social stuff

๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ IndigoX 2019

Last month on the 28th IndigoX happened in Utrecht. It is the “Dutch Game Gardenโ€™s largest game showcase” for indie video game development. The 28th was also the move in date for a new flat rental. I attended for the first time and now i’m reporting back from behind the friendly lines!

Attendee playing Project Beckon
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๐Ÿง™โ€ Helping People

I have been meaning to continue my technical article series for like, weeks now. Have the content. Did the math. But when I sit to start writing, my mind wonders to other places. FML. Oh well, todays episode is about helping people.

Help
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๐ŸŽฎ Raising Kratos

Last night I got home, had some dinner and watched the Raising Kratos documentary on Youtube. What happened next will surprise you.

God Of War
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๐Ÿง International Thinking Outside The Box Day

During my daily morning ritual of finding a matching pair of socks, I had a post-shower thought! I am hereby declaring August 12, International Thinking Outside The Socks, I mean, Box Day. Let me explain.

Socks Pile
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๐ŸŽฎ Get some Rage 2 Overdrive!

Recently got Rage 2 for the PS4 Pro.

Combat and environment is nuts, hope they sort out the bugs!

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๐Ÿ” Designing an end-to-end encrypted CI/CD pipeline with Keybase.io

I recently relaunched my website with Hugo, Gitlab.com and AWS services. But now, I want encrypted source code all the way from my laptop to deployment. No trust required on Cloud services for privacy! Is it possible ? Let us over-engineer some shit!

Keybase.io
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๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Game development communities in the Netherlands

Earlier this year i was looking for game developer communities here in Amsterdam. So i put my Pikachu detective hat on and this is what i found out.

Dutch Game Garden
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๐Ÿš€ Commit -am 'first second post'

I’m from the region of Porto, Portugal. The beautiful city of Vila Nova de Gaia. This is the second reboot of my website :-)

I started my career as a full-time programmer in early 2000s. At that time, I joined the IT lab of a factory. In the following 4 years, i learned SAP ABAP, Java/PHP web programming, MySQL, Postgresql. Started utilizing Linux for personal and professional reasons. Life was good! I have much to thank the IT director (and mentor) from which i learned a lot!

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Deploying Frontend web applications with Containers

The runtime of client-side web applications is the client-side web browser. Configuration is hard-coded in the Javascript source code. So, deploying containerized client-side web applications requires a different configuration strategy. At the Docker Randstad meetup i talked about containerisation and deployment best practices.......

My first talk! Presented TweetIRC at London Ajax JSMiniConf

Although nervous and terrified, I talked about TweetIRC. It was an arguably successful solo Node Knockout entry that used Dojo and Node.js to create a hybrid Twitter and IRC client. Slideshare deck here. My solo team was Celestial Being. With 2L of coffee and a computer, the sky is the limit: Creative cocktail of IRC channel metaphor with Twitter streams blended with a retro dojo front end. how much leverage are you getting from node? great job! - Jim Goets I self boasting much ? Maybeeeee !......