Building My Resume in HTML using Eleventy

In this article, I'll walk through some of the decisions I made as well as some challenges I faced along the way. The immediate benefit of building my resume with web-native technologies is that I can host my resume online! Web-native documents permit flexible layouts, enabling my resume to look good across a wide variety of browser and font sizes.

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How headless components became the future for building UI libraries

In the past few years, a new trend has emerged in React development: headless components. These are unstyled building blocks for UI development, including elements like buttons, dropdowns, and date pickers.

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Why Code Security Matters - Even in Hardened Environments

Infrastructure hardening makes applications more resilient to attacks. These measures raise the bar for attackers, making exploitation more difficult. However, they should not be seen as a silver bullet, as determined attackers can still leverage vulnerabilities in the source code.

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The Trimodal Nature of Software Engineering Salaries in the Netherlands and Europe

This article was originally written in April 2021. In July 2024, I published an updated version with more data and new observations: The Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation Revisited.

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I just tested Google vs ChatGPT search — and I’m shocked by the results

With OpenAI’s new real-time search feature, ChatGPT is positioning itself as a competitor to traditional search engines like Google. Known for its conversational responses, ChatGPT delivers real-time, contextual information without ads.

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The most effective ways to improve Core Web Vitals

Note: This document has been adapted from a 2023 blog post to reflect the latest best practices. It will be kept up to date as our guidance evolves, with major changes noted in the Change log section. Over the years, the web community has built up a wealth of web performance optimization knowledge.

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Doing support makes you a better engineer

Welcome to Product for Engineers, a newsletter created by PostHog for engineers and founders who want to build successful startups. Product engineers do support at PostHog. They log into Zendesk, respond to users, debug their issues, and ship fixes.

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Simplifying Islands Architecture – Preact

This guide is a simple walkthrough to understand how island architechture works and being able to setup your own using tools you already have around you. For a lot of devs who've worked with server rendering for a while, we kinda expected frontend tech to take a turn towards server rendering at some point in time since data fetching and processing is almost always faster on the server where you are closer to the data.

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How to successfully adopt serverless in large organizations

Volvo Group Connected Solutions’ cloud journey began approximately a decade ago. We did a replatforming when we migrated to AWS and designed and implemented our services to be cloud agnostic by deploying them in VMs. Over time, our customers came with more requirements.

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State of Cloud Security

Long-lived credentials—i.e., those that are static and do not expire—are well-known as a major cause of cloud security breaches, and they continue to be a widespread issue in cloud environments.

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