Nation of Positivity

28 oktober 2024

Bij Nation of Positivity vind je veel kleine leuke cadeautjes. Allemaal gepersonaliseerd en bedoeld om jouw positiviteit aan iemand anders te geven.

Velen van jullie hebben de afgelopen jaren al een klein extraatje van mij gekregen. Ze waren altijd zelfgemaakt, gepersonaliseerd, uniek voor jou. Het was leuk om de soms wat verbaasde, maar altijd vooral heel dankbare reacties te zien. Want we hoeven niet allemaal een raket naar Mars te lanceren. Soms begint een beetje positiviteit gewoon bij jou en mij.

Met Nation of Positivity bied ik mijn atelier en mijn eigen werk aan in een kleine online shop; mijn bescheiden initiatief, mijn spreekwoordelijke duit in het zakje. Met liefde gemaakt om met heel veel liefde te kunnen geven. Samen zorgen we voor een beetje meer positiviteit in de wereld.

The Virtue of Technology Agnosticism

2 october 2024

When I tell people that I am technology agnostic, they open their eyes a little bit more. Usually something along the lines of: “But Christophe, you’ve been programming longer than I’ve been alive, you have more hardware devices in your home than I’ve ever heard of, and your personal software development library contains books older than some papyrus in the museum of ancient history. How on earth can you, of all people, be technology agnostic?”
And, you know, the problem is, they are right, in a way.

Enderman

28 september 2024

Why? Because the Enderman can! 😇

My son, like many sons (and daughters) loves Minecraft. He especially likes the Enderman. When he wanted to use the character as a base for a school project, but couldn’t find a model to start from, we started brainstorming.

Getijden

17 september 2024

Deze getijden app, maakt de informatie gepubliceerd door het "Agentschap Maritieme Dienstverlening en Kust" bruikbaar voor je persoonlijke digitale kalender.

Leadership 101

16 september 2024

Why do I believe I'm a good team lead? Of course I do, because if I didn't, why would I pursue a role that is so fundamental to people, that can make or break the work of others?! So, how did I come up with this new direction for the next professional chapter in my life? And why does it involve leadership?

Holiday Mode

27 august 2024

As a consulting nomad, I’m confronted with two kinds of holiday: the one most of us have, a break from the busyness at work, and the in-between-clients periods. And they serve different purposes...

B/C Art

25 august 2024

Ever since I designed and had my concrete house constructed, I wanted to create some personal concrete art pieces. So, as usual, it took a few years before I allowed myself some time to start working on it.

50 Shades of Ceremony

19 august 2024

This is the third instalment in a triptych about me being a software architect. After the what and the why, this time I show how I deal with software architecture.

Artware City

30 june 2024

Welcome to Artware City! Stroll down Memory Lane, right onto Hard Disk Drive.
35 years of hardware suddenly became a city full of memories.

Problem Seeker

26 june 2024

In a second part of my series of articles on my life as a software architect, I dive into the foundations that define the problem seeker I am. After the "what?", I now explore the "why?".

Super Mario Question Mark Block

20 april 2024

Nobody knows what’s inside the Super Mario Question Mark Block… until you open it!

Resin in Wood Coasters

14 march 2024

V for Vendetta? No, V for a Very important Queen V. Birthdays are a great excuse to experiment with new materials and techniques: Resin in wood!

Hosted Flasks

13 march 2024

I have several small Flask apps, which don't use a lot of resources. For some time I'm enjoying the hosting services of Render. Their free tier is great, but (understandably) "free instances will spin down with inactivity, which can delay requests by 50 seconds or more.". Their web service pricing is more than reasonable, yet coughing up $7/month for each single little Flask app is a bit too much. So, with Hosted Flasks I can simply bring them all together on a single web service, which doesn't spin down.

BPMN Tools

5 may 2023

BPMN Tools enables the generation of BPMN diagrams from Python. It provides an object model and several layouting options, aswell as abstracted builders.

Let me Learn

29 april 2023

Toen Quizlet grotendeels betalend werd, en dochterlief enkele belangrijke toetsen in het verschiet had, was er maar één ding dat ik kon doen...
"Let me Learn!" is een online/web toepassinkje dat toelaat om op verschillende manieren begrippen/woorden/... te oefenen, leren en te testen.
Want wat je zelf implementeert... 😇

Baseweb Demo

26 november 2022

Baseweb is my little bit of Python serving a lot of Vuetify goodness, all rolled up in a little Python Module. The baseweb-demo repository contains a "demo implementation", showing off many of baseweb's features.

OAuth ToolKit

15 october 2022

OAuth is a standard and OAuthToolKit is my minimal implementation of some aspects of it.
NOTE: The demo app doesn't use nor store any personal information in any way! Just the token is validated by the API.

Wooden Globe

4 september 2022

The world is never enough for best of friends. Still, this combination of wood and eva foam will have to do.

I, Software Architect

5 april 2021

"Hey, Christophe, what do you do?" I get the question rather often. The most correct answer, "I'm a Software Architect", benefits from a little more explanation, both for most non-IT friends and some colleagues 😇. This article is the first in a series of articles on my life as a software architect.

How I Feel

22 february 2021

Putting the dot on the i of micro social network.
Share your mood with who you want and how you want. And nothing more.
How I Feel began as a "Let me show you in one hour what software development really is about." and turned out to be much more...

Series 4 De-Atomizer

17 september 2021

A boy in black needs a decent weapon, and I need less excuses to build a true Series 4 De-Atomizer.

Padel Racket

27 august 2021

If padel rackets are basically made out of eva foam, this must be an ace for my dear old friend.

Baseweb

5 february 2020

Baseweb is my little bit of Python serving a lot of Vuetify goodness, all rolled up in a little Python Module.

PyPi Template

29 october 2018

To manage the Python modules I maintain, I created PyPi Template, a set of templates to generate project/module-related files using a high level of convention. Because I want to focus on the module, not its maintenance 😇 PyPi Template provides a single setup to develop, test, document and publish Python modules.

Pokemon Christmas Lights

3 december 2017

In december 2017 I joined in a Secret Santa event, organised by Henk Reickaert, amongst others known for his fun making endeavours in the Koterij.

No Excuses

13 november 2017

While visiting an exposition on and discussing the intersection of design, technology and care in the home, I found myself once again confronted with this thing that has been bothering me on and off for quite some time now.

C3PO Luisterbox

1 june 2017

In het kader van het C3PO - Collaborative City Co-design PlatfOrm contacteerde Studio Dott mij voor de ontwikkeling van een interactieve luisterbox.

EZRPi

10 march 2017

The EZRPi is a Raspberry Pi HAT, carrying a Silicon Labs EZR32 Sub-GHz wireless microcontroller (MCU), that adds subGHz radio capabilities to the RPi.

Fri3d Badge

15 august 2016

In 2014 Anthony and I hacked together the first edition of Fri3d Camp, a family-friendly hacker camp. Two years later, we did it again, now with a team of 8 great, like-minded souls. Besides being in charge of organising the content, I also took on the job to design and produce a custom Arduino badge for every one of the 299+1 attendees.

Inspection Robot

1 september 2015

In 2015 I was contracted by a very large industrial/pharmaceutical company to design and implement a solution for their QA team to be able to inspect certain locations in their factory that were very hard to reach. The combination of a height restriction of about 12cm and the need to be able to carry a sensor on a rotating arm were challenging.

Revisiting Higher Education

1 june 2013

Having decided to return to full-time studying presented me with an incredible opportunity to make a personal evaluation of our education system and academic institute. In the end, there are few of us - aged 40 and attending courses full-time.