April 10, 2025
Transcribe meetings locally using Whisper
At work, I attend a lot of meetings. Gemini is great for transcribing and summarizing discussions, but unfortunately, Dutch isn't supported yet.
Jens Segers
Full stack developer with a passion for product development & technology. Founder of SportShots.ai and Engineering manager and Solution Architect at Lighthouse.com.
December 11, 2024
ARM-Powered GitHub Action Runners using the Raspberry Pi 5
While working on a side project recently, I reached the free tier limit for GitHub Action minutes. For this project, I created multiple Docker images for the ARM architecture to be deployed as AWS Lambda functions. ...
September 28, 2019
A stateless blog with Webmentions
It happened. I have rebuilt my blog using Next.js and Markdown files. It was an opportunity to further improve my React skills and experiment with Next.js' server-side rendering. While doing this, I have decided ...
June 16, 2019
Automatically update docker images with Watchtower
Yesterday I ran across an interesting tool for Docker called Watchtower . It runs in the background and monitors your running Docker containers for images updates. If a new image is found, it pulls it and restarts ...
June 15, 2019
Decoupling releases from deploys using feature flags
So you've been working on this new amazing feature for a while now. You're ready to click the merge button and deploy to production, but your product owner is holding you back because there are still some minor ...
September 28, 2017
Speed up PhpStorm with Nyan Cat
Tired of waiting on those boring PhpStorm progress bars? Install this Nyan Cat progress bar plugin and make waiting fun again!
September 22, 2017
Goodbye controllers, hello request handlers
A lot has changed in the PHP landscape over the past years. We started using more design patterns and things like the DRY and SOLID principles. But not a lot has changed for Controllers right?
May 21, 2016
Dynamic DNS for CloudFlare with ddclient
Today I found out that ddclient added support for CloudFlare since version 3.8.2. Unfortunately, Ubuntu 14.04 ships with version 3.8.1, but I will show you how to update it.
April 29, 2016
List outdated composer packages
It has been more than a year since I opened a GitHub issue on the composer repository to propose an outdated command. It took a while, but we finally got what we asked!
April 24, 2016
Protect your server with fail2ban
Fail2ban is a must-have for every SSH-enabled server that is connected to the internet. It protects services such as SSH from illegitimate access.
March 20, 2016
Find large directories and files on Debian or Ubuntu with ncdu
Time to stop using the find command to search for large directories or files on your servers. There's a neat disk usage analyser tool called ncdu that you should definitely give a try!
February 28, 2016
Laravel SMTP driver vs. API drivers
After Mandrill changed their pricing model, I (as well as many others) started exploring different transactional email services. Laravel only supports a couple providers out of the box, but what about the others?
January 30, 2016
Running both PHP 5 and PHP 7 without wasting resources
Installing both PHP 5 and PHP 7 next to each other seems to be fairly simple. In this blog post, I will be showing you how you can free up some resources while you're transitioning to PHP 7. Here's what I did.
November 8, 2015
List outdated composer packages with Climb
Composer is really missing an "outdated" command like most of the other package managers. Luckily, the Climb package has this covered!
October 31, 2015
Clearing PHP's OPcache with CacheTool
OPcache is great, it improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory, thereby removing the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request.
