Projects

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.

Projects

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

If you’ve spent any time on tech Twitter, you probably know levels.io (Pieter Levels). In his bio, he has this legendary, completely transparent breakdown of all his different independent projects and income streams. As an entrepreneur and a creator, that "open builder" philosophy resonates with me deeply. My

Prijzenvolger

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

I've talked multiple times about my goal to build a price-tracking empire. What started as a single, fragile app back in 2016 has evolved into a multi-region, multi-store data operation. But when you're dealing with millions of products across Bol.com, Walmart, and beyond, your code can quickly turn into

I added four famous places to Google Street View

You might have seen a Google Street View car like in the picture above. These cars drive around all over the place, capturing their surroundings in 360 degrees with that big camera on top of the vehicle. Those images then get added to Google Maps, and these are part of

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

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

Polaroids of my Odyssey Trip in 2023

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

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

A week ago I had to sign a PDF into .asice, and it was hell. My Belgian id card didn't seem to be able to sign in CAdES/PAdES/XAdES or whatever *AdES format. But after a lot of trial and error I got it working with my Belgian ID

I lost all my camera gear in Iraq

Email me on [email protected], if you know anything about this please.

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.

Projects

I Started a two-wheeled Production House

I'm starting my own motorcycle roadtrip production house.

Adding a custom domain to App Runner

Ok, this took me a while to figure out. Let's keep it short and to the point: How  you add a custom domain to App Runner in 5 steps 1. Move the DNS of your domain to Route 53. Yes, I tried it with Cloudflare but I didn't get it

Code

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 👨‍💻

My greatest chess games

I thought it would be fun to create an overview of my best chess games here. These are not the highest level games you've ever seen, but they've either made me cheer like I just won the Candidates tournament or tilt like I lost my life savings at roulette. Who

Code

Guide: How to use the Walmart Affiliate API with NodeJS

As I explained in my post "On Making Price Trackers [https://vandevliet.me/on-making-price-trackers/]", I prefer to only make a price tracker for a shop if it has an API for me. And luckily, Walmart has one [https://walmart.io], so I decided to build Waltrack.net [https://waltrack.net]

Code

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!]

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

I spent the last 3 days binging The Queen's Gambit on Netflix. It's a drama about an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon and her quest to become the world's greatest chess player. Spoilers ahead! In the final episode Beth plays against her arch nemesis, the Soviet chess player Borgov.

Code

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.

Projects

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

For Filterlist, my iOS app to discover Instagram filters, I recently implemented Facebook authentication. Apple requires you to also implement Apple Authentication when you use other 3rd party auth providers. I wasted/invested some hours to get it working, and here's what helped. To be honest, I still haven't managed

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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.

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Reddit NSFW Unsubscriber

I created a tool that allows you to one-click unsub from NSFW subreddits, to make your Reddit experience a little bit more wholesome!

Screen Templates For Surface Hub Whiteboard

If you like drawing wireframes on the Microsoft Surface Hub Whiteboard, these screens may come in handy. Longpress on a screen to bring up the menu, and save it to the desktop (If you copy-paste it, there seems to be a black background). Then in the Whiteboard app on the

Making the Mad Men Inflation Calculator

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

Projects

Mad Men Inflation Calculator

So how filthy rich were Don Draper and Roger Sterling exactly? If you're like me and you're constantly calculating what sixties dollars would be worth in 2019, this one's for you!

Code

Adding a Belgian Bank Account to App Store Connect

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