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Haskell 💜 Vibes []

It was Friday, 27th of February 2026, when I was reborn. bro. I’m vibe coder now. bro. for real.

This is how it

Firmware lemons 🍋 []

Life and lemons

Ever found yourself fixing a problem you weren’t hired to solve? To the point where you’re under qualified? That’s what happened when I dove into firmware. It was my suggestion, nobody asked me to do this, but we

Lessons from creating a vacation rental. []

Villa Katalina in aruba~ is online.

pic of the house

You can book this wonderful rental now! This is the rebranded summerhouse Paradis. It’s a villa that can host up to 8 guests, located in Aruba. I think this rental project is slowly turning out to be successful,

Follow Up on the Follow-Up []

Reflective

This is a follow-up on the follow up of release rodeo. Okay, I should stop doing these, however, I thought the situation was a bit too ironic not to record. On my final week working for that company 1, the product manager involved

Follow up release rodeo []

This is a follow-up on the release rodeo.

After I wrote that blog post, the CTO found it quickly by coincidence. He was quite okay with everything I had written. However, he took issue with that I called his critique “scolding”. I suppose he didn’t exactly scold me. I

The Release Rodeo []

Release rodeo~

In the beginning, there was nothing. We merged completed features after a month or so of development, leading to large PRs and often unexpected implementations. Then, feature flags were introduced. This allowed the merging of code in chunks, enabling QA to test thoroughly. The

About my startup: raster.click []

raster logo

As a founder of raster.click, I was passionate about providing rostering systems for restaurants that were easy to use and affordable. I worked hard to build a functional product that our users loved, and I was proud to have three paying

The peculiar event sourced deadlock []

THE UNDEAD LOCK OF DETH

One thing that always surprises me is how casually serious problems are phrased by business people in their blissful ignorance. “Hey why am I seeing the down for maintenance screen?” “Oh try it now, the pack uploading has finished”, Said the QA engineer to the

Why do I still write this blog? []

My motivation for blogging has changed over time. I’d like to revisit my initial reason, and discuss how this changed while maintaining the blog. After all I keep posting articles on here, something has to keep me going right?

We can read my original motivation. The initial goal was

The Nix mutli-monolith machine (NMMM). []

a NMMM computer

I redid how my services are structured. Instead of running each project on a separate VM, they’re now all running on a dedicated Hetzner machine. This is what I call the nix multi monolith machine (hence forth called NMMM, pronounced like tasting something delicious prefixed with an

Starting at Daisee []

Recently quite a few changes have happened within Jappies’ life. First of all, he is no longer at OpenLearning. This relationship ended at the end of February. March was used for job searching. To help with this a proper portfolio was constructed. Last week there were three interviews with

Jakartian Christmas []

Unfortunately Jesiska couldn’t make it to Australia in time for Christmas. Therefore I decided basically last week to go to Jakarta instead! I personally don’t care much about Christmas, but I thought the office would be closed during this time. (Many companies close in the Netherlands for sure during this

Jappie lives with kangaroos []

I’ve been living in Australia for well over a month now and I really enjoy it! The first two weeks were quite a wild ride, looking for my first job and finding a permanent place to stay.

I had 3 interviews appointments prepared before arriving. I finished them in the

Work work work, ya ya ya []

Last Wednesday I started my first job at Open Learning. It has been interesting, I know for a fact I contributed almost nothing to the company up to this point. This is to be expected according to reddit since it’s the first week. I did ask a lot of

What do you think about jakarta []

Now I’ve finally arrived in Australia, its time to reflect upon my expectations I had for Jakarta. Actually.. While being in Jakarta I got asked this question quite frequently: “What do you think about jakarta?” and I just stood there with no answer. This post is an attempt to answer

My thesis []

I’m done. The master in AI is complete. I finished the thesis about adding `Jungian personality in a chatbot’. In this blog post I will give a summery and some comments from a programmers’ perspective that just don’t fit in a thesis. For example, the implementation are not at all

Comparing tax in different countries []

Soon I will be graduating from my masters in AI. However since I was planning to go abroad I wanted to see how much worse or better taxation laws are compared to my own country (The Netherlands).

For starters we will compare with the eastern neighbours (Germany). Scale 3 has

Second post []

Yeah, I needed two actually to make sure everything looks good.

So I guess I can type lots of information here.

I wonder how long it will continue..

Quite long acutually.

Well, that’s fine. I’ll just think off more spaced out words!

Damn I need to type so much before

First post []

So I’m trying to setup this website and to do this I need some filler text. Some people would make prommises about putting something up every week or so. But I don’t wanna do that because I hate chores, so this may as well be a huge waste of time.