I just spent a day upgrading the server that hosts this blog. As a one-man team, I pride myself on maintaining a secure setup where automatic updates are installed every night. Even if a restart is required, the services reboot Read more…
My old setup was a dual boot desktop with Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10. Ubuntu is mainly for the great support for development tools like Docker and I used it because my production systems run in Linux. As a gamer Read more…
To review Interreflections we need to understand Peter Joseph. He is a filmmaker but also the creator of the zeitgeist movement. For better or worse, Peter has played a major influence on the way I look at society. In hindsight, Read more…
So, we all saw the presentation by Rich Harris, the creator of the Svelte Javascript compiler, and are excited about implementing spreadsheet reactivity in our projects. However, even though the concept is easy to grasp when looking at simple examples Read more…
There are many javascript libraries that give a lot of functionality out of the box which we normally include with a <script src=”url”></script> in the header section of the HTML page. In this article, we explain a method to do Read more…
For my new architecture with microservices and Svelte, a vital implementation detail is the authentication and authorization mechanisms. In the last article, there was an example of how to build the signup component and in this example, we take a Read more…
In this article, we see how our team implemented pathfinding in the Unreal Engine 4 for the upcoming tower defense game MassMonsterMaze. Besides using the default navigation meshes of the Unreal engine we implemented an A* algorithm in blueprints and Read more…
Running tasks asynchronous is becoming vital for any large web application. An example, on which I worked, is a Facebook-like activity stream for Open Social (Drupal 8). Imagine that a personal notification based on a relation, rank, and gender has Read more…
Een Nederlandse versie kan je hier vinden The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) is gaining traction on the whole political sphere. The central concept is that every citizen gets a monthly allowance that is above the poverty line Read more…
Symfony 4 and the API Platform Framework make it easy to create an API application with basic CRUD operations. However, in real-world applications more advanced features (e.g. authentication and custom endpoints) are needed which require quite a bit of knowledge Read more…
When trying to master a new field it is difficult to find the right direction and resources from which to learn. I set out to learn more about the science of learning and teaching in order to create a tool Read more…
This post is aimed to learn lessons from the “Peak: Secrets from the New Science Of Expertise” by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool that we can apply to improve an education tool that I am building for the last year. Read more…
For some people, it is important to have an explicit moral compass and have a set of heuristics that can guide you through life. They want to do things that are good and that have meaning. Thinking is hard work Read more…
Following the documentation of API Platform, we start with an API that accepts the multipart/form-data format. We use Sapper (Node.js+Express) as an API gateway. First, we need to send a local file from Svelte to the Sapper server. Sapper then Read more…
This research investigates the use of sentiment analysis technologies to extract affective states of users from text. A dataset of text annotated on affect by human raters was needed to test the affect detection algorithms. No such dataset was available, Read more…
For my master thesis in “human media interaction” at the University of Twente, I worked on applying sentiment analysis technologies to emotion detection in online communities. I am proud of this work which took 10 months of programming and writing Read more…