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Migration

Migrating to React from Durandal, slowly

A good enough solution to a difficult problem One of the client projects that I work on makes use of Durandal and KnockoutJS for their front end. This approach is quite old, so

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
5 min read
Getting Started

Stream Emojis - Build it yourself πŸ› 

I have been streaming the development of the Assistant for No Man's Sky for a while now, over on my Twitch channel which, you can find here. Please leave a follow if you enjoy this post πŸ’ͺ.

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
4 min read
Localisation

Localization / Localisation - Part 1

Localisation is one of the parts of designing software that can be very difficult and can be extremely costly when overlooked. As with most...

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
4 min read
Flutter

1 Year since launching the Assistant for No Man's Sky

1 year after the release of the Assistant for No Man's Sky app, called No Man's Sky Recipes back then, I take a look at how the app has changed and what I have learned in the process of building and maintaining the apps

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
6 min read
Performance

Static Site generation the hard way

How I used MVC Razor pages to generate a static website from dynamic data for the Assistant for No Man's Sky website

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
4 min read
Management

AssistantNMS Incident 2020-03-31

In this post I explain how a simple mistake took down a whole feature in the App, how I picked up there was an issue and how I resolved it

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read
Flutter

Intro to Flutter

I wrote this article on the internal blog platform for the company I work for Entelect. The article was chosen to be displayed on their website culture.entelect.co.za. Before publishing it,

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
3 min read
Flutter

Creating an App for No Man's Sky

I created the Assistant for No Man's Sky App. I have done 2 presentations to the company I work for, one in-front of around 10 people that I prepared for and the other

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
4 min read
Flutter

Flutter CI Android App Bundle πŸ“¦

Not too long ago, I received an email from Google Play, letting me know that from the 1st of August 2019, they would be requiring me to upload 64-bit versions of my apps

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read
Flutter

Flutter pub upgrade Issue [SOLVED]

How I encountered and solved a Flutter pub upgrade issue when trying to use Flutter Desktop on the master channel of Flutter

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read
Getting Started

Side Project Management πŸ˜…

I have (like many Software Engineers) have too many side projects. I think it is due to the intoxicating ☠ feeling of starting a project that has a lot of potential.

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read
Flutter

Flutter with CI / CD

Recently I started messing around with creating an app using Flutter. It seems to be really close to React Native in terms of how Components (in this case Widgets) are created and used.

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read
Digital Ocean

Digital Ocean lost SSH key πŸ”‘

A solution to having lost your SSH key and no longer being able to log in to a Digital Ocean Droplet

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read

KurtLourens.com Redesigned 🧩 (How it was made)

KurtLourens.com is my online CV website. I first created the site way back in Feb 2016. Looking back at, the site was poorly constructed as I had a very basic understanding of

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
4 min read

Build an App and get Rich πŸ’°

Something I have always found strange about being a Software Engineer, is that I am building a lot of other people's ideas/dreams.Most people think that it is easy to build an

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
4 min read

MathMax.io 'Hacking'

Its not Hacking like in the movies I didn’t break into anything or get around any security measures. I simply used code to do the heavy lifting for meπŸ˜„. The steps I

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read

An Intro to Web Scraping

Introduction Warframe is a game made by Digital Extremes which is a Free-To-Play, MMO, 3rd person, Space Ninja game with a heavy focus on grinding. One of the game's features is "Alerts&

  • Kurt Lourens
    Kurt Lourens
2 min read

My experience leaving University

The new world of programming At the end of 2016, when I was more ignorant than I am now, I thought that I had a good grasp of the I.T. realm. I

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    Kurt Lourens
2 min read
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