🔨 Tech Top 10 things to do for building better pipelines CI/CD Pipelines are everywhere nowadays. There is a lot you can do, and a lot you should think about. This is the compilation of the top 10 things from my experience of building pipelines professionally for almost 5 years now. Pin versions Pinning your versions is the most crucial
🔨 Tech Why I still use (GNU) make for many projects in 2024 So make has first appeared in 1978, which was 40 years ago. It was one of the tools included in Unix 1.0. Of course, a lot has changed since then, but the file format itself is still pretty simple and what makes it so powerful. Key Elements of a
🔨 Tech Public money – Public code – What it is all about and why it is just logical. As the world goes, more and more digital, software is required everywhere. Not only to make your internet surfing possible or chatting with your friends and family. Governments need new software to make processes more automated and cost-effective. As taxpayers, we all pay the price for that as well, so
🔨 Tech Small things for building better container images Container images, commonly referred to as docker images, are everywhere nowadays, from the developers' workstation to the data center or even the cloud. It's easy to build those, but also easy to build something that's not ideal. A few useful tips for making your container
🤔 Mindstorm Ethics in the job and why it is so important Everyone, at some point, had a job where they had some decisions to make or tasks to they were not aligning with. And occasionally this is part of the job. At the end of the day, even your dream job can be annoying sometimes, and you just do it for
🧳 Travel EU Trip 2023 | Rewind, Stats & Learning Almost two months, my first real travel that went over two weeks. I saw a lot, experienced a lot and travelled a lot. This is a recap of the highlights for me, some stats and what stayed in my memory. The intention behind this post is to provide some insights,
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 12 (28.04 – 30.04) It's already week 12 of my trip, following the post about week 11. This will also be the last diary entry as it's the last week. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. What
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 10 (18.04 – 22.04) It's already week 10 of my trip, following the post about week 9. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 18.04 – Travel to & first day in Budapest Woke up pretty early, slept not too
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 11 (23.04 – 27.04) It's already week 11 of my trip, following the post about week 10. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 23.04 – An afternoon in Ljubljana I got up right before my alarm, showered and checked
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 9 (13.04 – 17.04) It's already week 9 of my trip, following the post about week 8. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 13.04 – A day in Bialystok I hadn't planned much for Bialystok, just washing
EU-Trip 2023 | Week 8 (08.04 – 12.04) It's already week 8 of my trip, following the post about week 7. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 08.04 – A day in Tallinn & Travel to Riga The last day in Tallinn. Since
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 7 (03.04 – 07.04) It's already week 7 of my trip, following the post about week 6. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 03.04 – A long day in Åland First, strictly said it was yesterday, the tax-free store
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 6 (29.03 – 02.04) It's already week 6 of my trip, following the post about week 5. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 29.03 – Travelling to Bergen & Exploring the city center Getting up too late, having to
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 5 (24.03 – 28.03) It's already week 5 of my trip, following the post about week 4. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 24.03 – Last day in the Netherlands Today is already the last day in the Netherlands.
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 4 (18.03 – 23.03) It's already week 4 of my trip, following the post about week 3. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. For the UK part, Gabriel, a friend of mine, joined. So expect him to be part
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 3 (13.03 – 17.03) It's already week 3 of my trip, following the post about week 2. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. For the UK part, Gabriel, a friend of mine, will join. So expect him to be
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Week 2 (08.03 – 12.03) It's already week 2 of my trip, following the post about week 1. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 08.03 Zürich Today was the first day in Zürich where I could explore the city
🧳 Travel EU-Trip 2023 | Prep & Week 1 (01.03 – 07.03) Here we go, week one! As promised in the post, “It's finally time for an adventure” the first week of my kind of travel blog / diary. While writing this, realized that 7 days are too much for a blog post, so will keep it short and reducing to
🤔 Mindstorm Things that no one tells you when starting your first full-time job, but are so valuable So, when I started my first full-time job, everything was super exciting. I thought, okay, I will give 120% from the start. Hyped and ready to rock this show. But there are a few things that no one told me and I didn't expect. While my first job
🔨 Tech Make frontend to microservice communication great again Your frontend is still stuck on a monolithic architecture, while your backend seems to get increasingly distributed? Do you see yourself doing too many API calls in your frontend, maybe even worsening it with different structures? Then this is for you. Abstract it away The first and easiest way is
🔨 Tech You should push your (IDE) config to version control — and here is why Many gitignore files are full of ignores, for our IDEs and editors. Is it Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or even vim? But why are we excluding all files, many even consider it as a bad practice having them in the project at all! Make setup for new devs easier The
🤔 Mindstorm Will AI replace our jobs? Recently, there has been a lot of news around ChatGPT and DALL-E. Both really impressive projects, pushing what's currently possible and for the very first time making it as easy as just writing a few lines of plain text. My fifty cents and opinion on the topic. Good
🧳 Travel Featured It's finally time for an adventure After years of COVID-19 and personal limitations that stopped me from finally start travelling, the time has come! What is it going to be? It's going to be a trip across a few different countries in March & April this year. To name them all: * Belgium * Luxembourg * Switzerland
📄 How Tos / Tutorials Build a self-contained shell installer Have you ever had yourself in the situation where you want to have a one-in-all installer for stuff on *nix-systems or macOS? I got you covered. What are we going to build? The idea is simple, you have an installer, which also includes your files, what? Exactly! We will have
🤔 Mindstorm Remote work is cool – A few tips after working remote for almost 3 years to keep it that way Remote work, for many of us the corona pandemic enabled us a complete new way of working and also living. I, personally, enjoy the freedom of being able to work from home. No struggle getting to work every day, and you just get so much more done. Don't
