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Self-host FreshRSS on a Microsoft Azure Web App A quick guide to setting up FreshRSS on Microsoft Azure using Docker Compose and an Azure Web App. 2023-01-06 Azure, RSS, FreshRSS

Valheim public-test server How to update your Valheim server on Linux to the public-test branch. 2022-11-23 Valheim, Gaming, SteamCMD, Linux

Today I learned - kubectl replace Want to quickly edit something running on kubernetes? Here's a nice (bit reckless) way to do so. 2022-11-21 today-i-learned, kubernetes, kubectl

It all starts with smaller stories Improve your development process by breaking down work into smaller pieces. 2022-10-18 agility, developer experience, devex, developer practices

My first podcast appearance I was invited to record a podcast about developer experience (in Dutch). 2022-09-01 Developer Experience, Podcast

Paved road - Templates Reduce waste and improve developer experience with application templates. 2022-07-29 devops, developer experience

Paved road - Deployments Reduce waste and improve developer experience with pipelines-as-a-service. 2022-07-18 devops, developer experience

Valheim server on Linux A step-by-step guide to setting up a Valheim server on Linux. 2021-09-12 Gaming, Linux, SteamCMD, Valheim

Microsoft Edge Picture-in-Picture A bookmarklet that pops out video players in Microsoft Edge. 2021-02-19 Microsoft Edge, Javascript

It's new tech! New PC hardware. 2021-01-19 Hardware, PC Building

Dotnet core 5 on a raspberry pi A quickstart on how to run and use dotnet core 5 on a Raspberry Pi 2021-01-10 dotnet core, raspberry, linux

The great quarantine of 2020 Global pandemic, work-from-home and washing your hands 80 times a day. 2020-10-29 quarantine, wfh, life stuff

Some fun with Pico-8 Spent a few hours with (again) with Pico-8 and Lua to dabble about. 2020-04-27 Pico-8, Lua

SpringOne Platform 2019 I was in Austin TX for the SpringOne Platform conference, here's some highlights from a .net dev's persective. 2019-10-12 pivotal, spring, conference, itq

Read comics on your Kindle e-reader A quick guide on how to transfer comic books to your Amazon Kindle. 2019-07-19 comics, kindle, e-reader

Environment variables in an Azure Web App for Containers A little gotcha when using a .net core app in a container on Azure that needs environment variables. 2019-05-04 docker, containers, dotnet core, azure, itq

Let's talk containers Platforms, apps, containers, functions, what?! 2019-03-05 containers, apps, cloud foundry, kubernetes, itq

Cloud Foundry configuration with SteelToe A look at loading configuration using SteelToe and making it injectable 2019-01-11 cloud foundry, steeltoe, aspnet core, dotnetcore, itq

ASP.NET Core logging on Cloud Foundry Using ILogger to write logs on Cloud Foundry 2019-01-10 cloud foundry, asp.net core, dotnet core, logging, itq

Setting up an Azure Storage static website How to set up hosting for your static website on Azure Storage 2019-01-03 azure, static website, itq

2018 A year gone by, so what's going on. 2018-12-23 recap, 2018

Debloat your Sony smart TV A quick little tip to get rid of some garbage on the start screen of your TV. 2018-09-26 sony smart tv, android

Pivotal Cloud Foundry Certified Developer Another exam done, I am now a Pivotal certified CF developer! 2018-06-28 Pivotal, Cloud Foundry, certification, itq

Easy CSS grid A barebones grid in just a few lines of CSS. 2018-05-11 css, flex, itq

Cloud Foundry Certified Developer Took the exam and now I'm Cloud Foundry certified! 2018-04-09 Cloud Foundry, certification, cfcd, itq

Multiple listeners for your Service Fabric service Enable multiple listeners on a Service Fabric service and seperate the entrypoint of the service from the actual implementation. 2018-03-31 Azure, Service Fabric, C#, Microservices, itq

Angular (5) and aspnet core (2) quickstart A get-up-and-go with the Angular CLI and dotnet core. 2018-01-02 Angular, Angular CLI, dotnet core, aspnet core, itq

Openhack Amsterdam 2017 Lift-and-shift, Azure Servic Fabric, Minecraft 2017-10-14 Azure, Service Fabric, Microsoft, itq

Uploading files - a simple approach Upload (smallish) images (with preview) with some Javascript and HTML 2017-07-31 HTML, Javascript, itq

An underrated feature in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe One of the most helpful things I've seen in videogames in a long time. 2017-07-25 Gaming, Nintendo

A fresh start A complete refresh of the blog! 2017-07-20 Blog

Enable tethering on LineageOS using ADB A little hack to enable tethering on your Android device when it's blocked by your operator. 2017-05-01 Android, LineageOS

