I build things
& ride far.

I'm Jelle — solution architect by day, serial side-project starter by night. When the laptop closes, the motorcycle starts: From the homebase in Antwerp, Belgium to Ukraine, Turkiye, Iran, and Iraq and all the potholes in between.

27+countries by bike

29logbook entries

IPXO Review: Is IPXO the worst IP company ever?

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Mad Men inflation calculator

draw a 1960s amount, get 2026 dollars

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

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

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

I added four famous places to Google Street View

My 10-Year Fight with a White Whale

Tito's grave in Belgrado

Wild Camping at Lake Adana in Turkiye

Ur, Iraq

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

Polaroids of my Odyssey Trip in 2023

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

I lost all my camera gear in Iraq

Building Grafiki

On the way to Izmir, Turkiye

I Started a two-wheeled Production House

Adding a custom domain to App Runner

Zoroastroism temple in Yazd, Iran

Survived the Israeli drone strike on Esfahan!

Updating Github CLI with a personal access token on MacOSX

Visiting the city of Gilgamesh -- Uruk

My greatest chess games

My favourite Soviet mosaic in Lviv

The Necropolis of Iran, near Shiraz

First day on Iranian soil and this man already helped me out a bunch

A Russian, Korean, Kuwaiti and a Belgian walk into a bar...

Guide: How to use the Walmart Affiliate API with NodeJS

Guide: How to use the AliExpress Affiliate API with Nodejs

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

Adding Ur to Google Streetview

React Native logs coming from instrument.js

Mollabashi House in Esfahan

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

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

Making the Mad Men Inflation Calculator

Adding a Belgian Bank Account to App Store Connect

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

A brutalist statue. I love this style a lot

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

Prank calling people with Twilio

Follow along: building an app that recognises beers 🍺

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

Filling 10.000s of Bol.com carts since November 2015