The Archive

• 2026

• September

• #41 Do we need the Superpowers plugin in OpenCode?
• #40 What about token optimizers?
• Installing and Configuring OpenCode
• Shuffling: Fisher-Yates vs Feistel
• Swapping Chrome for Brave on Windows
• #39 Slack App shortcuts
• #38 The harness matters
• #37 300,000+ open-source icons in SVG and PNG

• August

• #36 Why You Cannot See a Watermark in AI Text
• #35 A nerd font can bring more happiness to the terminal or the editor
• #34 Amazon bots are snitching on Amazon?
• #33 Gregor Hohpe: architects as amplifiers, not gatekeepers

• July

• #32 About hiring for your team
• #31 How the Nintendo 3DS got hacked…
• #30 Grill Me!
• #29 Building a notepad app under 4kb?
• #28 You won’t believe the (lack of) digital security at the FIFA Word Cup 2026!

• June

• How we switched 150+ stores from Redis to Valkey, and nobody cared!

• May

• #27 SIGTERM vs SIGKILL: What’s the Difference?
• Add Shift+Enter to OpenCode in Windows Terminal

• April

• #26 Skoda did some bike bell research

• March

• #25 Hebben! The Olaf Robot is so cool
• #24 Sloppypasta?
• #23 Why retro games used to look better!
• When the Planning Wall Doesn’t Scale
• Improve VS Code Commit Messages with GitHub’s git-commit skill

• February

• #22 Reverse Engineering Your Software Architecture with an LLM
• #21 5 step process for making things in a better way

• 2025

• December

• #20 Tricking a vibe coder?
• #19 Vibe Coding vs. Vibe Engineering?
• #18 Why do companies keep forking VSCode to build AI IDEs?
• #17 Steve Jobs on why owning a product matters in engineering

• November

• #16 Richard Sutton, father of RL, thinks LLMs are a dead end
• #15 Solving a Million-Step LLM Task with Zero Errors
• #14 How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity

• September

• #13 Async IO in Postgres 18
• #12 NX get vibe-hacked

• August

• #11 Vibe Coding without tech knowledge

• July

• #10 LLMs as mirrors

• April

• Unit Testing complex validations (study)
• Let’s combine Data Annotation Validation with FluentValidation
• Data Annotation validation with dependency injection in a business service
• Kiota Client Unit Testing: mocking data

• March

• #9 NASAs Coding Requirements Are Insane

• February

• Kiota, dependency injection and resilience
• Implementing HTTP Resilience by Microsoft

• January

• #8 RFC Process Example
• #7 How a Single Line of Code Brought Down a Billion Dollar Rocket

• 2024

• December

• How to bypass company wallpaper as local admin on Windows 11
• Debug JWT expiration locally with bash or PowerShell

• November

• Simple JWT Access Policies for API security in .NET
• Hubot Testing Revisted (Again): Hubot 11

• October

• How Istio and Argo CD helped us to debug platform migration issues for our App
• Notes on Git Setup with SSH for Windows (GitHub)
• Bash GitHub authentication: pull repositories with SSH and App Tokens
• Notes on installing Visual Studio Code on Windows

• September

• Home Assistant: track your favourite fuel stations
• Home Assistant: sending Zonneplan One stats to PVOutput

• June

• Wehkamp TechHub Journey towards cost optimization on AWS

• April

• #6 CI/CD Observability

• March

• Setup GPG signing for git commits on Windows

• February

• Notes on WSL Tuning
• Notes on Windows 11
• Shipping user friendly bash scripts with your Dev Container

• January

• Create new SFTP user in Ubuntu Server for WordOps
• Obtain an Atlassian Cloud 3LO refresh token with Bash

• 2023

• August

• Improving responsiveness of hubot-grafana
• Notes on Chocolatey
• Hubot testing revisited

• June

• A Dev Container for Bot Zero

• May

• #5 A Never Nester made a video
• #4 Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

• April

• Building a replaceAllAsync in TypeScript

• March

• .NET Console Application with injectable commands

• February

• Harmonizing Team tags on AWS S3 Buckets
• Rethinking our ASP.NET Docker CI
• Share AWS Vault session with Bash (WSL)

• January

• Expose a Docker Compose App with a Secure Cloudflare Tunnel
• Chrome Extension Development: Fetch non CORS URLs in v3
• App definitions from Mesos/Marathon to CSV

• 2022

• December

• Bash Script with a Library for Named Arguments
• #3 The source for a ChatGPT answer?

