Recently I migrate my blog to Ghost. There are several reasons, but mostly it's driven by having access to an easy way to schedule and write posts. Hugo, in combination with Cloudflare pages is a nice combination, if one is working a lot in git and GitHub. Unfortunately…
Why does it feel like everything is moving to a subscription? Think of your music collection, television via streaming services, and watching a movie, or playing a game? More and more there are offerings to get access to these media via a subscription service. And even if you buy something,…
As mentioned in earlier posts, I do own a Holocubic or Holo from FiberPunk. This 'system' is basically a small lcd screen, with an esp32. This system comes by default with a (limited) firmware, that allows one to view stl files. So, just some limited functionality. Having been…
Year over year the (computer) systems we work with, are becoming faster and faster. Still the software doesn’t give the feeling that the speed increases. And worse, when hardware isn’t upgraded quickly enough the system will become slower. We all know the great new feeling of a new…
This is the eternal discussion, should services be functionally named, or given abstract, possible descriptive, names? Personally, I think that (micro)services should be given abstract names. From experience I do see that it has quite some advantages, which I will try to illustrate with simple examples. 1. It frees…