Vishen Gounden
@vishen.bsky.social
Husband 👩🏽❤️👨🏽; Father 👦🏾; Software Engineer 💻;
Writes @ https://vishen.co.za
Writes @ https://vishen.co.za
Building a new app, ParenTime, and going all-in on #AWS! ☁️ Check out my planned cloud architecture using Lambda, Cognito, and RDS. A bit about the 'why' and the trade-offs.
vishen.co.za/blog/app-upd...
#CloudNative #DevOps
vishen.co.za/blog/app-upd...
#CloudNative #DevOps
App Build Update: Infrastructure | Vishen Gounden
A short update on the planned infrastructure for ParenTime - my app build
vishen.co.za
September 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Building a new app, ParenTime, and going all-in on #AWS! ☁️ Check out my planned cloud architecture using Lambda, Cognito, and RDS. A bit about the 'why' and the trade-offs.
vishen.co.za/blog/app-upd...
#CloudNative #DevOps
vishen.co.za/blog/app-upd...
#CloudNative #DevOps
Confused about the difference between an API and a Web API? You're not alone.
An API isn't just a web service! I wrote a quick explainer to demystify the terms and clarify why the distinction matters: vishen.co.za/blog/what-is...
#API #WebDev #Coding #SoftwareEngineering
An API isn't just a web service! I wrote a quick explainer to demystify the terms and clarify why the distinction matters: vishen.co.za/blog/what-is...
#API #WebDev #Coding #SoftwareEngineering
What is an API? | Vishen Gounden
The term API gets thrown around loosely in different contexts, and I wanted a useful resource to share with others to explain it - in my own way.
vishen.co.za
August 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Confused about the difference between an API and a Web API? You're not alone.
An API isn't just a web service! I wrote a quick explainer to demystify the terms and clarify why the distinction matters: vishen.co.za/blog/what-is...
#API #WebDev #Coding #SoftwareEngineering
An API isn't just a web service! I wrote a quick explainer to demystify the terms and clarify why the distinction matters: vishen.co.za/blog/what-is...
#API #WebDev #Coding #SoftwareEngineering
My take on "Crucial Conversations." This book offers powerful, practical tools for any tough talk. A must-read!
vishen.co.za/blog/crucial...
vishen.co.za/blog/crucial...
Thoughts on 'Crucial Conversations' | Vishen Gounden
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August 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My take on "Crucial Conversations." This book offers powerful, practical tools for any tough talk. A must-read!
vishen.co.za/blog/crucial...
vishen.co.za/blog/crucial...
Building ParenTime: A personalized app to simplify parenting for my family. Sharing my journey, tech stack, & ideas to help fellow parents. Read more about it here: vishen.co.za/blog/buildin...
Building my own 'app' | Vishen Gounden
Sharing a bit of my journey in a building an app for myself and my wife. This might help others aiming to build their own app, or find the app I'm building useful for themselves!
vishen.co.za
April 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Building ParenTime: A personalized app to simplify parenting for my family. Sharing my journey, tech stack, & ideas to help fellow parents. Read more about it here: vishen.co.za/blog/buildin...
Blogging has been a fun journey with lessons learned! 📝 Weekly posts felt rushed, so I'll switch to monthly deep dives. Excited to build an MVP app for my son & explore AWS! 🌟
Lessons learnt after a few months of posting | Vishen Gounden
A dive into tools and techniques I've adopted to help improve my delegation skills for a variety of tasks and duties at a varying level of complexity - from simple administrative work to advanced…
vishen.co.za
April 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Blogging has been a fun journey with lessons learned! 📝 Weekly posts felt rushed, so I'll switch to monthly deep dives. Excited to build an MVP app for my son & explore AWS! 🌟
Delegation is tough, especially in knowledge work. How do you set clear expectations? I share practical techniques to improve delegation and empower teams. Read more:
Delegation using standards, systems and templates | Vishen Gounden
A dive into tools and techniques I've adopted to help improve my delegation skills for a variety of tasks and duties at a varying level of complexity - from simple administrative work to advanced…
vishen.co.za
March 31, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Delegation is tough, especially in knowledge work. How do you set clear expectations? I share practical techniques to improve delegation and empower teams. Read more:
After 10+ years, it’s time for a new laptop! 💻 MacBook Pro vs. Windows gaming laptop—what’s the best choice for dev, creative work & gaming? Read my thoughts here: vishen.co.za/blog/buying-... 🎮🚀
Buying a personal laptop | Vishen Gounden
Read through my thoughts around what I want from a new personal laptop and how I am going about making my decision. Hopefully it may help you with a similar one!
