Hi, I'm Emile 👋
Software engineer and team lead with 25+ years of experience building products, growing teams, and improving delivery.
I offer hands-on development, leadership, coaching, and mentoring. See about, clients, and services.
I'm also building bouwtel.nl (construction industry innovationlab) and digitaalgoed.nl (support for NGOs).
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2026
Independent IT advice for good causes
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Copilot vs Claude vs ChatGPT, without the hype
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Teaching a construction company to actually use Copilot
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When a fix at one company becomes a group-wide rollout
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Untangling the tender process in construction
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Running OCI/Docker images on Sprite.dev
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Deepseeks 3FS' FUSE hackery is super interesting
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StarGZ fast docker snapshotter is low-key magic
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On mourning the craft
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Gow - Simple compile on save, live reload for go web applications
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Age of good-enough-ism
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I went to Bali and all I got was Chikungunya
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Getting to ramen profitability in 2026 by lowering my standards (even lower!)
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Whoopsie, guess I'm LLMs little b*tch now
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2019
GraphQL protocols will be presented at GraphQL Meetup Montreal!
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Build Craft CMS sites easy and fast with Craft CMS Kit
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The tiniest, very cute, ruby graphQL microservice Setup
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Get to know the Fediverse fast with the awesome-fediverse
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Request API tokens easily with the GraphQL token request protocol
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Introducing GraphQL-protocols for federation!
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Unfortunate reasons for going back on Facebook
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2018
We just launched our new product Supercraft!
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Why access and API tokens are the new passwords but worse
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Build a static site with Jekyll and Docker Multistage Builds
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New to code? Here's the ultimate guide to asking tech questions without feeling awkward!
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Simple sites with Middleman and Docker Multistage Builds
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Fast and easy docker builds with the simplest 'git push' workflow
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Things I wished I knew before I started with Kubernetes
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Wanna be a CKA? Let's learn for the kubernetes certified administrator exam together!
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2017
Sup! Git, got you down? Sign up for 'Train the Team #4 - How to win at Git with GitHub'
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Holy crap! The ruby GraphQL hackathon was awesome!
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Want to learn ES6 and Babel? Join me for 'Train The Team #3 - Intro to ES6
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Want to learn ReactJS? Join me for 'Train The Team #2 - Intro to ReactJS'
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It's live! Come and join us on the GraphQL hack day the 25th of August in Amsterdam!
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Free tech coaching for you and your team
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We're organizing a graphql-ruby hackathon in Amsterdam
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Why the greatest frameworks are extractions
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2013
How to forward calls from the internet to your local machine using SSH
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Why you should learn to code
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How the ruby debugger Byebug works with TracePoint API
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How it works: Docker
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How to create a portable minimal Ubuntu distro
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How to create a native gem for ruby using C
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Understand Docker better by doing LXC from scratch
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Cook servers with Takeout and chef
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2009
Content deployment prime still frustratingly buggy
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STSADM or any assembly loading terribly slow behind firewall or vpc & vmware
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Storing files externally in MOSS
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Are you choosing the most efficient way for your SharePoint solutions a look at CRM 4.0 and SharePoint
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SharePoint designer workflow WSP packager source code released
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SDP workflow packer source release and why I am a bit quiet
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2008
Common reasons why corporate Intranet implementations fail
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Meet me at Office Devcon 2008 in Sydney
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Sharepoint internals happiness
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Beta SPD workflow export utility on CodePlex
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Packaging and reusing sharepoint designer workflows - Part 2
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Packaging and reusing SharePoint designer workflows - Part 1
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Happy 2008, y'all!
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2007
Using sharepoint sites regional settings as your UICulture for WCM presence sites
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Exporting lists for features programmatically using SolGen API and reflection
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Sharepoint designer workflow association STSADM repair command
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Customized layouts folder on site collection basis
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Developer awareness and the bad reputation of SharePoint Designer
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External storage API for WSS, opening the door for CAS and HSM storage?
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Getting started with WCM - Part 1
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Upcoming WCM series
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The role of MOSS in an large scale ECM environment - Part 2
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Back from France and back for business
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The role of MOSS in an ECM enviroment
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Looking for more SharePoint gurus
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Bdc writing to BDC using GenericInvoker
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Created BDC toolkit project on codeplex
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BDC general tips on intergrating your external data
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I passed 70-542!
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Hurray, I passed 70-542!