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The best thing that happened this week Since I made CalAction free to use the number of daily downloads has tripled which just goes to show that 1. there's demand for an app like this and 2. that people actively despise the in-app purchase label.

The best thing that happened this week It's been a while since I wrote these.

Since launching CalAction, I always struggled with the idea of the in-app purchase.

For the remainder of 2026 I still have three races to go.

The best thing that happened this week This week has been all about wrapping up the last bits of work before I head out for a one-week holiday.

I joined the Fediverse, or more specifically Mastodon, I think some time in 2021.

Due to the fact that toot.community is ceasing operations I moved my Mastodon account to Fosstodon.

The Garmin Cirqa has been out for 3 days now, so of course I'm qualified to write a not very comprehensive review.

The best thing that happened this week This week I released Burst version 1.3.0 which includes 19 achievements to chase after, plus translations to Dutch, French and German.

The best thing that happened this week I haven't had the best week since I fell sick with the flu which prevented me from getting any kind of quality sleep in for the past six days in a row now.

Update: Since this post, I submitted a new version of Burst (1.2.2) which will go live soon.

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.

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.

After CalAction I wanted to experiment a bit with SpriteKit and try to make a small game for iPhone.

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about my new Garmin Forerunner 570 and how it compared to my previous 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.

The best thing that happened this week This week we had our quarterly offsite with the entire tech team.

A couple of days ago I published Life is too short for a slow terminal.

I'm sorry, but we have to talk about AI.

Update: a reader sent some great pushback on how I measured "fast" here, and on a couple of my recommendations.

I don't enjoy editing my photos, never have.

If you have a multi-cluster EKS deployment for your development, QA and staging environments, those generally don't need to run at 3AM.

If you're even remotely into Kubernetes, you've probably heard about the ingress-nginx retirement.

The best thing that happened this week This will be a long update because quite a few things happened!

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.

The best thing that happened this week A few things actually!

Back in 2022 I wrote about automatically generating responsive images in both JPEG and WebP formats using Hugo shortcodes.

Since this weekend it's Easter and tomorrow I'm off work, I'm posting these weeknotes a day early.

If you haven't worked with AWS before, or at least not to that extent, you might first want to know what Service Control Policies (SCPs) are.

The best thing that happened this week This week I put CalAction on the App Store!

I'm very particular when it comes to software development and UI design.

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 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.

The best thing that happened this week This week it was carnaval in the southern part of The Netherlands.

A day late and a dollar short I suppose, but just now I remembered I got back to writing week notes.

The weeknotes are back after a long hiatus.

As someone in IT, someone who spends a lot of time thinking about systems and optimizations and data, it's easy to fall into this trap of constantly looking at your running data and trying to optimize every single angle.

2025 has been the year of handheld gaming for me.

Less Overthinking Scrolling Sitting Negativity Postponing Perfectionism Context switching Consuming More Movement Early mornings Deep work Iteration Positivity Ruthlessness Focus Reading Gratefulness Creating

For a lot of different reasons, I love the internet.

It's almost October, which means we're three quarters into 2025 already.

Another blog post?

Back in 2021 I was dipping my toes into the world of OpenBSD.

There are apparently two definitions of yak shaving: Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing one to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows one to solve a larger problem. and A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procr…

For the past two years I've been working remotely most of the time.

I am (was?)

Today I want to talk about my forever games.

Two years ago I got myself my first Garmin watch, the Forerunner 255S.

Oh, my phone number.

Over the past 17 years I've been working in IT, I've had the opportunity to work in many different roles and companies.