Dotnet Core CLI user secrets User secrets are what you use for settings in a dotnet core app that you don't want leaking into your repos. 2017-04-20 Dotnet Core, itq

Dotnet Core tooling quickstart Up and running with the new dotnet core tools. 2017-04-09 Dotnet Core, itq

A game for programmers I play video games every now and then and I've recently discovered a game (that was in my Steam library for quite some time already) that gives me the same sensation as when I'm programming. 2017-02-08 Gaming, Factorio

Date validation in AngularJS Another angular post! This time we take a look at how to create a directive that ensures the user enters a valid date (and/or time). 2016-10-27 Javascript, Angular, itq

Simple dialogs with AngularJS and TypeScript While working an Angular (1) web app I ran into the age old problem of showing the user notifications when certain conditions are met. 2016-09-15 Javascript, Angular, HTML, CSS, itq

The dialog element I was grinding my teeth on a z-index problem today. I found out about the dialog element and all was saved. 2016-07-06 Javascript, HTML, CSS, itq

Express route management Setting up a webserver with Node and Express. 2016-06-03 Javascript, Node, Express, itq

RabbitMQ with NodeJS on Cloud Foundry I've been having some more fun with Cloud Foundry deploying Node apps and wanted the apps to communicate in a more disconnected way. 2016-05-27 Javascript, Cloud Foundry, RabbitMQ, itq

Creating a toggle switch with HTML and CSS My current project involves an interface that is 100% touch driven (no keyboard and mouse) and I was asked to turn a regular old checkbox into a toggle switch. 2016-04-27 HTML, CSS, itq

My first ASP.NET Core app on Cloud Foundry A look at deploying a dotnet core app on Cloud Foundry. 2016-03-30 Dotnet core, Cloud Foundry, itq

Multiple DbContext's with migrations on a single database Here is a small problem I ran into while working on my current project. 2016-03-02 C#, Entity Framework, Databases, itq

Another simple loading indicator Here is another loading indicator for when your webpage is busy waiting for a server request to come back with an answer. 2016-01-14 HTML, CSS

POST-ing JSON to an ASP.NET Web API controller So you want to post some JSON to an ASP. Here's a quick primer. 2016-01-12 Javascript, jQuery, C#, ASP.NET

Going 4K with the Philips BDM4065UC Dual screen setups are great for work but you can't always have two of the same size/model side by side. 2016-01-06 Hardware, Display, itq

Animations and transforms Animations and transforms using CSS and HTML. 2015-12-01 CSS, HTML, itq

App.config xdt transforms Here is a little hack you can do to enable transformations in App.config. 2015-11-13 C#, Configuration transforms, itq

Cloud Foundry Summit 2015 Berlin On the 2nd and 3rd November in 2015, the Cloud Foundry Foundation was in Berlin. I attended and here are my thoughts. 2015-11-04 Cloud Foundry, Conventions, itq

Read Spotify track info using C# Spotify recently updated the desktop app again and it is once again possible to read current track info directly from it. 2015-10-09 C#, Spotify

The new rig After saving up money for a while I bought myself a new desktop PC. 2015-09-23 Hardware, PC

Basic string templating in C# Every solution I've worked on required some form of communication via e-mail or other form of text to the outside world, reporting, notifications or something else. 2015-07-07 C#, String templating, itq

CurrentColor in CSS If you've ever used something like LESS or SASS you know what a variable is in CSS. 2015-06-22 CSS, itq

Creating release notes with Visual Studio and TFS For that one time you need release notes but forgot to track what was changed. 2015-05-21 TFS, Release notes

CSS Transitions basics End-users interact with your applications via the user interface (UI for short). Here are some simple things to spice it up. 2015-05-19 CSS, Transitions, itq

The bug report When you work on software, you will at some point encounter bugs. 2015-05-12 Bugs

Fluent data access A quick look at a different approach to data access code in C#. 2015-05-06 C#, Data access

Easy Windows Service debugging Long running processes in a web applicatoin running on IIS is a bad idea. 2015-04-26 C#, Windows Service, Debugging, itq

Generating an RSS feed in C# A hobby project of mine needed to generate an RSS feed. 2015-04-26 C#, RSS, ASP.NET, System.ServiceModel, itq

Getting started with Inversion of Control Alright, lets dive straight into the deep end and take a look at Inversion of Control. 2015-04-26 C#, IoC, Dependency injection, itq

Overwriting a function in Javascript Let's take a look at how to replace the workings of one function with that of another. 2015-04-26 Javascript, itq

SignalR dependency injection My go-to container for IoC at the moment is SimpleInjector because you know, simple. 2015-04-26 C#, Dependency injection, SignalR, itq

The simplest loading indicator I had a brainwave and dove into codepen for a little bit to doodle around and when I emerged I had this simple little loading indicator. 2015-04-26 CSS, HTML, itq

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