Hayo Bethlehem
Hayo Bethlehem
Hayo Bethlehem
Born and raised in the Green Heart of Holland, I now call the picturesque town of Wassenaar home, where I live with my family. Just a scenic bike ride from The Hague, I work as a Senior Advisor at the Ministry of General Affairs, helping shape the digital landscape of government operations.
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By: Adrian Tchaikovsky | Rating: 2/5Where the first part was breathtaking in its scope and scale, this one feels almost claustrophobic. It took me a lot of energy to finish. It seems a rehash of the most uninteresting sections of the...
By: Dimko Zhluktenko | Rating: 3/5His personal tale of what he did when the Russians invaded. Very inspiring, sadly a bit short. It also cuts off before he actually joins the military. Dimko does give a great overview of the operation...
By: Rem Korteweg | Rating: 3/5I remember the whole Brexit debacle vividly. So I'm sad to read that sadly, there was no 4d chess going on, but the overflowing piles of hubris, stupidity, lack of strategic foresight and absolute populist...
By: Alexei Navalny | Rating: 5/5This is a very heavy book. Navalny was never going to save Russia from itself. A system built over hundreds of years, you can't take on by yourself in this manner. But at least he tried. The book is...
By: Artem Chapeye | Rating: 5/5A very thoughtful book. The perspective of the philosopher at war, and the choices he needed to make is incredibly valuable. His writing hits very close to home, as he brings up scenarios and choices that...
Over the decades, I've been a fairly loyal customer of my hosting providers. But sometimes something happens that requires me to move. My first real hosting provider for this website was MediaDesign. A small company from Leiden, owned by...
Since I completely reworked this website last year, I have been wondering about how to add some kind of commenting functionality. After a lot of experimenting, I decided it was going to be Mastodon integration. I started out with my...
This year I read 27 books covering a total of 9.237 pages.. Well, as far as the administration goes anyway. I'm missing a few months where my book application didn't exist yet. The best books were the ones by Wolfgang Faust. They are...
Oh Amazon. You've finally gone too far. Your horrible business practices have forces me to quit using your services. For years I've been a happy user of eReaders and thus eBooks. For years I did not mind getting them from an evil...
This year i'm doing things a little different; I'm downsizing the website. Since 2014 I've been dabbling in WordPress. And every year it has become more a stomach ache, and less a tool to make my life better. First there was Gutenberg....
Let's have a list of the real problems of cybersecurity in the current climate. Because it's probably not what everyone is talking about. Supply chains You think you buy something from this business. But they use several other suppliers....
While plugins can add valuable functionality to a WordPress website, there are instances where using too many or relying on them exclusively can be detrimental. I've seen many a website with over 20 different plugins installed, with...
Since I moved my website to WordPress in 2014, I've been amazed by how slow a stock WordPress website is, and how really, awful they can become if you don't know what you're doing. So here I present you with a list of options to improve...
Security headers are a crucial aspect of website security and can help protect against various types of attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and clickjacking. Here are some of the most important...
After a long time It's time for me to get rid of Gmail and transition to a new, more secure e-mail provider. I started using Gmail in 2004, the year of its release. Though it didn't become my primary e-mail application until two years...