Hey friends, my name is Vincent van der Linden and you can find me online as @vblinden. I am currently working at team.blue as a senior software engineer. This is my little corner of the web for stuff I've found important, handy, or just wanted to save. Hope you find something interesting! The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.
Posts.
- Simplicity is a feature
- Tinkerers make better engineers
- Technically proficient managers
- Do not write your own CSS framework
- Fixing the "net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED" error
- Fixing timeout when firing lots of requests with Laravel Valet
- Trusting the Laravel Valet cert
- Where are the product people?
- Starship Mission to Mars
- Implement Rigorously: The Five Step Process
- How to install AMQP on macOS
- What did you undesign?
- Deploying an application using Dokku (with HTTPS and redirects)
- Setup Let's Encrypt with Nginx
- Retrieve submodules with Git
- Never. Forget. Backups.
Projects.
- sendwich.dev
- It's a lean, developer-first transactional email service that delivers the essentials without the bloat, gimmicks, or hidden pricing tricks.
- staravatars.com
- Create beautiful space and star based avatars based on the text provided. I use this for my own projects to get rid of the boring default avatars.
- nederboard.nl
- A soundboard with snippets from all kinds of different meme videos in the Netherlands. Including classics like Helemaal knettah and Rustahg plus a dozen more!
- iloveitshipit.com
- Small and for fun soundboard of the legendary words spoken by Scott Hanselman during a .NET conference back in the day.