城 – The Castle the Dragon Lives In.
A forgotten Dell Laptop. A nearly new SSD. A small switch that cost less than dinner. This is the story of how stewardship turned scraps into a server, and built the castle the dragon lives in.
// Rock Solid Code · 1 Corinthians 10:4
Coding Jesus into
everyday life.
Faith-integrated writing on software, craft, and the discipline of building things that matter, because whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as working for the Lord. — Colossians 3:23
// What is this place?
Coding Jesus into everyday life.
Life is tough. Tech is tougher. So pull up a chair, pour a coffee, and settle in. because this is a place where followers of Jesus in the software and tech industry can breathe, reflect, and grow together.
Here we explore topics, share life, and learn from each other. The words of Jesus are hard-coded into our veins, and so we use our work, our craft, and our everyday moments to share Him with a world that might never otherwise encounter Him. So let's relax, talk over coffee and Scripture, with some coding sprinkled in.
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Jesus, First and Always
Everything here starts and ends with Jesus. Not as a theme or a brand, but as the living foundation we actually build our lives on. He is the Rock, and that shapes how we think, how we work, and what we write about.
John 14:6
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Tech as a Mission Field
The software industry is full of brilliant people who may never walk through a church door. We believe that how we show up at work, with integrity, excellence, and genuine care, is one of the most powerful ways to reflect Christ to the world.
Col 3:23 · 1 Peter 4:10
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Life, Coffee & Community
Faith isn't just for Sundays. We talk about the real stuff: burnout, doubt, imposter syndrome, and what it looks like to follow Jesus through deadlines and debugging sessions. You're not alone in this.
Heb 10:24–25
"He is the rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just."
— Deuteronomy 32:4
// Our foundation
What do we at
Rock Solid Code believe?
We believe that our skills in the tech industry, and everything we build with them, are an opportunity to serve God. Not just a career, not just a paycheck, but a calling.
We see technology as a mission field, where people who may never walk through a church door can encounter the character of Christ through how we work and what we build. We trust that the Bible is the living word of God, our foundation for every commit, every project, every day.
Read our full statement here
// The person behind the posts
Riaan Slabbert
Junior Software Developer and IT Technician with hands-on experience building web and Android applications. Skilled with APIs, AI tools, and deployment environments, picking up real industry experience one project at a time.
Beyond the screen I play guitar, love being out in nature, and genuinely love people and the connections we build. That is exactly why I started writing here. Every skill is a gift, and this blog is how I give it back.
More about me// Latest writing
Fresh from the keyboard
I Was Made to Create. So I Built a Dragon. 竜
I wanted to build the next ChatGPT. What I built instead was a dragon, and somewhere in the debugging and the failures, I found out why God gave me these skills in the first place.
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"He is the rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just."
— DEUTERONOMY 32:4