3 things to do to prioritize new features
Prioritizing is difficult, but there are some tricks to make this easier on yourself. This post contains a few tips to make it easier to choose the next new feature.
Posted on: April 1st, 2020Blog
I write blog posts about things I find interesting, things I'm working on, or about problems I've faced with the solution I found.
Why documentation is (almost) more important than code
In this post I go over some point why documentation is (almost) more important than code for any application. If you want new people to get up to speed quickly and have them contribute quicker, you might want to document the macro, meso, and micro aspects of your application.
Posted on: February 26th, 2020
How to optimize your product without blocking progress
In this post I go over how you can optimize your product without blocking progress along the way. A lot of people can get stuck on features that might be meaningless to the product. Through data you can prioritize features and improvements, which will guide your work towards a specific goal.
Posted on: January 8th, 2020
Why is a simple script often harder to write?
Why is a simple script often harder to write? Find out why it's much more difficult to write a simple script that solves a complicated problem than writing an elaborate solution.
Posted on: October 16th, 2019
How to fix CORS headers in a single page application
In this post I'll explain how you can fix CORS headers for usage in a single page application. I give code examples with comments for Nginx and Apache.
Posted on: September 27th, 2019
Open source contributions (September 2019)
In this post I explain which open-source project I contributed to in september of 2019. It's been a very interesting month and I've learned a lot of new things.
Posted on: September 25th, 2019
My recent open source contributions (August 2019)
Recently I've been quite active with contributing to open source projects on GitHub. Find out which packages I've contributed to and which packages of my own I've been maintaining.
Posted on: August 15th, 2019
How to Pick Right Configuration File Type for Your Project
Find out which file types I use for certain scenarios and which situations suit a specific file type best. We’ll dive into JSON, YAML, XML, and dotenv.
Posted on: April 4th, 2019
How to generate a sitemap
Find out how to generate a sitemap for you website and how to submit this to Google Search Console. You can do this by hand or automatically, let me show you.
Posted on: March 29th, 2019
How I reduced the runtime of a Cronjob by 94%
We all need Cronjob for certain automation tasks, but sometimes these tasks take so long that they become a huge burden to you and your ecosystem. I had a Cronj
Posted on: April 26th, 2018
Build bridges with API based application structures
There is nothing more fun than working with API's during my work day. It's programming like any other day, but it's also so much more! It's connecting other ser
Posted on: August 12th, 2017
Improving development hiring
When applying to development jobs, you're often asked to do a coding test to prove that you know what you're doing. I think this is terrible and here are better
Posted on: January 25th, 2019
Development sprint workflows
During development sprints, you plan work that needs to be completed by the end of the sprint, and you try to leave some extra room for bugs that might occur and need to be fixed. This post describes how I plan to use time more efficiently and to keep developers focused on their task at hand during sprints.
Posted on: November 5th, 2018