JUL 2, 2026●2 MIN READLATEST

IPXO Review: Is IPXO the worst IP company ever?

The onboarding flow with IPXO was nothing short of disastrous. I wrote this blogpost to warn people for it.

JAN 8, 2025●3 MIN READ

Let’s Put Your Space on the Map (Literally)

Added a new business model: helping museums and open spaces to create 360 videos, upload it to Google Street View as a way to connect with (future) visitors.

NOV 11, 2024●4 MIN READ

One Entity, Five Pillars: My Open-Builder Roadmap to Multi-Stream Freelancing

OCT 22, 2024●4 MIN READ

How Prefect (and a Beefy Hetzner Auction Box) Rules Our Price-Tracking Empire

AUG 15, 2024●4 MIN READ

I added four famous places to Google Street View

AUG 7, 2024●3 MIN READ

My 10-Year Fight with a White Whale

Building a profitable price tracking empire has been my white whale since 2016. Let me show you where I'm at now

JUL 27, 2024●27 MIN READ

Polaroids of my "Epic of Gilgamesh" road trip in 2024

A bunch of Polaroids of my road trip to the Middle East and Eastern Europe

JUL 27, 2024●2 MIN READ

Polaroids of my Odyssey Trip in 2023

Some of my favorite Polaroids from my road trip in Eastern Europe in 2023

JUL 14, 2024●5 MIN READ

How to sign a PDF with CAdES into ASICE with a European (Belgian) ID Card.

MAY 10, 2024●3 MIN READ

I lost all my camera gear in Iraq

Email me on lost@vandevliet.me, if you know anything about this please.

NOV 25, 2023●9 MIN READ

Building Grafiki

Open blogpost about the whole journey of building Grafiki, an app that lets you manage your ad campaigns on Quora, Snap, Pinterest, and more.

MAY 3, 2023●5 MIN READ

I Started a two-wheeled Production House

I'm starting my own motorcycle roadtrip production house.

JAN 11, 2023●1 MIN READ

Adding a custom domain to App Runner

AUG 18, 2021●2 MIN READ

Updating Github CLI with a personal access token on MacOSX

A short guide on how to get a personal access token from Github, how to add it to your terminal so you can keep git pushing all that code you wrote 👨‍💻

JUN 9, 2021●2 MIN READ

My greatest chess games

MAY 22, 2021●3 MIN READ

Guide: How to use the Walmart Affiliate API with NodeJS

MAY 21, 2021●5 MIN READ

Guide: How to use the AliExpress Affiliate API with Nodejs

Having trouble with making API requests to the AliExpress Affiliate API? In this blogpost I explain how to make API calls to the AliExpress API [including code samples!]

NOV 2, 2020●12 MIN READ

The Queen's Gambit - The final Game: Harmon vs Borgov Analysis

JUN 6, 2020●1 MIN READ

React Native logs coming from instrument.js

Get "instrument.js" as source file in your Chrome Debugger when logging things from React Native? Update your blackbox settings to fix this.

MAY 3, 2020●2 MIN READ

Making Apple Authentication work with Firebase Auth in React Native (Expo)

MAR 21, 2020●4 MIN READ

Filterlist, my second iOS app, is live - and I'm falling in love with React Native

I created the first Instagram filter discovery app! Here's how I've done it.

AUG 1, 2019●6 MIN READ

Making the Mad Men Inflation Calculator

Little insights on how I went about creating the Mad Men Inflation Calculator.

JUL 20, 2019●1 MIN READ

Adding a Belgian Bank Account to App Store Connect

How to add a Belgian Bank account to Apple Developer account in App Store Connect

DEC 7, 2018●3 MIN READ

40 euros and 111,000 video views later: using the autoresponder bot to outperform ANY Facebook ad you've ever ran

How I spent 40 euros and the autoresponder Facebook bot to amass 110k+ video views, 126k+ organic reach and 2.7k+ comments.

DEC 2, 2018●5 MIN READ

How to make a Bot that automatically responds to comments on Facebook

Want to know how to make a FB bot that auto-responds to comments? Here you go! (Including code)

APR 17, 2018●2 MIN READ

Prank calling people with Twilio

A simple guide on how you can prank call your friends and colleagues with Twilio.

MAR 3, 2018●4 MIN READ

Follow along: building an app that recognises beers 🍺

Follow me along the journey of building a mobile app that recognises different bottles of beers. This blogpost will be updated every time there is a breakthrough.

JAN 4, 2018●1 MIN READ

Scraping for the masses: How I made Scrapely, an extension that will help ANYONE to scrape Facebook, LinkedIn and other websites

Scraping. Everybody does it, but nobody likes to admit it. I've made a Chrome extension that makes it even easier to scrape. Meet Scrapely!

JAN 2, 2018●2 MIN READ

Filling 10.000s of Bol.com carts since November 2015

Overview of 2 years filling Bol.com shopping carts.