Hello, I'm Fanie

As a passionate technologist and Microsoft MVP, I love to share knowledge wherever I go, but also learn in the process. My time is spent educating others in writing code, blogs and books, as well as creating content on YouTube and Twitch. Apart from speaking at meetups and conferences around the world, I also help to organize them. In my professional career I am an independent architect with the focus on the web and cloud, so hire me for your project.

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The perils of over-engineering in code

In the realm of software development, finding the perfect balance between simplicity and complexity is a constant challenge. While leveraging advanced techniques and patterns can be beneficial, over-engineering can lead to code that is convoluted, difficult to maintain, and potentially inefficient. After coming across many codebases in my career I

QBASIC meets Azure Functions

Before we continue, I'd like to make a clear disclaimer: This is a bad idea, and under no circumstances would you want to run a program built with a thirty-one year old legacy programming language in production. Wait, what about JavaScript, which is around for over twenty-seven years and is

Creating real-time wake-words to trigger overlays in OBS

With the rise of the personal assistants, it is getting easier to build bots that are voice activated. So it got me thinking; why not build something similar for my own live stream, that will trigger a GIF overlay and/or play a funky jingle when a pre-defined trigger word

A handy .NET global tool to deploy resources to Azure

If you haven't used the Azure CLI yet, download it now, it is great for deploying Azure resources from the command line. For example, to create a resource group named awesomesauce in the West Europe data-center location, simply just execute: az group create --location westeurope --rg-name awesomesauce It was also

Move ASP.NET Core to Azure Functions in 4 steps

Don't get me wrong, ASP.NET Core is awesome. I even wrote a book on it, and one should be using it for building any kind of cloud-first web applications. Azure Functions, on the other hand; is a fairly new offering from Microsoft Azure, and is focussing more on the

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