Category: English
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My home office setup, a quick tour
Since I’ll be working fully remote pretty soon, I upgraded my home office. A quick tour.
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I created a small Google Chrome extension
Have you ever opened a new tab in Google Chrome and became totally blown away by how cool your new empty tab looked? Of course not. New tabs are boring. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Plasmo, a framework for creating browser extensions. They promise to be battery-packed, like a Next.js for browser extensions. […]
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Best Kept Secret 2022
Memories of a festival. Top 5 bands: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (*****) Fontaines D.C. (*****) The Strokes (****) dEUS (***) 2manydj’s (****)
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I ❤️ HomePod Mini
Our kids need music to fall asleep. Our oldest daughter loves listening to theme park tunes before closing her eyes (she’s a massive fan of De Efteling). Before, this meant waiting besides her bed, with the music playing on your phone, until she finally dozes off. There were two disadvantages to this: It takes a […]
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I’m starting at Automattic
Lees de Nederlandstalige versie At the end of August, after more than 8 years, I will leave my current company (VRT). Eight exciting years, which I will look back at in detail in a subsequent blog post. On September 5th, I will start working as a Software Engineer at Automattic, the company started by Matt […]
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Back to WordPress(.com)
After some years of running this blog on Ghost, I’ve decided to switch back to WordPress. Ghost has made incredible progress during the past 9 years. But their focus has been on paid memberships and empowering creators for a while. This change of direction made me feel I’m not their target audience anymore. I’m just a simple […]
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My 2022 (mostly frontend) programming stack
This post is a post that’s been in my draft folder for way too long. I’ve wanted to write about my current programming stack for a while. This post is an overview of all the languages, frameworks, services, and tools I’ve been using in 2022. Where I come from More than 20 years ago, I […]
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Only one Airpod playing sound?
I’ve been struggling with a pair of misbehaving AirPods Pro for about a month now. Sometimes the left earpiece would play, sometimes the right, and every time I opened the case, iOS kept bugging me that these weren’t my AirPods. I tried every tip on the Internet and finally got it to work following these […]