vishen.co.za
March 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
After 10+ years, it’s time for a new laptop! 💻 MacBook Pro vs. Windows gaming laptop—what’s the best choice for dev, creative work & gaming? Read my thoughts here: vishen.co.za/blog/buying-... 🎮🚀
Flaky tests? The culprit might be JavaScript’s RegExp with the "g" flag! It’s stateful & can lead to unexpected failures. Avoid the trap—learn from my experiences in my latest blog post! 🔍👇
🔗 buff.ly/yaVXees #JavaScript #Testing #Regex
🔗 buff.ly/yaVXees #JavaScript #Testing #Regex
JavaScript Tip - RegEx Instances Hold State | Vishen Gounden
A lesson learnt in JavaScript and state where you least expect it - RegEx.
buff.ly
March 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Flaky tests? The culprit might be JavaScript’s RegExp with the "g" flag! It’s stateful & can lead to unexpected failures. Avoid the trap—learn from my experiences in my latest blog post! 🔍👇
🔗 buff.ly/yaVXees #JavaScript #Testing #Regex
🔗 buff.ly/yaVXees #JavaScript #Testing #Regex
Cookies in server-to-server calls? Bad idea—but sometimes unavoidable. I ran into this with .NET’s HttpClient & had to disable automatic cookies. Lessons learned: buff.ly/H6M6zfY #dotnet #webdev
On Cookies and the .NET HttpClient | Vishen Gounden
I hope you never have to experience this, but in case you... Here's how you can use cookies to communicate in a server to server set up - but ONLY if you absolutely must!
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Cookies in server-to-server calls? Bad idea—but sometimes unavoidable. I ran into this with .NET’s HttpClient & had to disable automatic cookies. Lessons learned: buff.ly/H6M6zfY #dotnet #webdev
Would anyone be interested in a free app that helps craft routines for child care and child activities?
If interested, join the waitlist here: parentime.co.za
If not, or have some ideas of what would be useful, do share!
If interested, join the waitlist here: parentime.co.za
If not, or have some ideas of what would be useful, do share!
ParenTime - Simplify Parenting, Reclaim Your Time
parentime.co.za
March 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Would anyone be interested in a free app that helps craft routines for child care and child activities?
If interested, join the waitlist here: parentime.co.za
If not, or have some ideas of what would be useful, do share!
If interested, join the waitlist here: parentime.co.za
If not, or have some ideas of what would be useful, do share!
Are you building the right thing? Functional suitability—completeness, correctness, appropriateness—ensures software truly meets user needs. Without users, even great code is pointless. #SoftwareQuality Read more:
Building the right thing - Functional Suitability in Software Quality | Vishen Gounden
We explore functional suitability as we delve into the quality characteristics in this instalment of my series on software quality. It's important to build software right, but arguably its more…
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Are you building the right thing? Functional suitability—completeness, correctness, appropriateness—ensures software truly meets user needs. Without users, even great code is pointless. #SoftwareQuality Read more:
What is quality in software, and how do we measure it? ISO/IEC 25010 offers a framework, but applying it isn’t always easy. I’m kicking off a series exploring software quality—what it means, why it matters, and how to measure it. Read more: https://buff.ly/4k7Gyia #SoftwareQuality
Software Quality - A rambling preamble | Vishen Gounden
Software quality is crucial but often overlooked in favor of new features, leading to long-term costs and technical debt. The ISO/IEC 25010 model provides a framework for evaluating quality, covering…
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February 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
What is quality in software, and how do we measure it? ISO/IEC 25010 offers a framework, but applying it isn’t always easy. I’m kicking off a series exploring software quality—what it means, why it matters, and how to measure it. Read more: https://buff.ly/4k7Gyia #SoftwareQuality
Setting goals is easy. Achieving them? Not so much.
