The Project Aisle

A very incomplete list of projects that I have launched or worked on throughout the years

Coalaty: A static analysis tool for comments

Let me tell you about that time I wrote a wonky static analysis tool for comments in Java source code…

A person cannot use the vending machine because someone is standing in front of it.

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.

Parodie van de voorpagina van NOS.nl, met o.a. de artikelen ‘Conservatieven willen af van moderne softwarearchitectuur: “moeten terug naar God classes”’ en ‘Developers reversen massaal hun LinkedIn-lists om maar van vervelende recruiters af te komen’.

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?

Illustration of two cube-shaped buses

Cube buses be bussin’

Imagine a world in which all buses are cube-shaped for absolutely no reason.

A Sprinter Lighttrain appearing from a terminal window

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).

Cheese and a piece of coal with Dutch and British flags, presumably served during Friday afternoon drinks

Translate Dutch to English like it’s 1999

I spent three years building a web app that translates Dutch to bad English and the results are even worse than I expected.

Police officer shoots an innocent kid

COPTCHA: A Completely Original Public Turing test to tell bad Cops and Humans Apart

COPTCHA is a proof of concept for an online tool that your app can use to deny service to morally corrupt police officers.

The USS Enterprise’s captain Jean-Luc Picard gives an order

Website: The Next.js Generation

All the things you didn’t need to know about the current incarnation of my personal website.

Passenger information system at a bus stop

Using data to improve your bus and train rides

A non-exhaustive list of public transport projects I was part of throughout the years.

Creating student magazines with LaTeX and Bonaparticle

Why I designed and created the bonaparticle LaTeX class even though I strongly dislike LaTeX.

Screenshot of a CSS train

Dutch rolling stock, recreated using HTML and CSS

If all you have is CSS, everything looks like boxes and pseudo-elements.

Time-travelling spacecraft disguised as a police box

Allonsay’s language classification algorithm

How you can detect the language of texts, without using the “ML” word.

Voting form with “Robot journalism” as a candidate

Robot journalism at NOS

What happens when you use robots to report on Dutch and European elections in the Netherlands?

Shapes created from coloured blocks

Recreating Conway’s Game of Life using React

A small reimplementation of Conway’s classic simulation game using React.