When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.

It's 2019, we've got instant messaging, real time video and Slack. So why do I have to wait three hours to see a change in a shared calendar on Office 365 appear in my Microsoft Outlook? Calendar sharing should be a solved problem nowadays, why is it still so crappy?

Apparently Microsoft is working on it since 2017: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-…. It's 2019. Why is syncing of shared calendars between tenants in Office 365 still not instant? I have to wait three (!) hours for my changes to appear...

Excited to give a meetup talk on the #awscdk this Tuesday. This tool deserves all the attention it can get. Feel free to join if you're around! meetu.ps/e/HjQWB/tdPz6/d

I can HIGHLY recommend the Team Topologies book to anyone interested in designing proper organizational structures for IT teams. It hits all the right areas in my opinion: intrinsic motivation, reduced cognitive load and team autonomy through platform engineering. Check it out!

OH: "we also do Kubernetes" youtube.com/watch?v=Kila1F…

Infected by the tweets of Xebia Jochem I just completed day 1 of the #AdventOfCode. Woohoo! Let's see if I can infect my colleagues of Skyworkz with the #AdventOfCode virus...

I've completed "1202 Program Alarm" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2019 adventofcode.com/2019/day/2 #AdventOfCode

Just bought tickets for #ChaosEngineering conference Conf42. See you on the 23rd, London!

Any Dutch people at Conf42 ?

Interesting definition of #chaosengineering by RUSSELL SMITH: deliberately practicing being wrong. We developers should not avoid risk, but make it safer to be wrong. Not only in a technical sense, but also culture wise.

If you don't want to setup and maintain a full blown #Kubernetes cluster, the #serverless compute services on #GCP might be a better solution. But which platform should you choose and why? Read about it in my blogpost. skyworkz.nl/blog/comparing…

Hi x.ai, I just embedded a calendar in my website, but the button looks pretty terrible: cdn.x.ai/app/uploads/em…. Could you improve the quality of the button? Thanks!

I recently looked into setting up a manual workflow for deploying pull requests. I gave it a try using GitHub Actions and GitHub Deployments and I'm actually really happy about the result. You can find the workflow in my latest blog post. sanderknape.com/2020/05/deploy…

This is pretty awesome 😎

168 AWS services in 2 minutes. *inhales*

The latest Terraform AWS provider made default tags generally available. In my latest blog post I share how to combine this new feature with tfsec to enforce tags as early as possible in the development process. sanderknape.com/2021/05/shift-…

Bold my phone (Pixel 5) just updated to Android 12,but now I can't enter my house anymore... Any ETA on making the app compatible with Android 12?

Voor mensen die een Android hebben en een Bold gebruiken: zet je Locatie aan. Anders krijg je een foutmelding in de app "kan geen verbinding met bluetooth maken". Misschien een tip om die foutmelding aan te passen...?

Diep respect voor alle medewerkers op #schiphol. En speciaal voor de mensen die ons hebben geholpen om onze omgeboekte vlucht te halen. Wat een ellende om daar nu in zo'n #chaos te werken. Ondankbare baan momenteel. Maar ik ben jullie in ieder geval erg dankbaar. Sterkte #helden!