Why “Nigerian” scammers say they are from Nigeria
Dear Sir/Madam, I am a prince of the Nigerian royal family and I urgently need your help…
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When machine learning meets software engineering
Software engineering and machine learning are like oil and water. They don’t mix – unless you add an emulsifier of course.
Lessons learnt from preserving the Amsterdam Digital City online community
The Amsterdam Digital City was one of the first online social networks in the Netherlands. How should it be preserved for future generations?
“Heap, Heap, Array!” — Fun with functions (and other stuff)
Storing trees in a database table
Relational databases are very good at storing tabular data, but what if you need to store arbitrarily-sized trees?
How to deal with Dutch compound words when processing text
The Dutch have a lot of long words that aren’t in dictionaries. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re difficult (if you’re Dutch).
When and how to JOIN a table with itself
Relational databases make it very easy to join data from different tables, but did you know you can also JOIN data within the same table?
Living the Pipe Dream — 2022 is the year of the Linux desktop (but mostly servers)
Deploying apps on OpenShift: a stupid comparison between PHP, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and GraalVM
Spoiler alert: they’re not the same.
How do you use htop in Linux?
The htop utility lets you view and manage running processes from a terminal. But how do you use it?
How to fix MySQL Workbench 8 for Mac
MySQL Workbench 8 contains a bug that prevents it from starting on Macs. Don’t worry: it’s easy to fix!
Flat Earth — It’s all downhill from here
Easter eggs on Chuniversiteit.nl
Easter is long gone, but that doesn’t mean everyone has found all the easter eggs on this website. Here’s a cheat sheet!
Spicy papers with a grain of salt, tl;dr edition
I spend a lot of time reading papers. I spend even more time summarising them. Now I made oversimplified summaries of those summaries.
阻住地球轉: Please move aside!
This month’s side project takes passive-aggressiveness against life’s daily obstacles to a whole new level.
The Toilet Paper — Spicy papers with a grain of salt
How many spaces should you indent your code?
None, because tabs are better than spaces! Joking aside, it appears that the exact number doesn’t matter that much.
Everything that management needs to know about technical debt
Developers often complain about technical debt, but how much does it really hurt the business? According to this study it’s *a lot*.
Neurotic software developers have a higher risk of burnout
Some personality types are more susceptible to burnout. This study shows that software developers are no exception to that rule.
Chuniversiteitschrift — This website uses a .nl top-level domain for a reason
Een dag in het leven van een ✨ backend engineer bij NOS Digitale Media ✨
Hoe is het om als backend engineer verantwoordelijk te zijn voor één van de meest bezochte nieuwsplatformen van Nederland?
2 BA Master? Hoe academische titels (niet) werken
Alle antwoorden op vragen over academische titels waarvan je niet wist dat je ze had.
Hoe zit de Nederlandse publieke omroep in elkaar?
“Makkelijker kunnen we het niet maken, wel leuker.”
Captain’s Blog — This probably shouldn’t be on the front page, but it is
Please allow me to introduce mysel–… my personal user manual
This guide describes how I work. Useful for stalkers and future co-workers (current ones get access to a more complete version).
Computers for commuters: A brief history of my mobile (and less mobile) computing devices
For reasons that are no longer clear to me, I tried to name each of my computers after a space shuttle (and gave up after 22 years).
My 2021 in review
It’s the last day of the year, which means it’s time to reflect on all the things that have happened in the past twelve months.
Superproductivity at Room Temperature — Tools, tips & tricks for techies
How to manually refresh web page previews in Twitter cards
A tutorial that explains how you can force refresh the metadata of a web page in a tweet.
Introduce yourself to your team by writing a personal user manual
Your team mates might not be able to read your mind, but at least they could learn more about you by reading your user manual.
The five stages of job satisfaction
In this article I present a dumb framework for job satisfaction, which has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
The Project Aisle — A gallery of recent project launches
Dutch rolling stock, recreated using HTML and CSS
If all you have is CSS, everything looks like boxes and pseudo-elements.
A Sprinter Lighttrain (SLT) for your terminal
slt is kind of like sl, but instead of a steam locomotive it’s an NS Sprinter Lighttrain (SLT).
Website: The Next.js Generation
All the things you didn’t need to know about the current incarnation of my personal website.