Koen van Hove's personal writings

This is a blog post about me.

Even though it's already June, I still wanted to make a (short) post about the things I did for April Fools this year.

Dit is een vervolg op Vibe coding bij het Ministerie van Defensie.

I've always liked giving a slight twist to everyday objects, and clocks are no exception.

Zo'n tien jaar geleden was de blockchain een enorme rage.

Recentelijk kwam ik erachter dat het Ministerie van Defensie op zoek is naar "een gedreven Vibe-Coder en AI-developer specialist die als onmisbare schakel gaat fungeren binnen een OSINT Dev-Ops-team gericht op de ontwikkeling van een schaalbaar, veilig en…

For a long time I’ve been fascinated by DVD menus.

rsync is quite an amazing tool to sync files from one location to another remote location, and that for nearly 30 years.

For the last six year I have designed and sent Christmas cards to friends, family, and colleagues.

If you have read my blog before, then you know that I bought a Stream Deck a bit under a year ago.

This is a story about Dakar Desert Rally, a game I have a love-hate relationship with.

Recently I assembled a new PC.

Voor de verandering schrijf ik een keer in het Nederlands, want dit onderwerp leent zich niet zo goed voor het Engels: het gaat namelijk over de Rijksoverheid en over podcasts (ironisch genoeg is er geen goede Nederlandse vertaling voor “podcast” — missch…

Some time ago I wrote about backups, my love-hate relationship with most back-up software available, how Duplicati had let me down when it came to rebuilding my database, and I switched to my own solution.

I am a big fan of doing silly things seriously.

In Splitsing drie links niet snijden 500!

I have data.

I will preface this by saying that this will mostly be pictures.

(this is a continuation of the previous part, and the first part) Previously I received the result of how my request was handled, which was, in summary, only blacked-out text.

I’m Dutch, and even though this blog post is written in English, I’m a big proponent of the Dutch language.

I picked up a Christmas project.

Previously I wrote about a mysterious switch I found in the car I had recently bought, and my search to see what it did.

Last week I bought a car.

(this is a continuation of the previous part) The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has not come back to me yet regarding the original freedom of information (FOI) request.

A friend of me alerted me on 1 May 2024 that a Call for Input was published by the Minister for Women and Equalities, back then Kemi Badenoch.

For the last months I have been working on RPKI Relying Party security.

It seems that a lot of hyperboles get thrown around nowadays.

This is a follow-up to the previous blog post, which you can find here.

Lectori salutem.