Pensive Ibex
Pensive Ibex
Luk Weyens
Hi there, I’m Luk Weyens. I’m a coder with an especial interest in Clean Code, Domain Driven Design and Architecture. When not at work, I enjoy creating and solving puzzles, working out, gaming and reading. This is a collection of my thoughts and interests on these subjects.
Latest Posts
Private life I’m finally moving into the new house in about a week or so. Just finishing up building the walk-in closet and after that my girlfriend, our dogs and I will be moving into the new house! Exciting times! I’ll be happy to have...
Here’s a new post category I’ve dubbed “Here’s a thought”. These are posts that originated as an idea, which I found fun to think about and research. So… Here’s a thought, what if the gas pedal of your car worked differently? I drive a...
First of all, apologies for the lack of content here. I’ve been to Canada in September and have had some projects I’ve been working on ever since (including all the prep work for moving house). I’ll do a more detailed post on what I’ve...
A couple of weeks ago, my girlfriend had the idea to spruce up her doors. “Great!” I said, “sounds like a fun project!” At first it was just going to be a paint job, then it evolved into something more. The doors were going to be adorned...
My Framework 16 laptop arrived earlier this week and I finally had the time to put it together! I bought the DIY edition, and to be honest, I expected more DIY. The installation process was extremely smooth. I’ve setup desktop towers...
Series Sherlock FINISHED Absolutely lovely. I love the universe, I love the characters, and Benedict Cumberbatch’s and Martin Freeman’s representation of those characters are phenomenal. I guess if I had to give a point of criticism,...
I recently started a new job and found myself in the Go ecosystem. To be honest, it has been a bit of a shock. I’ve written .NET code for the past 15 years and know its ins and outs pretty well. As a language, I don’t mind writing Go...
I grew up surrounded by computers. My father is an unbelievable Amiga fanboy. We must have owned over 5 or 6 Amiga’s, The Amiga 1200 being my very own home computer and my beast of choice when it came to gaming at a young age. Everyone...
Series The Gentlemen - FINISHED - My girlfriend recommended this to me. When I saw it was directed by Guy Ritchie I knew I was on board. It’s an entertaining show with a good premise. Eric - FINISHED - About a couple that loses their...
I told myself I wanted to replay the Monkey Island games, so that I could then finish Return to Monkey Island, the 6th instalment in the series. Written by the original creator Ron Gilbert. I have played the first two games multiple...
I like the goto conference. Talks are more on an architectural level, and less about the new silver bullet out there. Companies also come talk about the pitfalls and talk about the mistakes they made along the way. Above all, I love...
I listened to the latest episode of We Can Be Weirdos where Rob Auton mentions how nice it would be when sitting on the train if you could just talk to the person next to you, get a load off your chest and just carry on with your day. It...
A friend of mine was celebrating his birthday the other day. And in preparation for it, I designed this little puzzle challenge. Basically, it’s just a closed box with a numeric lock holding its contents hidden. On the bottom of the box...
I received a new laptop at work the other day. So begins the cycle again of having to tweak every little thing to the way I like it. I’m a tinkerer and I love to play around in settings and customization screens. Heck, I’ll even hop in...
About a year and a half ago ChatGPT 3.5 was let loose, and it took the world by storm. Since then we’ve seen tremendous improvements in performance and reliability with ChatGPT 4. Not only that, but all other Generative AI tools have...