Mijndert Stuij
Mijndert Stuij
Mijndert Stuij
Hi, I'm a lead platform engineer, runner and minimalist based in The Netherlands. I'm building highly scalable, high performance infrastructure on top of AWS. I try to break free from the silo's of development and operations. I love keeping things simple.
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A little over two weeks ago I released Burst and since then I added in a ton of bug fixes, and a completely new Zen mode for people who want to play without sweating the leader boards. Zen mode was born from the realisation that I was...
The best thing that happened this week It's been a really productive week with a lot of meetings (yes, those can be productive) and work done. I'm currently moving slowly on the migration of our production cluster to use Envoy Gateway....
There's roughly a billion videos on YouTube about how great a device the Steam Deck is, so I'm not going to sell you one. I'm also not going to tell you about its specs, because spec-for-spec it's already long been beaten by the likes of...
After CalAction I wanted to experiment a bit with SpriteKit and try to make a small game for iPhone. I don't usually play any games on my iPhone myself, because most are overrun with garbage like ads and loot boxes. With Burst I wanted...
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about my new Garmin Forerunner 570 and how it compared to my previous 255. I partly bought it for some new features and metrics, but also because I was experiencing some rather annoying bugs on the 255....
Version 1.6 marks the biggest upgrade to CalAction since its release in March, adding additional ways of ingesting and managing events in your calendar. Of course, in the meantime some bugs have been squashed and some rough edges have...
The best thing that happened this week This week we had our quarterly offsite with the entire tech team. Of course we talked a lot about AI, visited the Google offices in Amsterdam, and had a ton of fun. We've got such a good team going...
A couple of days ago I published Life is too short for a slow terminal. It got quite a bit of traffic, and someone sent me the kind of feedback you actually hope for. The gist of it: A stripped-down config isn't the only way to a fast...
I'm sorry, but we have to talk about AI. Especially AI use in engineering teams. It's all everyone's talking about right now. It's the hype du jour. LinkedIn thought leaders won't shut up about how not using AI will put you at a...
Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab...
Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab...
I don't enjoy editing my photos, never have. The part I like about photography is being out with my camera. The part I don't like is coming home to Lightroom and having a billion options to make my photos look a different way. For years,...
If you have a multi-cluster EKS deployment for your development, QA and staging environments, those generally don't need to run at 3AM. No one is using any of that, except for maybe a few cronjobs to refresh data. Everything else is...
If you're even remotely into Kubernetes, you've probably heard about the ingress-nginx retirement. It's no longer maintained so it has to get replaced with something else. That something else is obviously something to do with Gateway API...
The best thing that happened this week This will be a long update because quite a few things happened! The best thing that happened this week is that I made another side project public this week. I created a thing that takes an RSS feed,...