✅ Be specific—break big goals into steps.
✅ Time-box them—shorter cycles keep you on track.
✅ Embrace failure—growth comes from pushing limits.
I shared my approach here: https://buff.ly/41ft9No
How do you set goals?
✅ Be specific—break big goals into steps.
✅ Time-box them—shorter cycles keep you on track.
✅ Embrace failure—growth comes from pushing limits.
I shared my approach here: https://buff.ly/41ft9No
How do you set goals?
Setting effective goals | Vishen Gounden
Setting good goals is difficult! In this post I share techniques I use to help me set goals for myself, as well as guide others on their own goal setting endeavours. I've developed these approaches…
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February 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Setting goals is easy. Achieving them? Not so much.
✅ Be specific—break big goals into steps.
✅ Time-box them—shorter cycles keep you on track.
✅ Embrace failure—growth comes from pushing limits.
I shared my approach here: https://buff.ly/41ft9No
How do you set goals?
✅ Be specific—break big goals into steps.
✅ Time-box them—shorter cycles keep you on track.
✅ Embrace failure—growth comes from pushing limits.
I shared my approach here: https://buff.ly/41ft9No
How do you set goals?
Ever wondered what "personal growth" truly means? 🤔
I wrote a bit on my take of exploring how to measure genuine self-improvement by comparing yourself to your past self and focusing on what you can control.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/4aRhfg8
#PersonalGrowth #Mindset
I wrote a bit on my take of exploring how to measure genuine self-improvement by comparing yourself to your past self and focusing on what you can control.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/4aRhfg8
#PersonalGrowth #Mindset
On growth, comparisons and the illusion of control | Vishen Gounden
Many people cite "growth" as a major reason to take a job or work on a new project - but what exactly is this growth? And, should you take the job or complete the project, how do we know we've grown?…
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February 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Ever wondered what "personal growth" truly means? 🤔
I wrote a bit on my take of exploring how to measure genuine self-improvement by comparing yourself to your past self and focusing on what you can control.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/4aRhfg8
#PersonalGrowth #Mindset
I wrote a bit on my take of exploring how to measure genuine self-improvement by comparing yourself to your past self and focusing on what you can control.
Read more here: https://buff.ly/4aRhfg8
#PersonalGrowth #Mindset
I've recently started writing again, for personal development, creating a knowledge base for myself, and to reach more people who can hopefully benefit from knowledge I am sharing! Read more here: https://buff.ly/40CX94o #writing #tech #software #personaldevelopment
What's powering this blog | Vishen Gounden
What better way to kick off this blog than with by describing how I built it! I share the technology used and approach to identifying content to share in this post.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've recently started writing again, for personal development, creating a knowledge base for myself, and to reach more people who can hopefully benefit from knowledge I am sharing! Read more here: https://buff.ly/40CX94o #writing #tech #software #personaldevelopment
Looking to buy a laptop in 2025 (dev and creative efforts. Would you
1. MacBook Pro
2. x86 based Windows machine
3. Wait and see how AMD Strix Halo or possible APU from Nvidia
?
1. MacBook Pro
2. x86 based Windows machine
3. Wait and see how AMD Strix Halo or possible APU from Nvidia
?
January 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Looking to buy a laptop in 2025 (dev and creative efforts. Would you
1. MacBook Pro
2. x86 based Windows machine
3. Wait and see how AMD Strix Halo or possible APU from Nvidia
?
1. MacBook Pro
2. x86 based Windows machine
3. Wait and see how AMD Strix Halo or possible APU from Nvidia
?