Personal

Everything I've written about Personal over the years, from quick fixes to deeper dives.

101 posts on Personal.

2026-09

2026-09-29 Data is the application

2026-06

2026-06-09 AI is a confidence booster
2026-06-01 More time to think

2026-02

2026-02-11 My interview on Oh Dear on the Seahawk Podcast

2025-12

2025-12-28 A fresh server for this blog

2020-09

2020-09-16 A new start for DNS Spy

2020-08

2020-08-20 I like big fonts and I cannot lie

2020-07

2020-06

2020-06-11 Want to improve? Add a delay
2020-06-09 How do we find users for our SaaS?

2020-04

2020-04-29 How I write and curate the cron.weekly newsletter
2020-04-21 Looking for guest-writers on this blog!
2020-04-20 Creators vs Consumers

2020-03

2020-02

2020-02-05 Why I'm open sourcing the financial side of my business

2020-01

2020-01-31 Accepting new sponsorships for the cron.weekly newsletter

2019-12

2019-12-01 cron.weekly is coming back!

2019-11

2019-11-06 A fresh new look for this site

2019-09

2019-09-16 Announcing Status Pages for the Oh Dear monitoring service

2019-08

2019-08-13 Time for Change: Going Independent

2019-05

2019-05-27 Some useful changes to the Oh Dear! monitoring service

2019-02

2019-02-28 Showing the DNS score in your dashboard & an updated layout

2018-11

2018-11-19 A big update to DNS Spy – DNS Spy Blog

2018-09

2018-09-11 Indie Hackers interview with Oh Dear!

2018-02

2018-02-24 Announcing “Oh Dear!”: a new innovative tool to monitor your websites

2018-01

2018-01-13 I’m taking a break from cron.weekly

2017-10

2017-10-31 Fall cleaning: shutting down some of my projects
2017-10-06 Antwerp WordPress User Group offering public speaking course

2017-09

2017-09-21 Why we’ve cancelled our free tier – DNS Spy Blog
2017-09-10 Coming soon: Oh Dear! – Monitoring for the encrypted web

2017-08

2017-08-29 Release Notes Driven Development (RNDD)

2017-07

2017-07-11 Launching the cron.weekly forum

2017-04

2017-04-19 DNS Spy has launched!

2017-03

2017-03-01 DNS Spy enters public beta

2017-02

2017-02-07 Review: Ubiquiti's Amplifi HD, mesh WiFi networking done right?

2017-01

2017-01-29 A change of RSS feeds
2017-01-18 Starting with sponsorships for this blog

2016-12

2016-12-31 In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news

2016-10

2016-10-18 From MailChimp to Sendy: how I saved 600$ a year

2016-07

2016-07-26 Why do we automate?
2016-07-25 A new website layout, focussed on speed and simplicity

2016-01

2016-01-31 A clean mailing list browser, focussing on readability
2016-01-25 Coming soon: SysCast
2016-01-05 Introducing cron.weekly, a new weekly newsletter for Linux sysadmins
2016-01-04 Review: Google Chromecast 2

2015-07

2015-07-20 The Worst Possible DevOps Advice
2015-07-17 My Apple Watch Review

2015-06

2015-06-16 Kickstarter Now Available In Belgium

2015-04

2015-04-03 Hosting Superheroes
2015-04-01 µPuppet & Ensible

2015-03

2015-03-31 Obsessive Efficiency Disorder
2015-03-22 Life Without Ops

2015-02

2015-02-02 Fosdem 2015 Notes

2015-01

2015-01-29 My Fosdem 2015 Schedule
2015-01-25 The PHP Paradox
2015-01-24 PHP Benelux 2015 Unconference Schedule Saturday
2015-01-23 PHP Benelux 2015: Day One
2015-01-18 The Frontpage of Hacker News: Stats, Graphs & Some Analysis
2015-01-18 A good week for this blog!
2015-01-11 Audi’s Cruise Control “>=” Bug

2014-12

2014-12-30 The 2014 Blog in Numbers
2014-12-03 Automating the Unknown

2014-11

2014-11-29 Devuan, the Debian Fork

2014-10

2014-10-12 You Need Passion

2011-12

2011-12-29 2011: An overview of projects & popular blogposts

2011-08

2011-08-28 This is what Open Source is about: Mobile Zabbix used on Hospital Ship
2011-08-28 Post-it wars at the office: Mario & Princess Peach
2011-08-21 4 days without an iPhone
2011-08-19 Pukkelpop: overzicht van de chaos

2010-12

2010-12-31 2010 in numbers: statistics, statistics & statistics

2010-07

2010-07-30 System Administrator Appreciation Day 2010 @ Nucleus

2010-05

2010-05-30 Selling A Classic Mini British Open (Special Edition)

2009-08

2009-08-28 Define Happiness: The Act Of Making Someone Else Happy

2009-07

2009-07-31 System Administrator Appreciation Day @ Nucleus = Win
2009-07-30 Why We Deserve Our System Administration Appreciation Day
2009-07-12 “Schools Kill Creativity”, by Ken Robinson

2009-02

2009-02-02 There’s No Such Thing As Unlimited

2008-10

2008-10-31 You No Take Brains!
2008-10-28 Widgets, Gadgets, … You Can Keep’m!
2008-10-22 Web Seminars – The Good And The Bad
2008-10-17 Hardware Testing: Randomly Play “Fur Elise”
2008-10-13 We Don’t Have To Talk In Riddles
2008-10-07 Using Google As Your Dictionary?
2008-10-01 How To Bypass Windows 98’s Security System

2008-09

2008-09-30 Restyling – For Better Or For Worse
2008-09-27 Comics Related To IT/Programming
2008-09-25 When A RegEx Goes Bad – For Cisco
2008-09-10 Projects Page (Finally) Updated

2008-08

2008-08-22 New Boyscouts Website Launched
2008-08-21 All Your Base Are Belong To Us
2008-08-19 Why Programming Is Less Rewarding Than Designing

2008-07

2008-07-18 How We Save The Day, But Receive No Glory For It

2008-06

2008-06-22 Ajax’s death struggle?
2008-06-05 It doesn’t take words to be cruel
2008-06-02 Pimp my S710
2008-06-01 Yarr!