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
Getting Started Stream Emojis - Build it yourself 🛠 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 💪.
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...
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
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
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
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,
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
Flutter Flutter CI Android App Bundle 📦 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
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
Getting Started Side Project Management 😅 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.
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.
Digital Ocean Digital Ocean lost SSH key 🔑 A solution to having lost your SSH key and no longer being able to log in to a Digital Ocean Droplet
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
Build an App and get Rich 💰 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
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 me😄. The steps I
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&
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
