Open Source & Developer Tooling
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Open source software that powers real production systems, and the macOS tooling that keeps high-output engineering teams productive.
Why TOGAF Fails Modern Enterprise Architecture
You can survive on it for a while. You definitely should not build a mission around it. 1. The analogy nobody asked for, but everyone deserves Potatoes are incredible. They are calorie dense, resilient, cheap, and historically important. They are also completely useless for space travel. No propulsion, no navigation, no life support, no guidance […]
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ESB vs Kafka: Why Microservices Are Replacing Enterprise Buses
1. Introduction The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) once promised to be the silver bullet for enterprise integration. Organizations invested millions in platforms like MuleSoft, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, and TIBCO BusinessWorks, believing they would solve all their integration challenges. Today, these same organizations are discovering that their ESB has become their biggest architectural […]
Read more →WordPress Site Crashed After Plugin Update: Fix It Fast
You updated a plugin five minutes ago. Maybe it was a security patch. Maybe you were trying a new caching layer. You clicked “Update Now,” saw the progress bar fill, got the green tick, and moved on with your day. Now the site is down. Not partially down. Not slow. Gone. A blank white page. […]
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WordPress Database & Media Cleanup Plugin: Free Guide
If you run a WordPress site for any length of time, the database quietly fills with junk. Post revisions stack up every time you hit Save. Drafts you abandoned years ago sit there. Spam comments accumulate. Transients expire but never get deleted. Orphaned metadata from plugins you uninstalled months ago quietly occupies table rows nobody […]
Read more →iPhone to MacBook Photo Transfer Script: Complete Guide
Annoying Apple never quite got around to making it easy to offload images from your iPhone to your Macbook. So below is a complete guide to automatically download photos and videos from your iPhone to your MacBook, with options to filter by pattern and date, and organize into folders by creation date. Prerequisites Install the […]
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Diagnose Your Linux Server in 60 Seconds: 6 CLI Tools
Imagine you have trauma and could figure out whats causing in under one minute. Obviously, the preference is an observability platform – but for my little wordpress site I don’t really have the budget. So I just use a few tools to isolate common issues. The idea behind this blog is to quickly isolate the […]
Read more →High Performance Timer Class: C++ Implementation Guide
Below is a sample class containing a high performance timer. Example usuage: }
Read more →Scan Your Local Network With Nikto and Nmap on macOS
Nikto is becoming one of my favourite tools. I like it because of its wide ranging use cases and its simplicity. So whats an example use case for Nikto? When I am bored right now and so I am going to hunt around my local network and see what I can find… Now lets pop […]
Read more →Monitor Top Disk Reads and Writes on macOS Script
The script below tracks disk usage of a macbook for 20 seconds and the shows the processes with the highest disk utilisations Example output:
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Browser curl Wrapper: Bypass Bot Filters, Load Test, and Defeat TLS Fingerprinting
WordPress Plugin Crashed Your Site: Restore From Backup Instead You updated a plugin five minutes ago. Maybe it was a security patch. Maybe you were trying a new caching layer. You clicked “Update Now,” saw the progress bar fill, got the green tick, and moved on with your day. Now the site is down. Not […]
Read more →WordPress Plugin Upgrades: Fix Stale File Issues
Most WordPress plugin developers eventually hit the same invisible wall: you ship an update, everything looks correct in the zip, the version number changes, the code is cleaner, and yet users report that the old JavaScript is still running. You check the file. It is updated. They clear cache. Still broken. Here is the uncomfortable […]
Read more →K8GB: Cloud Native GSLB for Kubernetes Explained
Today I am a happy bunny!!!! Yury Tsarev (a very clever dude) did a presentation to one of the Kubernetes co-founders Tim Hockin. The demo was one of absa banks opensource projects called K8GB (a cloud native GSLB for K8s): https://www.k8gb.io/ Why do I like K8GB? Because it uses a single CRD that integrates to […]
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