Flask, docker and the backend []

Jappie Klooster is working with friends on a react native app. It was attempted to do this completely without server-side with help of Firebase. This post describes the thought process behind not using Firebase for everything, and setting up a custom backend instead.

The first major issue, for this

New new website style changes []

Due to circumstances in his life, Jappie Klooster decided it’s time for some more website changes! These are all intended to simply reduce the amount of time it costs maintain this website. This should allow Jappie Klooster to update it more regularly as the friction for updates is decreased.

Brutalist

Plan prediction []

For the raster project a main selling point will be the automatic prediction of future scheduling. There are two major schools of thoughts to go with that I know of. Constraint satisfaction solving and data driven approaches (use statistics).

First of all the most straight forward approach is to use

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

Beginning of eternal summer []

Right now I’m in the airport waiting to go to Jakarta. It’s really weird what I’m doing I think, few people actually travel alone by plane, but in my case I’m just sort of emigrating and finding a job in a foreign country.

I want to try and do an

Journey to Oceania []

Wednesday 2017-08-16 I’ll leave towards Oceania. First I will go for a month to Indonesia, having a little holiday and meeting my almost girlfriend. Then I will move on to Australia to do a “working holiday”, where I hope to do my profession, as a software engineer or work in

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