Snowflake primary keys woes

In my work I have used Snowflake quite a lot. The so called Data Cloud is very popular. Getting started is easy.One of the issues I have with Snowflake, it’s…

Elixer and Phoenix Liveview

A car as metaphor, and featuring yet another introduction to functional programming, yet I liked reading This is the Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right? on Elixir, and Phoenix Liveview, a…

Zoekmachines, overal zoekmachines

Zoeken en vinden Wat is de overeenkomst tussen sites als Funda, Booking.com, Marktplaats, Autotrader, Gaslicht.com (en andere Bencoms), Thuisbezorgd, Independer en vele andere vergelijking-, marktplaats- en boeking-sites? Ze zijn gespecialiseerde…

Low-code en RAD

Onlangs heb ik me geregistreerd bij een van de vele crowdfunding-platforms die er inmiddels zijn, Collin Crowdfund. Inherent aan zulke platforms moet je een flow van formulieren door. Dat werkte…

Back and forth from Scala to Java

For over two years I’ve programmed nearly exclusively in Scala on the backend, while using mostly JavaScript and TypeScript on the frontend. Before that I mostly used Java for over…

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…

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…