• November

• Grafana, I want slugs back for my Hubot! 😭

• October

• My Prettier Settings
• DevOps Days Eindhoven Talk: How To Handle The Immense Traffic of a Successful Influencer Campaign

• September

• Handlebars.Net: Fun with [Flags]
• Handlebars.Net & JSON templates
• Connect Ikea TRÅDFRI with KlikAanKlikUit (ICS-2000 / KAKU)
• Don’t use Slack Incoming WebHooks; App Creation is Dead Simple!
• Full Stack Live Meetup: How to handle the immense web traffic caused by a successful influencer campaign? (Dutch)

• August

• Task: Save Article to Markdown
• Jupyter Notebooks + VSCode Dev Container with Puppeteer support
• DateOnly in your .NET 6 API

• July

• Task: take some website screenshots and put them in a folder (in parallel)
• Retry with Exponential Back-Off utility method

• May

• Using the S3P API to copy 1.3M of 5M of AWS S3 keys

• April

• #2 Me giving tips and tricks on tech Twitter

• March

• Named Arguments in a Bash Script

• 2021

• November

• Parsing JSON data from S3 (Kinesis) with Spark

• October

• Having fun grouping arrays into maps with TypeScript
• Plotting a grid of images in Databricks

• August

• The Swiss Army Knife Decorator: exception logging, latency metrics and Jaeger spans combined
• Jaegerize my .NET Core setup!
• Simple implementation of dark mode

• July

• Spark: extract fields from an XML column
• Databricks: CSV, secrets management 🤫 and FTP

• June

• #1 New Programming Jargon

• May

• Spark: queries with datetime and time zones

• April

• .NET Core & the Google Analytics Real Time Data API

• March

• ALB access logs + Athena: identify target problems
• .NET API: capture original message body
• Python utility function: retry with exponential backoff
• Thoughts on AWS Vault config on Windows

• January

• A To-do List with Redis commands and Lua scripts

• 2020

• December

• A Table of Contents shortcode for WordPress articles
• Submenu navigation for category pages
• Shortcodes for simple post lists in WordPress
• A Stack data structure in TypeScript

• November

• Pluralize and Singularize a List of Dutch Words with Python

• August

• Prometheus Latency Metrics & Exception Logging with Scrutor Decorators
• Reading 400k+ key/values from Redis fast

• June

• Dependency Injection based on request headers

• May

• Cropping model images using PIL
• Plotting a grid of PIL images in Jupyter

• January

• Connect to AWS ElastiCache (Redis) with redis-cli
• Poll JSON endpoint until value changes with bash & curl

• 2019

• December

• Incorporate free ngrok in your Node.js application for local development
• “Is One Of” and “Is Not One Of” validation attributes
• Visual Studio Code + Docker + Python using WSL in Windows on Boot Camp
• Spark: replace array with IDs with values; or: how to join objects?
• Fix: stuck in Wi-Fi setup Honeywell T6 installation on Samsung

• November

• Docker on Synology: from git to running container; the easy way
• Add black borders to terminal screen recordings
• Streaming a Kafka Topic to a Delta Table on S3 with Spark Structured Streaming
• Easy Spark optimization for max record: aggregate instead of join?
• Add more color to the Python code of your Databricks notebook [retired]
• Kafka, Spark and schema inference

• October

• Simple Python code to send messages to a Slack channel (without packages)

• September

• Caching resized images on S3 with Databricks
• Sorting an array of a complex data type in Spark

