendations and listening history. It’s currently hosted on Netlify, but I want to move it to Cloudflare Pages (obviously). This is proving a little bit beyond my dev skills, so it’s slow going.

I’m ramping up in my new role so I’ve been thinking about onboarding a lot. I currently have a lot of thoughts on system diagrams.
I’m also thinking about hiring and interviewing quite a bit.

I enjoyed Civil War way more than I thought I would. Max Read has a great take on the movie. And this is a good interview with the Director.