How I Built LearnGOAT - A Free Maths Worksheet Generator
Ever found yourself thinking "there must be a better way"? That's exactly what happened when I was buying yet another maths practice book for my kids. As th...
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The TypeScript Configuration Trap
Ever had that moment where you spend time carefully configuring TypeScript, only to discover your build process has been cheerfully ignoring most of your se...
LSP Docker mode with multiple clients
LSP Docker is a fantastic extension if you need to make use of build containers for development. It creates LSP-mode clients in Emacs that allow a language ...
uint64 encoded in Protobuf bytes looks wrong
Today as I was trying to debug an issue, I had to interpret a Protobuf message that happened to have a uint64 in it. I only had access to the packet capture...
HTTPS with custom domains on Azure CDN
My blog is written in Jekyll. Simply put, Jekyll takes documents written in Markdown (similar to what you could use to write README files in a Git repositor...
Starting a new role
As of the 12th of June and after nearly four years, I'm no longer working at Ocado. At Ocado I had the opportunity to work with a number of amazing people a...
Blogging with org-mode!
I've been meaning to come back to blogging more frequently, but the whole set up that the blog requires was putting me off.
Making the (sad) case for a hard Brexit
It’s not very frequently that I write about politics in this blog. It’s not very frequently that I write about anything really, but here’s an attempt to chan...
Clojure: beware of the partial
At some point in time while using Liberator to build semi-RESTful APIs, I found myself in a pickle. Essentially, the Liberator library allows you to build an...
Home Automation with Clojure (part 1)
Those who know me, know that I like simplifying things. Tasks that are repetitive quickly become chores which nobody wants to do. That’s probably one of the ...
New Year’s Resolution: Blog more!
Admittedly I’m not the most avid blogger there is. Nonetheless, I keep this blog up and running just for the sake of it. This blog has been alive since 2008 ...
Why I started using emacs (and why you shouldn’t)
In what feels like a long time ago, I – as the curious software engineer that I am – began a journey. I had decided to try vim (“whaR...
Stuck at “Preparing your Desktop” After Migrating Windows Partition to SSD?
Recently at work I helped a colleague migrating his laptop from a HDD to an SSD. He was dual-booting his machine with Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and after skil...
Disable power management for the 8188eu driver in Raspbian
Many WIFI USB dongles out there rely on the 8188eu driver for support under Linux. In fact, in a previous post I covered how to compile a 8188eu driver for ...
[Photo] Jupiter and its 4 largest moons
As some of you may know, I have recently taken up a new hobby. I started with (very) amateur astronomy. Now while the Dutch skies are not the best for ast...
Wat is alcohol ketonatus? (What is alcohol ketonatus?)
In het Nederlands: een simpel en een-zin antwoord is alcohol ketonatus is alcohol die door gebruik van een ketone (meestal is butanon in Nederland gebruik...
How to see the International Space Station (ISS)
Last weekend me and my wife were down in Eindhoven in the south of what was a very sunny and warm Netherlands. While visiting a friend down there we disco...
[Project] How to easily monitor your plants’ soil humidity
You came here to learn about soil humidity monitoring, right?
How to get the TP-Link TL-WN725N working on Raspberry Pi
Recently I bought two TP-Link TL-WN725N adapters off Amazon. They’re cheap and according to the RPi peripherals list [here], are supposed to work we...
Chronopost Portugal? Serviço enganador…
This post will, extraordinarily, be in Portuguese as it is a complaint and a warning towards a Portuguese courier company which is indulging in false adve...