Divan Visagie

As hinted at in my last post , I don't run Windows as an operating system on my home network.

So the subtitle makes this sound recent, but the summer I am referring to was actually last year (2025), I therefore don't remember exactly what set it off, but I had picked up a manuscript written by the original inventors of Unix, and in general was abs…

MCP servers are powerful tools but they have no power over how the model decides to use them.

Programming is older than code, but we keep talking as if they are the same thing.

For a long time, there has been a gap between "I have a problem" and "I can justify building software for this".

Divan is letting me write on his blog.

It's a common trope in web development to say, "I just use console.log," especially for those who started development outside the domain of paid-for IDEs.

In the time when I was toying with sentiment analysis in 2017, I came to a conclusion about AI driven systems as they applied to me as a Software Engineer who isn't a data scientist and doesn't run their own machine learning clusters: I am not the person…

While there are many options for using Swagger/OpenAPI with express some of them require that you use an entire framework, while others like to enforce strange structures that quite frankly feel like they interfere with your independant descisions way too…

Microservice architectures are popular these days, but while they provide certain benefits they also introduce new problems.

Let's say we are tasked with creating a RESTful API that will return a user object based on the user Id, e.g. http://myApi/user/123 will return the user with the ID 123.

There are two types of people, those who think Docker is an absolute game changer when it comes to web application development, and those who don't know what Docker is.

When working with traditional monolithic applications, you can very quickly become used to a certain style of debugging when something has gone wrong.

In it's simplest form.

Update: While this site is still clearly no longer medium based, I have moved on from Hugo and have instead gone for my own implementation of a Markdown -> HTML converter For a few years now my blog has primarily been on the Medium platform, and for good…

I think one of the most elegant things that Go does is output a single portable binary.

The idea with this article is to simply provide a quick tutorial on how to set up a simple Node.js project with nodemon for development reloading and of course unit tests.

When you build services for the web you want to make sure they don’t fall over completely when too many users hit your system all at one time.

Some time ago I wrote about my experience writing a small Desktop UI in Go using libui.

If you scroll through your Twitter feed sometimes you may see a lot of negativity or tweets that make you ask yourself “Did this person read this before they posted?”.

I started my career as a Software Developer building iOS apps.

Don’t reinvent the wheel!

When you get started with Scala one of the first things you are going to come across is sbt, Scala’s very own build tool.

This will be part one in a series where I (a software developer) share my experiences in an attempt to build a fully wireless robot.

So you want to run a node server as a production server on windows, but IIS is running on the machine and taking up port 80.

Running node alongside Apache takes little effort, all it requires is a reverse proxy, which is way less of an effort to set up in Apache than it is in IIS and a way to run your node process as a service.

Wire an LED to pin 13 on the Arduino and plug the Arduino into your development machine.

This tutorial will be broken up into 3 sections.

Prerequisites: You should be able to create a project and set up a UITableViewController and table view in the storyboard.

This tutorial assumes you already know whats going on when it comes to creating a project and populating a UITableViewController's table with some data.

This is just a quick tip on how to determine what device the user is running, this can be useful if you are writing an app for both iPhone and iPad and want to implement a feature in one device but not the other: Code snippet: Another thing we can check f…

In Part 1 of Creating a hidden menu in iOS I showed how to add gestures to handle the hide/reveal functionality.

In this tutorial we will create an iPhone app with a hidden menu system using animations and gestures.We start off by creating a new single view project.

What really sets some iOS apps apart from the rest are the way they look , generally , a good look gives the impression that the app was well designed an should therefore work well.

Deprecated Time has moved on , IOS has moved forward to the point where this is no longer a supported way of doing things Connecting to a web service is a requirement for many iOS applications , especially in the enterprise.

One of the great things about developing for iOS in Objective-C is the amount of freely available MIT licensed libraries out there .While some just make your life easier so that you don't have to re-invent the wheel,others like FMDB are almost essential to

Xcode uses about as much screen real estate as Queen Elizabeth II and one of it's largest elements is the toolbar.

In this tutorial I will create a simple iPhone app to demonstrate how one would create a UIPickerView with custom contents.

With all the cool science thats been going around I decided that it would be fun to take some of the things I remember from High School physics and turn it into code.

When developing in iOS you need to know one very important thing; where to start.There are many secrets to Here I will be trying my very hardest to give you that information by listing things you need to know and great places to find the information you m…