Bart Kessels

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I've been trying to get Playwright to work in my devcontainer running on a Macbook M4 pro

This blog now includes a new category of posts.

When using an agentic team, it is important to have guardrails in place to protect the quality of your codebase.

To ensure our agents can execute commands only in an isolated environment, we use Dev Containers in Visual Studio Code.

Everything you read nowadays is about AI, so why not dig a little deeper into it.

All the agents in your team should properly work together and have access to the same knowledge, just like in a regular team.

Create your own team with different specialists using agentic AI.

Last season we started off late with the seedlings which turned out pretty bad.

Have you ever wanted to test if a solution or algorithm you've written or refactored is performing faster than the previous iteration?

When your app supports multiple languages using the string resources, it's pretty assumable that at some point you'll be needing a string that is different for multiple amounts.

During your development phase, you'd like everything that can be automated to be automated.

When developing an Android app, you're likely to iterate through multiple UIs.

The user base for your application includes multiple nationalities, so why don't you update your app to allow for multiple languages?

You've just set up Jetpack Compose, and now you want to make your app look like a native Android app.

You've just set up Jetpack Compose, but how do you properly separate the UI from the business logic?

In Android development, the new standard for building UI's is Jetpack Compose.

Install Oh My Posh on Windows to customize your Powershell.

When using Linux pipelines in your development process, it might happen that you need to execute a script.

Copy the contents of the yank operation from vim to your clipboard when using any Intellij IDE.

C# 12 finally introduces some new syntactical suger that I'm eager to use in production because it improves the readability of the code.

In C# 12, Microsoft has added the ability to specify default values for your lambda parameters.

Last summer my girlfriend and I decided to go backpacking in the wilderness of Sweden for three weeks.

In C# 12, Microsoft has added the ref readonly parameter modifier.

For those of you coming for Javascript or Kotlin, you're going to love this new feature.

I've been struggling with my work laptop which meant that I had to reinstall everything a couple of times.

Keep your automations yaml clean by adding names to each automation.

Keep your automations overview clean by adding multiple automations in the same yaml-file.

Keep your Philips Hue smart plug turned on even when you ask Google to turn off all the lights.

Cleanup your automations by controlling multiple lights in the same step.

Upgrade your automations by adding an OR condition.

Build a stand-alone Windows executable of your Qt application using CMake.

Build a stand-alone Windows executable of your Qt application using CMake.

Make your Google Home even smarter by adding an AND condition to your custom automation.

Use the same CMake target from one folder in another (sub)directory using CMake's include function.

As a software developer it's important to keep your software safe and up-to-date, but can you rest assured that your dependencies are safe and up-to-date as well?

Get a grip on the versions of the dependencies your using by visualizing a generated CycloneDX SBOM file.

Get the first character after the start of packet marker from the stream.

Find the start of packet marker in the data stream.

Since it's almost summer time in the Netherlands, it's time to plan the summer vacation.

Turn the input into a stream returned from a signal.

Execute the instructions to move the cargo from one stack to another in the same order.

Execute the instructions to move the cargo from one stack to another.

Turn the input into a list of stacks and another list of operations for the crane.

Find the compartments that overlap completely between the different assignments.

Find the compartments that overlap between the different assignments.

Turn the input into a list of assigned compartments for the elves to unload.

Find the item type that is common between two or more elves.

How to fix the Empty Char Literal error messages in Kotlin.

Find the same items that are stored in the two compartments of each rucksack.