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.
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Een dag in het leven van een ✨ backend engineer bij NOS Digitale Media ✨
“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?
Flat Earth — It’s all downhill from here
An analysis of Chinese restaurant names in the Netherlands
Is it just me or do all Chinese restaurant names look the same?
Tiny catastrophes with apostrophes
This is a brief public service announcement for anyone who occasionally uses apostrophes or single quotes (or both).
I went completely loco with some logos
Some old and current logos of well-known brands and organisations in the Netherlands (but not quite how you remember them).
The Toilet Paper — Spicy papers with a grain of salt
Lead poisoning and death in the Roman empire
It’s not clear whether lead poisoning led to the decline of the Roman Empire, but it did lead to the decline of something within the empire.
Why snake_case is better than camelCase
There aren’t many reasons why you should choose snake_case over camelCase, but the ones that are there are pretty convincing.
Why camelCase is better than snake_case
Does it matter whether you use camelCase or snake_case for identifiers? Yes it does! Probably. Maybe.
Chuniversiteitschrift — This website uses a .nl top-level domain for a reason
Captain’s Blog — This probably shouldn’t be on the front page, but it is
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.
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.
The place to be for a PhD
I’m won’t be applying for a PhD any time soon, but if I were, my shortlonglist would probably look a bit like this.
Superproductivity at Room Temperature — Tools, tips & tricks for techies
Ways to facilitate communication and coordination between departments
A very brief introduction to the concepts of horizontal and vertical linkage.
How I separate my private and professional online browsing
My work-life balance is practically non-existent, but at least my browsing is completely separated…
Deploying apps on OpenShift: a stupid comparison between PHP, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and GraalVM
Spoiler alert: they’re not the same.
The Project Aisle — A gallery of recent project launches
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.
Dutch rolling stock, recreated using HTML and CSS
If all you have is CSS, everything looks like boxes and pseudo-elements.