My name is Julien Lengrand-Lambert. I'm a full-stack developer and devrel living in the Netherlands. I love creating communities that make people and products shine. Welcome to my blog!
This post reflects on my experience as an (introvert) conference speaker for the first time earlier this year. I got the chance to speak at JFuture in October. I really loved the experience and some of the things I learnt there really surprised me
This article describes our journey being the first team to run Kotlin in the backend at ING (Netherlands). Hopefully this article will give you some keys on how to introduce it as well in your own large company, and reduce some of the friction you might encounter.
This article introduces an example project on how to integrate Firebase and Elm together
A simple demonstration on how to work with Elm Flags and Ports, with interactive code
As part of my job as IT Chapter Lead at ING, I am responsible for the 'mastery' of my chapter members. What that means is that I need to make sure they are basically on top of their game, and keep growing (in the direction they want!).I do most…
I built a simple chrome extension to know how long gitlab issues have been sitting in the same lane.
I have already explained in my last post the reasons for moving away from Jekyll running Github Pages.This post describes the steps I took to move everything over to Ghost, focusing on the content and not the networking / domain part of things.Creating the Ghost blogI used a one-click…
The last days, I finally set myself to something that was long overdue!After years using Jekyll hosted on Github Pages, I decided to move away from it and am now using Ghost on a Digital Ocean droplet. I originally followed the advice of Aiden on Twitter, and quickly got…
I'm a BIG fan of Spotify. I use it every day, hours on end. I like the fat client though, I find the web version way too buggy and unstable. At ING, we use a HTTP proxy and I have configured Spotify to go through the proxy. At home, I…
Over the last weeks, I have been reading quite a bit about Geomarketing and have been searching for fun experiements to do. One of my ideas was to check how many of the largest Carrefours in France has open parking lots in France. It was the perfect use case to…
Open Office plans are supposed to help collaboration. But really, they're a disaster and most people hate them.
Heyo, At Skyai, we are working a lot with Geographic Information Systems. Just like the large majority of the market, we use GDAL and its Python bindings for that. Even though we are ESRI partners, we still love our QGis…
Heyo, The past year, I've had a growing need for a dashboard to check what's coming. Lots of things to take care of for the baby, my girlfriend leaving couple days a month on average, keeping all family visits in…
Last week, I attended my first conference ever : The 2017 Polymer Summit in Copenhagen. I am used to go to Meetups (and organize them myself) but it was my first time taking part in something at a bigger scale. Since…
After 5 years spent working at Spacemetric, I finally decided to move on. The last years have been great and it's insane how much I grew. But I also think it's important to move when you start feeling too comfortable…
Couple weeks ago, I took part in ActInSpace, a space focused hackathon organized by ESA and Airbus and taking place in 12 countries simultaneously. The format of the competition was quite free, as a very large list of subjects was…
Hi there, This is a strange behaviour I have noticed when using Jenkins lately, that caused us a few headaches before we realize what was happening. At Spacemetric, we are using both Gitlab and Jenkins for CI. Gitlab is used…
Hey there, Writing today about something that happened a loooong time ago but I just finally received a digital copy of the article so it felt relevant :). About a year ago, I participated with friends to the Green Hackfest in…
Hey there, Today, I downloaded the latest version of ffmpeg and trid to compile it from scratch. Pretty soon, the console threw this error : Creating config.mak and config.h... /d/new-ffmpeg/mybuild/ffmpeg/library.mak:95: * missing separator. Stop.…
The source code at Spacemetric has been split over several reasons for years. The main reason was that some customers were having access to part of our code, while some other parts were to be kept private. This makes working…