Action shots of @Ropdebeeck presenting the results of his DINF@VUB SoftwareLanguagesLab MsC thesis on “Inter-procedural Graph-based API Misuse Detection” at the BENEVOL 2019 workshop. Presentation abstract: soft.vub.ac.be/benevol2019/pa…

Congratulations to all 2018-2019 DINF@VUB computer science alumni who received their degree at Friday’s official graduation ceremony! Do stay in touch! Those who could not make it can find a copy of the graduation speech by Ruben Opdebeeck and Jens Van der Plas online: youtu.be/5KBKgRU4qIc

Video of Ruben Opdebeeck on "Does Infrastructure as Code Adhere to Semantic Versioning? An Analysis of Ansible Role Evolution" #scam2020 youtube.com/watch?v=RrVnpJ… Pre-print at soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Camilo Velázquez Rodríguez @oniroi of SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB secoassist

In case you missed my lightning talk on "The Pitfalls of Ansible's Variables and Template Expressions" at #CONFLANG2021, you'll find the full talk at youtu.be/OX5oVHlrFRY joint work w/ @oniroi of SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB

Pre-print 4 MSR 2025 "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?" by Ruben Opdebeeck Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover of SoftwareLanguagesLab. Short answer: for Red Hat Ansible, yes! Graph-based, quantifying indirections soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2…

Action shots of Ruben Opdebeeck presenting "Helm Charts for Kubernetes Applications: Evolution, Outdatedness and Security Risks" at MSR 2025 2023. Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… #kubernetes #helm #security #iac

More shots of Ruben Opdebeeck at @msrconf23. This time answering "Control and Data Flow in Security Smell Detection for Infrastructure as Code: Is It Worth the Effort?" For Ansible, yes! Joint work w/ Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover. Pre-print soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… #ansible #security #iac

Action shots of Ruben Opdebeeck presenting "The Docker Hub Image Inheritance Network: Construction and Empirical Insights" at IEEE SCAM Conference. Pre-print: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… Joint work w/ Jonas Lesy, Ahmed Zerouali Coen De Roover of SoftwareLanguagesLab DINF@VUB.

A little birdie shared these action shots of Ruben Opdebeeck with me. He’s presenting a summary of our MSR23 paper on Ansible security smell detection at the BENEVOL in Nijmegen. Full paper: soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2… Have fun everyone! Wish I could attend too.