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 It's no longer maintained so it has to get replaced with something else.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 because it's the new hot thing everyone should be using. I tried a bunch on a...

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, goes through each link in the feed, downloads the article, and generates a new...

RSS feeds are really great and I use them a lot for keeping up with personal blogs, corporate tech blogs and what's new at AWS. I don't think there's any other medium, apart from maybe email, that's so scalable, easy to understand and has such a rich ecosystem of readers and other tools. That said, there's nothing...

The best thing that happened this week A few things actually! My daughter was part of a dance show in the theme of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She did so well and it was very fun to watch. I'm a very proud dad. My post on using Render Hooks to generate responsive images got quite a bit of traffic. I've been...

Back in 2022 I wrote about automatically generating responsive images in both JPEG and WebP formats using Hugo shortcodes. In those days, browser support for WebP was still quite spotty so we had to generate both formats and do a little magic to let the browser fall back to JPEG if needed. Fast forward to 2026 and...

Since this weekend it's Easter and tomorrow I'm off work, I'm posting these weeknotes a day early. Tomorrow the plan is to do absolutely no computer touching. Tomorrow I'll wake up, bring my daughter to school, go for a run, play a video game or read a book and pick up my daughter around noon. The best thing that...

If you haven't worked with AWS before, or at least not to that extend, you might first want to know what Service Control Policies (SCPs) are. SCPs are a type of policy that you can apply on the organization level that allow or deny certain actions across all accounts that the SCP is applied to. This allows to deny...

The best thing that happened this week This week I put CalAction on the App Store! Right after it went live I soft-launched it on my social media, including LinkedIn where it got quite a bit of love. I even had the first few sales of my in-app purchase which I think is wild. Since releasing the app, I haven't sat...

I'm very particular when it comes to software development and UI design. When working on CalAction, I wanted to make sure that the app not only provided useful features, but also had a clean user interface that's easy to navigate, and that all bugs were ironed out. It took me a lot of time, effort and many builds to...

Some time ago my wife came to me with a problem: she wanted to import a calendar file from the Gmail app into our shared iCloud calendar. The process however was not straightforward and involved a lot of steps, including downloading the .ics file, finding it in the Files app, and then importing it into the Calendar...

The best thing that happened this week I haven't shared this yet, but I'm creating an iPhone app as a side project, and this week I've been making some pretty good progress. I'm not yet ready to share what the app is about since I'm very much still figuring things out. More on that in the coming weeks I hope!...

The best thing that happened this week This week it was carnaval in the southern part of The Netherlands. As I'm originally coming from somewhere where they don't celebrate carnaval, I don't really celebrate it now either but my daughter is brought up with it. We went to see parades and my daughter went to a party...