How I solved Advent of Code day 1, live, and what I learned from it.
Advent of Code Day 1 : Kotlin TIL
Thoughts on using Docker in the cloud for side projects
Why are cloud provider barebones Docker container solutions so expensive to run? This makes them virtually unsuitable for side projects.
Paginate results in a command line application using picoCLI
In this article, I describe a way to paginate results in picocli applications.
Building a wine cellar monitoring system - Part 2 : Creating a native Java library
In this article, we will to create a native library so that our C driver can be used from Java. We will also create a jar that includes the library. We generate our outputs using Github Actions with the help of cross-compilation and even publish our jars there as packages!
Building a wine cellar monitoring system - Part 1 : The hardware and setup
In this series of posts, we'll see how to build a wine cellar monitoring system sending data to the #cloud with some #iot, #timeseries and #microservices on a #raspberrypi. Is that enough buzzwords yet?
Latest Articles
Reducing our Carbon Docker image size further!
Second post of the series, we keep diving into more ways to reduce our Docker image size. Let's see how we manage to reach a factor 10!
Reducing Docker's image size while creating an offline version of Carbon.now.sh
Creating a docker image of carbon.now.sh that is as small as possible, step by step so we can create beautiful snippets offline.
Jpackage : Overview of one of Java 14's hidden gems
Jpackage : Overview of one of Java 14's hidden gems. In this article we will create an installer for Minecraft using jpackage.
Some fun with Kotlin, Exposed and MySQL
Some lessons learned from playing around with Kotlin, Exposed, SQL and the iMDB datasets.
My dialog flow and PSD2 talk at @JFuture
This post lists the recording and resources of my IOT Talk at JFuture.
Introvert? Try speaking at a conference!
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
Introducing Kotlin at ING, a long but rewarding story
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.
About integrating Firebase in your Elm project
This article introduces an example project on how to integrate Firebase and Elm together
A short introduction to Ports and Flags in Elm
A simple demonstration on how to work with Elm Flags and Ports, with interactive code
Creating communities : Consistency is paramount
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…