Translation parameters in angular-gettext
As a general rule, I try not to include new features in angular-gettext: small is beautiful and for the most part I consider the project as finished. However, Ernest Nowacki just contributed one...
View ArticleCommercial open-source: Sentry
Commercial open-source software is usually based around some kind of asymmetry: the owner possesses something that you as a user do not, allowing them to make money off of it.This asymmetry can take on...
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CoreOS Fest 2017
CoreOS Fest 2017 happened earlier this month in San Francisco. I had the joy of attending this conference. With a vendor-organized conference there’s always the risk of it being mostly a thinly-veiled...
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Distrinet R&D Bites
The Distrinet Research Group at KULeuven (where I studied!), recently asked me to speak about “Cloud Native” at one of their R&D Bites sessions. My talk covered Kubernetes, cloud automation and all...
View ArticleGo: debugging multiple response.WriteHeader calls
Say you’re building a HTTP service in Go and suddenly it starts giving you these:http: multiple response.WriteHeader calls Horrible when that happens, right?It’s not always very easy to figure out why...
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Jupyter lab with an Octave kernel
Octave is a good choice for getting some serious computing done (it’s largely an open-source Matlab). But for interactive exploration, it feels a bit awkward. If you’ve done any data science work...
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Let's talk about the developer experience
Yesterday, at the AWS User Group Belgium Meetup I presented a short lightning talk. It was a call to action for the fact that operations people should pay more attention to the developer...
View ArticleNew beginnings
A couple of weeks ago our first-born daughter appeared into my life. All the clichés of what this miracle does with a man are very well true. Not only is this (quite literally) the start of a new life,...
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Retro Operations
In his post Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old, Ken Shirrif gives a beautiful overview of how IBM mainframes were operated.I particularly liked this bit:The second console...
View ArticleGo: JSON and broken APIs
If you’ve ever used Go to decode the JSON response returned by a PHP API, you’ll probably have ran into this error:json: cannot unmarshal array into Go struct field Obj.field of type map[string]string...
View ArticleGo: io.Reader gotchas
I’ve really come to appreciate the elegance in the io abstractions in Go. The seemingly simple patterns of io.Reader and io.Writer open up a world of easily composable data pipelines.Need to add...
View ArticleRust: First Impressions
I’ve been studying the Rust Programming Language over the holidays, here are some of my first impressions. My main interest in Rust is compiling performance-critical code to WebAssembly for usage in...
View ArticleAngular: ng not watching for changes
Running Linux and noticed that ng serve or ng test don’t observe changes and thus won’t reload/test automatically?This might be caused by simply having too many files in your tree, causing your system...
View Article2021
And suddenly, before you notice it, the year has passed. And what a year it has been…It’s easy to brush 2020 off as a year to quickly forget, given the pandemic we suddenly find ourselves in. But I’d...
View ArticleRecent tech reading
So much things going on these days, it’s already shaping up to be a pretty crazy year, in the good sense. Pretty much as I predicted at the start of the year, though it must be said that 2020 didn’t...
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