Blog

Since the end of 2010 I have been maintaining my own personal tech blog. Originally, its main purpose was to supply additional (and mostly practical) information to my research in addition to my papers. After I left academia, I kept writing about mostly software deployment related subjects (typically using solutions from the Nix project), but expanded my blog coverage to other subjects as well.

The entry page of my blog can be visited by opening the following link: blog.

Currently, I am using the all kinds of labels to organize all relevant subjects. Use the links below to filter my blog on the corresponding topics:

Research

academia: Thoughts about academic culture
PDS: All work that was carried out for the Pull Deployment of Services (PDS) project funded by NWO/Jacquard
research: Blog posts that are the result or an ingredient of a research paper or thesis

General topics

annual-reflection: Annual reflections that I typically do the day before new year's eve
developer-culture: About the non-technical aspects of software development, such as people, processes
teaching: Anything teaching related: finding good explanation recipes for technical topics and teaching itself

Software deployment

deployment: Anything related to the topic: software deployment, including tools and concepts
Nix: Anything that is related to the Nix project, including sister projects and applications of Nix. Blog posts with this label also appear on NixOS Planet
Docker: Anything related to Docker
Disnix: Anything related to Disnix, such as development aspects and applications
Dysnomia: Anything related to the development of Dysnomia
Hydra: Anything related to Hydra: the Nix-based continuous integration service
NPM: Anything related to the NPM package manager
composer: Anything related to the PHP composer package manager
node2nix: Blog posts related to the development of node2nix
composer2nix: Blog posts related to the development of composer2nix

General technology domains

concepts: General development concepts
FLOSS: Blog posts about free, libre and open source software fundamentals
history: Blog posts about ancient technologies
mobileapps: Anything related to mobile applications for phones and tablets
process-management: Anything related to managing processes on operating system level
web-technology: Everything web technology related, such as protocols and front-end development

Specific technologies

Amiga: Anything related to the Commodore Amiga
Android: Anything Android related
CBM: Anything related to 8-bit Commodore machines, including the 64 and 128
dotNET: Anything related to .NET technologies, such as the runtime and programming languages
iOS: Anything iOS related: development, iPhone, iPad etc.
NodeJS: Anything Node.js related
Titanium: Anything Appcelerator Titanium related