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A New Chapter (and bullet journal)

Yesterday, I chose to stop using my old journal – yes, I’m one onf those people – while there wre still a bunch of pages left into it.My excuse was that I wanted to “start a new chapter”. That symbolic and slightly wasteful gesture was inspired by events that happeend near the end of June. …

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Announcing “From App To Zip”

After a lot of deliberating, the time is finally there to announce my latest project. Say hello to From App To Zip, everyone! And while we’re at it, we’re partially retiring Joomla & More. It’s still really early days and the website looks really rudimentary and empty, but that’ll change gradually over time. If you …

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Deconstructing an SMS scam in 4 steps

This morning, I was woken up at dawn because of an IT emergency. My mother had received a text from the FOD Financiën, telling her she owed them 11,50 for which they’d sent a debt collector. She sort-of-feared that this text message was real but also expected it to be an SMS scam. You can …

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Moving Forward – or “The Next Chapter, if you like cliché post titles

Car keys? Check. The car itself? Check Fuel card? Check. Office keys? Check. SIM card? Check. Last Friday I dropped off the last of the items from my former employer. After working there for a little more than a decade, we decided to go separate ways. When two humans split up you are always wondering …

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Twitter has lost it’s charm

I am looking at my Twitter feed in Tweetdeck. Tweets fly by, and I try to distill something useful or interesting from the stream of information in the awfully blue client. Somehow, it doesn’t click. Without reading a single tweet, I decide to close the tab, and I start wondering what happened. There was a …

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I built an app that’ll help you calculate complex stuff

When I start writing this blog post, I sigh as I read the title. At the same time, I have got to accept that it really describes the app the most accurately. So, without further adue… allow me to explain. About a year ago, I was standing in a store, helping my mother decide what …

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