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Building up my LEGO collection, brick by brick
This page keeps track of my humble LEGO collection that I (passively) built up over the past decades.
I’m currently a whatever you want engineer at NOS, a public service broadcaster in the Netherlands. I received my bachelor’s degree in information science from Utrecht University, my master’s degree in information studies from the University of Amsterdam, and my master’s degree in software engineering from the Open University of the Netherlands.
My primary interests include software engineering, human factors, public transport, and academia.
This page keeps track of my humble LEGO collection that I (passively) built up over the past decades.
Final Fantasy VIII is a classic JRPG in which everyone (including its developer) makes plenty of questionable decisions.
Public service broadcasting has served us well in the 20th century. How can it keep serving us well (well) into the 21st century?
Three “fun” ways to throw off fellow PHP developers (and the “fractal of bad design” article isn’t one of them).
Flaky tests can cause CI builds to fail unexpectedly, and should be fixed as quickly as possible. This study shows why.
PHP has gained a lot of new language features over the years. Some of them are frankly a bit insane – but in a good way.
It’s easy to write Dockerfiles that work, but also to write Dockerfiles that suck. Here are some tips and tricks for writing better Dockerfiles.
Helm charts are re-usable packages for Kubernetes resources. They are easy to share and use, but this comes at a price.
I’m in the market for a tool that can help me analyse logs, traces, and metrics, and I was hoping that this paper could help me pick one.
Fonts in macOS look different from text that’s been rendered in Windows, mostly due to different philosophies about font rendering.
Spamming trains on Slack is likely to make some co-workers very happy and others very annoyed.
I built a completely useless Chrome extension that encourages people to complete their JIRA tickets (so I don’t have to).
Sharing is caring, but if you really care about sharing research you should probably do more than just share links to papers.
New live broadcasting technologies have transformed how news organisations work, in both good and bad ways.
How can an organisation best support Scrum teams? This paper proposes and validates a theory for effective Scrum teams.
I built a tool for the handful of people who listen to NPO radio stations, use Last.fm and know how to use the command line.
Hoe vind je je droombaan? In dit artikel vertel ik je hoe ik zelf (als softwareontwikkelaar) meestal te werk ga.
In deze drukke decembermaand even een artikel uit de oude doos: nepnieuwsartikeltjes in een studieverenigingsblad.
China is one of the world’s most populous countries, which means it also has some of the largest cities on the planet.
Depending on where you’re from, public transport in Hong Kong either offers a glimpse of the future or is stuck in the past.
Japan is good at inventing things, but in these five cases it was actually just good at adopting things.
LEGO City Undercover is an underrated action-adventure game where you get to play an undercover cop in a major city.
RollerCoaster Tycoon and its spiritual successors are timeless classics that never get old, unlike messages from tech recruiters.
This game is an absolute best-celler.
This blog provides a concise summary of the Scrum framework for anyone who needs a refresher or is just getting started.
I replaced my Huawei P30 Pro with a Google Pixel 7 Pro. Should you do the same with your smartphone? As usual, it depends.
A qualitative case study shows how we can design a smooth onboarding experience for agile software development teams.
I’ve published 250 articles on this website. All that work and what did it get me? Why did I do it? Let’s see if the page views justify it!
Another year, another retrospective, and also another excuse to discuss the past, the present, and the future.
Does it still make sense to write technical blogs when conversational AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can give faster and better answers?
What’s better than a crappy train travel planner that runs on my machine? A crappy train travel planner that runs on YOUR machine!
Yet another blog post where I create an unmaintainable mess using our favourite yet very inadequate programming language, SQL.
When all you have is a relational database, everything looks like a table. And you know what? It works! Sort of.