Solution architect by day, side-project addict by night.https://vandevliet.me/https://vandevliet.me/im-mapping-all-the-madonnas-of-antwerp/https://vandevliet.me/im-mapping-all-the-madonnas-of-antwerp/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTphotographyprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/ipxo-review-is-ipxo-the-worst-ip-company-ever/https://vandevliet.me/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.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:37:43 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/lets-put-your-space-on-the-map-literally/https://vandevliet.me/lets-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. Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:59:00 GMTprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/one-entity-five-pillars-my-open-builder-roadmap-to-multi-stream-freelancing/https://vandevliet.me/one-entity-five-pillars-my-open-builder-roadmap-to-multi-stream-freelancing/The exact blueprint of my freelance ecosystem: five income streams, who they serve, how they earn, and the synergies holding them together.Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:04:00 GMTprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/how-prefect-rules-our-price-tracking-empire/https://vandevliet.me/how-prefect-rules-our-price-tracking-empire/How Prefect orchestrates millions of tracked prices across Bol.com, Walmart and beyond — and the cheap infrastructure that keeps it running.Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:19:00 GMTprijzenvolgerprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/i-added-four-famous-places-to-google-street-view/https://vandevliet.me/i-added-four-famous-places-to-google-street-view/Ur, Uruk and two other legendary places had no Street View imagery — so I strapped on a 360 camera and put them on the map myself.Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:22:44 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/my-10-year-fight-with-a-white-whale/https://vandevliet.me/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 nowWed, 07 Aug 2024 16:33:00 GMTbuildinpublicprijzenvolgerprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/polaroids-of-my-epic-of-gilgamesh-road-trip-in-2024/https://vandevliet.me/polaroids-of-my-epic-of-gilgamesh-road-trip-in-2024/A bunch of Polaroids of my road trip to the Middle East and Eastern EuropeSat, 27 Jul 2024 20:19:35 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/polaroids-odyssey-trip-eastern-europe/https://vandevliet.me/polaroids-odyssey-trip-eastern-europe/Some of my favorite Polaroids from my road trip in Eastern Europe in 2023Sat, 27 Jul 2024 15:34:12 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/how-to-sign-pdf-with-cades-asice-european-belgian-id-card/https://vandevliet.me/how-to-sign-pdf-with-cades-asice-european-belgian-id-card/Signing a PDF into .asice with a Belgian ID card is hell. After a lot of trial and error, here's the way that actually works.Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:46:58 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/i-lost-all-my-camera-gear-in-iraq/https://vandevliet.me/i-lost-all-my-camera-gear-in-iraq/Email me on lost@vandevliet.me, if you know anything about this please.Fri, 10 May 2024 07:55:00 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/building-grafiki/https://vandevliet.me/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.Sat, 25 Nov 2023 12:53:14 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/i-started-a-production-house/https://vandevliet.me/i-started-a-production-house/I'm starting my own motorcycle roadtrip production house. Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/adding-a-custom-domain-to-app-runner/https://vandevliet.me/adding-a-custom-domain-to-app-runner/AWS App Runner and custom domains don't get along until you know the five steps. Here they are, so you don't lose the afternoon I did.Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:49:59 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/updating-github-cli-with-a-personal-access-token/https://vandevliet.me/updating-github-cli-with-a-personal-access-token/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 👨‍💻Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:49:41 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/my-greatest-chess-games/https://vandevliet.me/my-greatest-chess-games/Not the highest-level chess you've ever seen, but games that made me cheer like I won the Candidates or tilt like I lost my savings at roulette.Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:47:27 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/guide-how-to-use-the-walmart-affiliate-api-with-nodejs/https://vandevliet.me/guide-how-to-use-the-walmart-affiliate-api-with-nodejs/Signed requests, keypairs, and one bumpy road from developer account to first API call — everything I wish I'd known before building Waltrack.Sat, 22 May 2021 14:35:28 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/how-to-make-aliexpress-affiliate-api-call/https://vandevliet.me/how-to-make-aliexpress-affiliate-api-call/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!]Fri, 21 May 2021 13:56:55 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/the-queens-gambit-the-final-game-harmon-vs-borgov/https://vandevliet.me/the-queens-gambit-the-final-game-harmon-vs-borgov/Beth Harmon's final game against Borgov is a real chess game. I played through it move by move to see what the show got right.Sun, 01 Nov 2020 23:58:54 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/react-native-logs-coming-from-instrument-js-add-sentry-to-your-blackbox/https://vandevliet.me/react-native-logs-coming-from-instrument-js-add-sentry-to-your-blackbox/Get "instrument.js" as source file in your Chrome Debugger when logging things from React Native? Update your blackbox settings to fix this.Sat, 06 Jun 2020 11:36:58 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/making-apple-authentication-work-with-firebase-auth-w-react-native/https://vandevliet.me/making-apple-authentication-work-with-firebase-auth-w-react-native/Apple forces Sign in with Apple once you offer Facebook login. Getting it to work with Firebase Auth in React Native cost me hours — this saves you them.Sat, 02 May 2020 23:46:18 GMTprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/second-ios-app-live-and-im-falling-in-love-with-react-native/https://vandevliet.me/second-ios-app-live-and-im-falling-in-love-with-react-native/I created the first Instagram filter discovery app! Here's how I've done it.Sat, 21 Mar 2020 18:02:43 GMTprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/making-the-mad-men-inflation-calculator/https://vandevliet.me/making-the-mad-men-inflation-calculator/Little insights on how I went about creating the Mad Men Inflation Calculator.Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:14:57 GMThttps://vandevliet.me/adding-belgian-bank-account-to-app-store-connect/https://vandevliet.me/adding-belgian-bank-account-to-app-store-connect/How to add a Belgian Bank account to Apple Developer account in App Store ConnectSat, 20 Jul 2019 14:58:25 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/40-euros-and-111-000-video-views-later/https://vandevliet.me/40-euros-and-111-000-video-views-later/How I spent 40 euros and the autoresponder Facebook bot to amass 110k+ video views, 126k+ organic reach and 2.7k+ comments.Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:28:52 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/bot-automatically-responds-comments-facebook/https://vandevliet.me/bot-automatically-responds-comments-facebook/Want to know how to make a FB bot that auto-responds to comments? Here you go! (Including code)Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:41:00 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/pranking-friends-with-twilio/https://vandevliet.me/pranking-friends-with-twilio/A simple guide on how you can prank call your friends and colleagues with Twilio.Tue, 17 Apr 2018 06:09:32 GMTcodehttps://vandevliet.me/live-building-app-recognises-beers/https://vandevliet.me/live-building-app-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.Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:53:03 GMTcodeprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/making-scrapely/https://vandevliet.me/making-scrapely/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!Wed, 03 Jan 2018 23:37:25 GMTprojectshttps://vandevliet.me/about-bol-com-rekeningopvuller/https://vandevliet.me/about-bol-com-rekeningopvuller/Overview of 2 years filling Bol.com shopping carts.Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:46:26 GMTprojects