David Baakman

When I learned Java 22 years ago, I could not know how much impact it would have on my career. At that time the language was only 3 years old (I certainly didn’t know that at that time…), but the University of Twente used it already for teaching their Object Oriented and Imperative Programming class (a lot of AWT (Swing didn’t exists yet), and Applets - that will be the future! [Read More]

“Do you really want a new hobby? Because that is what espresso at home is.” - James Hoffmann. Apparently I do, as I just bought an espresso machine, and don’t really like coffee… Twelve years ago I bought a Nespresso machine, and I’ve used that ever since. I was not really drinking that much coffee, drinking one cup every 2 weeks or so. But they stopped selling individually packaged Senseo packages, so I needed an alternative. [Read More]

Ok, for a few years I’m irritated by the following: See. When you have multiple ovens in your kitchen, it is impossible to set them to the exact same time. So, once in a while (every minute ;)), there is a period where there is discrepancy. And that irritates me. First of all you can question whether it is useful to have two clocks above each other, but that is a different story. [Read More]

After a few years, my box of sugar cubes started to become a bit empty. So, it was time to buy a new box. And this obviously means some research. It didn’t take long (hey, there are not that many options…) till I stumbled upon this claim: The smallest sugar cubes in The Netherlands (500/160 = 3.1 grams per cube). That is certainly a claim. Especially when on the same page, you can find this: [Read More]

At Jibes I was in the fortunate situation that I was provided with a top-of-the-line laptop with full rights that I could also use privately. And at Quinity I still used a regular PC at home. So, until recently, I never had to buy a private laptop (I did bought some private laptops in the past, but those were always as an ‘extra’). So, this time, I needed to buy a primary laptop for private use. [Read More]

Some time ago, we needed some new containers to store food leftovers. And we we’re at Ikea to buy - I don’t know anymore, but I’m sure it was something else :) Anyway, we bought some Ikea 365 containers. In the shop we also saw an interesting way to hang them under a kitchen shelf. Didn’t really gave to much attention, but at home, we thought: he, that might be something for us, on the shelf where we store those containers, we don’t use all the space. [Read More]

After using the same hosting provider for the weblog for 16 years, I finally switched to a new one. 16 years ago I registered the domain and got a hosting package at freerider.nl. After a few renamed and takeovers, the company is now called oxilion.nl. In the beginning everything the things they provided was exactly what I was looking for: Cheap :) Webhosting PHP + MySQL support Email A few Megabytes of storage, and 1-2 Gigabytes of traffic FTP access But, nowadays, my needs are a bit different: [Read More]

So, that migration to Medium didn’t really worked out in the end. Never got the custom domain working, and I really didn’t like the password-less-login (every time you login, you have to request a mail…) So, next attempt ;): migrating to Hugo, a static site generator. For this, I enabled Wordpress again, to install a plugin, to export all content to Markdown files that can be used with Hugo. After that, it was finding a good theme, changing a few things, fixing some encoding problems. [Read More]

After a 5-year hiatus, I ‘rebooted’ my blog… so, welcome back ;) Back in 2011, I suddenly received an invoice from my webhoster for excess data usage. Looking at the statistics, it was clear that my domain/weblog-URL was included in a list used by botnet to mass-spam. So, I received thousands and thousands of visitors (bots) that would download a complete page and try to comment on that page. This generated more than a gigabyte of traffic per day… So, quickly made the decision to take down the complete blog. [Read More]

Toen Hanny en ik zaterdag boodschappen deden, stond op ons lijstje muisjes. Het pakje thuis was bijna op, dus tsja, dan wordt het tijd voor een nieuw doosje, nietwaar? Niet zo’n moeilijke opgave zou je zeggen, maar al snel bleek dat het allemaal toch wat ingewikkelder lag. Bij de muisjes aangekomen (zelfs zonder gebruik te maken van de Appie-app…) werden we voor een groot raadsel gesteld: Waarom zijn blauwe muisjes goedkoper dan roze muisjes? [Read More]