Mijndert Stuij

Even when you're just working a 9-to-5, you will find yourself in a negotiation sometimes.

In the Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system there's this concept of an inbox.

People that know me well will tell you that I'm not the most optimistic person in the world.

Remember me waffling about computer monitors?

Everyone is a victim of The Algorithm in one way or another.

A laptop for just €950 is bound to be crappy, have some issues, and not last very long.

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I think with the ever growing power of mega corporations on the internet, writing a personal blog is a good way to keep the internet weird.

I think almost any nerd remembers their first computer monitor.

2024 has not been the best year for me and my family.

My gaming habits can be summed up in a single word: erratic.

Here's a fun new thing in the blogosphere: sharing your default apps.

Some time ago I wrote about config-driven import which became available in Terraform 1.5.

Anyone that knows me well can attest to me being a dreadful sports person in almost every category; except for one: running.

The idea of a personal wiki has always appealed to me.

Anyone who uses Terraform must be familiar with the import command; it allows you to gather existing resources and put them into your statefile.

In the realm of Amazon Web Services there's this thing called a Landing Zone, a set of infrastructure as code modules built to deploy new environments faster.

This post is outdated, check out my newer post on using Render Hooks for a more modern approach.

If you're serious about scaling your company you should stop doing DevOps teams.

Tomorrow marks the first full month of my move to toot.community, a Mastodon instance initially set up by my friend Jorijn.

I've been a Vim user for as long as I can remember, but in the last few years VS Code kind of took over as the defacto choice for us DevOps engineers.

The end of the year or your own birthday are both for reflection on the days and months that came before.

One of the most well-known patterns in infrastructure is having an internal load balancer in front of backend services like application servers.

To be clear right off the bat: I don't do well in busy offices.

I've been an avid user of various Linux distributions for 22+ years now and I will forever love everything about it and what it brought me.

Ever since this COVID-19 thing hit I've been working from home non-stop.

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer.

Places like Reddit and Twitter are filled with people who practice their version of minimalism.