Encrypt your disks
If you have a laptop, you should always encrypt your harddisk. If you have not already done, make this your new year’s resolution – better yet, do it today. Loosing…
Author: gerbrand
Using Swagger to access your secured api
Swagger is a great way make your api accessible. Not only documentation is provided, but your users, your co-developers or your self can try out your api. But what if…
Purging files from Git history
Most developers, like me, use Git for versioning. Even for personal projects, it’s great to have a history of files available. Deleting a file in git will cause it to…
Programming education and smart contracts
While looking browsing at Quora I found this posting by a professor in New Zealand on why certain programming languages are taught at universities while being suboptimal for teaching. Reminds…
Cobol in nodejs
Cobol can be compiled into Javascript and you can call Javascript from Cobol, as I read in this article on arstechnica. Will this finally be the way out for all…
OpenGrok, make your code searchable
Any organization that develops software has a lot of software around that could be potentially reused. Reusing software is of course a good thing. Serendipity, accidentally coming across useful code…
Five applications based blockchain
Bitcoin’s only some weird digital money, interesting to cypherpunks only? With nearly all financial institutions investigating or investing in Bitcoin-related technologies I guess the answer is obvious. But does Bitcoin…
Bunq, Dutch startup with banking license
A Dutch start-up has a banking licence: Bunq. According to their blog they use Object-Oriented PHP as language of choice, which get me more worried than excited. Nevertheless, quite cool that a…
Cluster at home
When I was a student I had old desktop computer in running in the closet which acted as a server. The server hosted my homepage, email-domain, fileserver and sort of…
Scala Days 2015 Amsterdam
Two weeks ago I visited Scala Days 2015, in Amsterdam. The conference was great, with a lot of high level content. Sessions I visited. I’ve attempted to order them by…