Rebuilding my site using Pelican and self hosting it on my RaspberryPi.

There’s now also an English version of this post. De hele korte versie: organisaties twijfelen vaak vele jaren over het uitbesteden van dingen, met name ICT. Gedurende die jaren vertrekken de goede ICT-mensen, want steeds je eigen...

Title: Brian's blog Website: brianjdevries.com RSS Feed: brianjdevries.com/feed.xml A software developer living in Michigan who writes about miscellaneous life updates RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider...

Blame the thickets and the paradoxes

Today I learned how to force a VSCode Dev Container to run on amd64 architecture on my Mac. In essence, build a custom docker image by specifying a Dockerfile and in the FROM statement of the Dockerfile, specify the --platform flag. When...

A little under two months ago, I started a different kind of journey to learning something new. I swapped out the tired old qwerty layout on my keyboard for Colemak (specifically Colemak-DH variant) in an attempt to have less finger...

I was listening to a Deep Dive episode with Nathan Berry (CEO of ConvertKit) as a guest. And there was this one quote by him, that really resonated with me1: It’s simple, not easy. He was saying this in the context of writing 1000 words...

Today I get to release the first working version of static-httpd. I have always found value in using an HTTP static file server to serve up some quick sites out of the current working directory. I've even written an article way in the...

Błękitna kropkaCzłowiek i jego przyszłość w kosmosieAuthor: Carl Sagan I love science and I’m passionate about cosmos since I was 5. One of my favourite books from the childhood was the one about Universe - with color pictures. This one...

Inspiration came from Stu Robson The DevRel Went Down to Georgia (to the tune of The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”) The DevRel went down to Georgia, they had some code to shillThey were in a bind, cause they...