Willem L. Middelkoop

It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, something annoying.

Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible!

This month I am leveraging platform capabilities to launch a new product.

The past year I have been experimenting with creating my own tablet operating system using Debian GNU/Linux and the i3 window manager on a Microsoft Surface Go 2 with LTE.

This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking.

This month I received a shipment from China containing some special hardware, Android devices with embedded printers!

Apple now designs its own processors and I had a chance to work with the very latest from Cupertino: a brand new MacBook Air with M1 processor.

This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism.

Last month a very special package arrived from Switzerland, containing my custom made wrist watch.

Last week my son and I where looking for bears in the local park... a child's fantasy is priceless!

Every now and then I switch my gear to keep a tap on what is going on outside my regular tech habits.

Writing for my blog has been a lot of fun, I receive messages from all of the world about the things I like.

It is very important to make backups of your data, as you never know when disaster strikes!

This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed.

For the past week I have been riding my bicycle with Omata One, a special bike computer.

Earlier this year I tried to create my own tablet operating system by installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Microsoft Surface Go tablet.

In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone.

After encountering the umpteenth ‘magic’ bug while managing my iPhone’s photos, I was done with it.

This week I was cleaning my closet when I found an old watch.

The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving.

This week I stumbled upon a brilliant report on how people make their purchase decision.

This month I did an attempt to upgrade my 27-inch iMac 5K.

This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down!

Past weeks I have been working on a new app involving personal health.

For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, pretty much every day and night.

As part of the food ordering app I am building, I needed to design a reliable way to link the app to external systems.

This month I did some research into how health is visualised in fitness apps and games.

As part of the online food ordering app I'm building, I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users.

Online ordering pages are more important than ever before.

For the past few months I have been riding a special kind of bike, the minimalistic Siegfried Road from Schindelhauer.

Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways this is a forward thinking device.

Last month I received an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage, usually a sign of trouble.

Online payments are now more important than ever as businesses are disrupted by the COVID-19 virus.

For some years now I use a tablet as main computer, I like its versatility.

This week I flew to Gothenburg to meet people from a large international shipping company, talking about the development of enterprise level software.

If you use different devices and computers to get things done, you might want to synchronise contacts, agendas and tasks.

This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one.

This week I went to my doctor to have my blood examined, to determine my cholesterol levels.

Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light.

The past months I have been wearing the WHOOP Strap 3.0, a wearable sensor that collects health and fitness data.

For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with computer vision using TensorFlow.

Earlier this month my dynamo powered headlight on my commuter bike needed replacing.

Over the past few years I have been moving my data and work from local computers (mostly laptops) into the cloud.

As a wonderful birthday gift I was honoured to fly in a DC-3 classic plane.

Last month Apple released iPadOS, the first dedicated operating system for iPad.

This month I was lucky enough to attend Global AppSec Amsterdam, an international conference for hackers and security specialists.

This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage.

After I created a minimal road bike, I decided to install a power meter to find out what's it like to measure the power output of my legs.

Over the past months I have worked on different bikes, leading to an accumulation of spare parts in my garage.

Sleep monitoring is a popular feature of many smartwatches and wearables.