Deep dive into calculating Dutch Road Tax
Nov 29, 2024
From Curiosity to Code: How I Built a Python Script to Calculate Dutch Road Tax When I was looking for a new car, I made a list of all my options and started breaking down the costs—road tax, insurance, maintenance, and fuel usage. Every time I needed to check the cost of the road tax, I turned to the Belastingdienst’s tool. But as I went back and forth between different vehicles, I began to think, There has to be a more efficient way to calculate this. …
Learning Tmux2
Feb 24, 2021
As most of my work flow is done in the terminal, I open up a lot of terminal windows. Using i3 I can handle quite a few at a time but sometimes I have long running processes which just clutter up my screen. For example running a local Django server, it essentially runs in the background and if there is an unexpected crash you would need to look at the logs but most of the time it just takes up screen real estate without doing anything. Tmux promises to give me back full control over my screen. …
First week of FLOSS
Jan 08, 2021
My start of the year To start clean and use FOSS as much as possible, I will reinstall my laptop with Arch on the 1st of January. You can see the programs what I will install here. I would like to switch to Parabola but my WiFi card and BIOS prevents me. I could order one from a Chinese web shop for under 20 Euros, flash my BIOS and cross my fingers but I am not read for that yet. Perhaps I will make an exception to my No Buy Year for this or I would replace my laptop with one that can use 100% FOSS. Ironically one of the laptops that can run Parabola is a Macbook, version 1,1 and 1,2, due to Atheros WiFi cards. …
Moving to FLOSS apps
Jan 06, 2021
Last year I started tracking my car and motorcycles fuel economy and costs. For this I used Fuelly and their app aCar, a proprietary app from the Google Play Store. I chose this app because the website already had a bunch of data on fuel economy and cost of other vehicles. The app works alright although it does serve ads. From the reviews I can gather that they first sold a Pro version and later on switched the Pro features to a subscription model and essentially killing the previously paid features. …
Going full FOSS
Jan 02, 2021
I started using Linux full time around 4 years ago, due to it being easier to install and work with Python. I started out with Ubuntu(as most people will) and never looked back. Around 2 years ago I started looking into making my setup more geared towards me. So that my computer will work for me instead of me fighting my operating system. During that time I found Luke Smith’s channel and moved towards Arch. I really liked the simplicity and the fact that you control what is installed. …
What am I working on? Q4 2020
Nov 06, 2020
Google Professional Dev Ops Engineer Currently studying for the Dev Ops exam. Passed the Data Engineer and Cloud Architect ones in the previous months. My plan was to go through one exam every 2 months which seems like a nice pace together with work pressure. For Data Engineer and Architect there were 2 books to read which prepared you for the actual exam including some test exams. For the Dev Ops certification there are 2 books but they are on Site Reliability Engineering at Google, both interesting books but more about the concept instead of just learning facts for the exam. I am not sure which kind I like better but I will probably know if and when I pass the Dev Ops exam. …