[reflection] reflection

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, but it wasn’t easy …

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 …

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 …

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 <abbr>UNDEAD</abbr> LOCK <abbr>OF</abbr> 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 product manager. Once I saw …

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 <abbr>NMMM</abbr> 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 N). There …

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 Daisee …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …