On August 17th 2004 my firstborn son Gerard passed away suddenly at the age of 17. This text will remain where ever I have a website in rememberance of him.
Git submodules
May 08, 2021
Last week I was talking to a colleague about how a certain problem that could be solved using git submodule bascically mounting a git repository into another git repository. As an example I showed how this blog uses it for the theme.
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Home automation setup
Oct 20, 2020
Several people have been asking me lately to describe my home automation. This is a start of it. I dont have the idea I am doing something special, but it if helps them.
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I became a Grandpa
Jul 09, 2019
Today I became a grandpa for the first time. Logan Gerard Smits is born. I am so incredibly happy for Carmen and Coen. If there are people that will be great parents it’s those two.
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Kotlin extensions
Apr 04, 2019
Extensions are a very powerful mechanism to extend functionality on a class. As a lot of classes in the java eco system are closed for (easy) adding functionality. The extension system of Kotlin makes it easy.
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