• August

• Adding True/False and list value widgets to your Databricks notebook
• Investigate problems due to User-Agent using Bash
• Trigger Lambda for large S3 Bucket with SQS

• July

• My Little List of Tools for Prototyping

• June

• Convert JsFiddle to SVG using Node.js

• April

• AWS Lambda Size: PIL+TF+Keras+Numpy?
• Installing Ubuntu to Windows Server 2019 (WSL)
• Building a high performing last viewed list using Redis

• March

• Fixing “white” screen Windows 10 start search

• February

• Fizz? Buzz? FizzBuzz? Let’s discuss.

• January

• Setup Multiple Settings Files with a .NET Console Application

• 2018

• December

• Finetuning screen brightness with PowerShell
• Generate XML with attributes using PowerShell

• October

• Sorting a Dictionary on a List of Keys
• Building an updatable Slack message

• August

• Jump-starting Slack bot projects: bot-zero

• April

• Dependency injection (with IOptions) in Console Apps in .NET
• Cleaning up the default Hubot Slack installation

• March

• Install nano with Entware on Synology NAS (DSM6+)

• February

• .NET Core MVC: regex routing with named groups

• January

• CI/CD for .Net Core app deployment to Raspberry Pi using Bitbucket
• Hubot + ES6 + Promises

• 2017

• November

• Taming Unit Test logging in Docker pipeline for .NET

• October

• Linq: round-robin ordering based on segments
• PowerShell snippet: check if software is installed
• Draw .Net Core project relations with PowerShell and yUML
• Swap alt and cmd in Windows 10 (MacBook Pro)
• Fixing Air Mouse 2 Scrolling Windows 10 (Boot Camp)

• September

• Reject Invalid Values in Knockout Observables

• August

• Calculations with Roman Numerals using C#
• Parsing Roman Numerals using C#

• April

• A small batch file to compile and execute… Java

• 2016

• August

• Dynamically map JSON commands to object methods in .Net
• Support both Node.js and browser JS in one TypeScript file
• Convert QUnit test to Mocha / Chai

• July

• How to start Node.js app windowless in Windows
• Strongly Typed Events 0.3.0 – now with Signals
• Offline Google Authentication for MVC.Net
• Getting your weight from Google Fit with C#

• June

• Simple Database-less Authentication for MVC.Net
• Get keywords for images from the Google Cloud Vision API with C#
• Rasterizing EMF files with .Net / C#

• May

• Strongly Typed Events 0.2.0 – now with Simple Events
• A BlockHasher helper class
• An evaluator for simple script evaluation
• How to add dynamic compilation to your C# projects?

• March

• Adding named events to your TypeScript classes (Part 4)
• Strongly Typed Events in TypeScript using an event list (Part 3)
• Using strongly typed events in TypeScript with interfaces (Part 2)
• Strongly typed event handlers in TypeScript (Part 1)
• Auto fill settings objects with .config values

• January

• How to debug a StackOverflow crash in a .Net application on an IIS (production) server?
• Convert HTML to SVG using CloudConvert and C#
• Whipping WPExplorer’s Blogger Template into shape

• 2015

• September

• Login Credentials Generator – in JavaScript

• July

• How to share from your computer to your phone?

• April

• Increase WordPress performance on IIS

• 2014

• October

• Little life saver: parsing HTML entities

• April

• Double Click to Select All Code
• Serving SASS files for WordPress theme on IIS

• March

• A (slightly) better WebClient class supporting cookies and headers

• February

• Fixing an ‘Unable to Parse Bindings’ Error in Knockout.js
• Injecting jQuery – the right version
• Automatic Knockout model persistence
• Generate M3U Playlist with PowerShell

• 2013

• January

• Compare Files with PowerShell: a faster way

• 2010

• November

• Seek Position of a String in a Stream
• Regex Capture-Group Replacement in PowerShell (for .NET Developers)
• Regular Expression Groups: .NET vs JavaScript

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