Willem L. Middelkoop

A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website, therefore it's no surprise people ask me to have a look at their site's security.

Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my apartment.

People pay me to hack them, provided I'll explain how it was done, so future hacks can be prevented.

A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates CDN/CDX carbon belt drive.

Just days after our son was born, we ran into trouble when our little man didn't want to eat anymore.

Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything!

Over the past few months I have been testing different bags and cases to fit everything I need to run my business.

Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river!

Earlier this month I drove around town for a week in an electric vehicle, a brand new Smart Electric Drive (EQ fortwo).

This week I went to Frankfurt for business.

Yesterday a young woman brought me her laptop, it didn't start anymore and it only showed an error message.

Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments.

This month Apple launched a new Apple Watch series and released an update to watchOS.

One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller.

This summer holiday brought me to Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain.

This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies.

This week a man brought his laptop to the community centre where I help people with computer problems as volunteer.

Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium.

There is beauty in raw, unfinished material that is often hidden with superfluous layers of paint.

Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood.

A good customer of mine was once a physiotherapist, he told me about people asking him to "feel their muscles" to tell them how they where doing.

This week I was invited to fly along over the Netherlands in a small aircraft, from Hilversum to Texel.

For the past 10 days I have powered my personal electronic devices (phone, computer, wearables) using nothing but energy collected using a small solar panel.

This month I made my debut as amateur actor.

This week one of my clients was hacked and asked me for emergency assistance to help secure their server infrastructure.

For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer.

This winter I use a Sensa Cintura bike with a Gates Carbon belt drive as my daily commuter.

Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar.

A good friend of mine had an issue with his Apple Watch, the digital crown lost a rubber ring causing the watch to lose its water resistance.

About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant.

For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle.

Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate.

Right next to the house were I was born there was this chestnut tree, sadly it died one and a half year ago.

Last night I had a nasty surprise: my original MacBook Air was swollen due to an exploded battery.

Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday.

At my home I have this crazy fast optical internet connection.

Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore.

This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland.

This month I received an invitation to join Mercedes at the Zolder circuit in Belgium to drive in "the beast".

Technology has come a long way since the first computer.

This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild".

Over the past years I have been no stranger to crazy experiments, but this time I really wanted to push it into the extreme: programming on an Apple Watch.

I wanted see if I can find something better than my old fashioned pencil and paper that I use for designing software as professional developer.

One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long Gran Fondos.

After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted to do something for other people as volunteer.

Smartphones are everywhere in the modern society we live in today.

Almost a year ago I bought an old steel racing bike from 1978.

The lack of physical clutter, distracting branding, or blinking LED's makes the iPad Pro a textbook example of minimal design.

Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a bunch of loyalty programs and membership cards.

One must be a bit crazy to come up with the idea to build a blog (as in: actual programming) on an old 486 laptop with just 16MB RAM.