South African gamer, developer, and professional overthinker.
I'm a software developer who also happens to spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about games, stories, design, anime, and why I keep doing this to myself.
I originally built Solacit around Twitch. Streaming was a huge part of the identity for a while, but I don't stream on a fixed schedule anymore. I still love gaming and creating; I just prefer making things when I actually have something I want to make.
The name comes from solace: comfort, relief, or a place to breathe when everything else gets loud.
Games have always been that for me. Sometimes it is a devastating narrative. Sometimes it is getting deleted in a shooter before I even understand what happened. Either way, there is something about disappearing into another world for a while that stuck.
Strong narratives, competitive shooters, co-op games and anything interesting enough to steal a weekend.
Front-end work, apps, APIs, web systems and figuring out how to make software behave after it very clearly decided not to.
Yes, there is a lot of it. It leaks into the aesthetic, the content, and probably more of my personality than is reasonable.
I like spaces that feel genuine, low-pressure and mutually supportive. The Sanctuary community is part of that.
I started streaming actively in 2024 and reached Twitch Affiliate. I'm proud of that chapter. I just don't want to keep treating “streamer” as the whole description when it isn't how I spend most of my time anymore.
Now Solacit is broader: gaming, development, short-form content, projects, community, and whatever genuinely catches my interest.