Automate the creation of a NOTICE.md file

When working on a project that’s being distributed you are often required to create a NOTICE file giving the necessary attribution to work you rely on. As written on the Apache site on this topic: If the Work includes a “NOTICE” text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in at least one of the following places: within a NOTICE text file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear. Read more →

Twenty years in the business

It has been twenty years already! Twenty years since I started my professional career. Of course, I had some side-gigs during college and a couple of internships, but I’m not counting those. After graduating in January 2005, my first real job started on February 1st, 2005, as a software engineer at Ordina, a large consultancy company in the Netherlands. Over the years I’ve had the privilege to work with quite a few awesome persons, work on great projects and doing stuff I always dreamed of. Read more →

Create an SDK using OpenAPI specs

It’s not something a lot of people need to do on a regular basis, but when you do, you don’t want to spend a lot of time doing it. I’m referring to the process of “create an SDK for your APIs”. When your service is exposing endpoints for your consumers to use, it’s easy to refer them to using raw endpoints and let them figure out how to deal with it based on the Open API specifications (formerly known as Swagger) provided. Read more →

Create your own Knowledge Base with Copilot Studio

I like creating complex solutions for simple problems just as much as every other engineer. That’s why I have dozens of side-projects going on where I’m trying out stuff. During my day job, I try to provide as much value to the customer/business with the most simple, most performant and cheapest solution I can think of. That’s where Copilot Studio comes into play. You’ve probably read a ton of posts and articles about bring-your-own-data, RAG, finetuning LLMs, etc. Read more →

Comments are now in GitHub via giscus

I’ve been having issues with Disqus for a while now. Comments weren’t always placed under the correct post and I’ve done some extensive troubleshooting on it, invoking the Disqus API to resolve, added custom (meta) header fields on the pages. So far, I haven’t been able to fix it on all posts so have been looking for another system to facilitate adding comments to the posts. This blog is a static website, created via Hugo, so no databases, only Markdown. Read more →