Mijndert Stuij
Mijndert Stuij
Mijndert Stuij
Hi, I'm a lead platform engineer, runner and minimalist based in The Netherlands. I'm building highly scalable, high performance infrastructure on top of AWS. I try to break free from the silo's of development and operations. I love keeping things simple.
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The best thing that happened this week This will be a long update because quite a few things happened! The best thing that happened this week is that I made another side project public this week. I created a thing that takes an RSS feed,...
RSS feeds are really great and I use them a lot for keeping up with personal blogs, corporate tech blogs and what's new at AWS. I don't think there's any other medium, apart from maybe email, that's so scalable, easy to understand and...
The best thing that happened this week A few things actually! My daughter was part of a dance show in the theme of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She did so well and it was very fun to watch. I'm a very proud dad. My post on using...
Back in 2022 I wrote about automatically generating responsive images in both JPEG and WebP formats using Hugo shortcodes. In those days, browser support for WebP was still quite spotty so we had to generate both formats and do a little...
Since this weekend it's Easter and tomorrow I'm off work, I'm posting these weeknotes a day early. Tomorrow the plan is to do absolutely no computer touching. Tomorrow I'll wake up, bring my daughter to school, go for a run, play a video...
If you haven't worked with AWS before, or at least not to that extend, you might first want to know what Service Control Policies (SCPs) are. SCPs are a type of policy that you can apply on the organization level that allow or deny...
The best thing that happened this week This week I put CalAction on the App Store! Right after it went live I soft-launched it on my social media, including LinkedIn where it got quite a bit of love. I even had the first few sales of my...
I'm very particular when it comes to software development and UI design. When working on CalAction, I wanted to make sure that the app not only provided useful features, but also had a clean user interface that's easy to navigate, and...
Some time ago my wife came to me with a problem: she wanted to import a calendar file from the Gmail app into our shared iCloud calendar. The process however was not straightforward and involved a lot of steps, including downloading the...
The best thing that happened this week I haven't shared this yet, but I'm creating an iPhone app as a side project, and this week I've been making some pretty good progress. I'm not yet ready to share what the app is about since I'm very...
The best thing that happened this week This week it was carnaval in the southern part of The Netherlands. As I'm originally coming from somewhere where they don't celebrate carnaval, I don't really celebrate it now either but my daughter...
A day late and a dollar short I suppose, but just now I remembered I got back to writing week notes. The best thing that happened this week Wednesday and Thursday I was in Amsterdam for our quartely off-site with the entire tech team. We...
The weeknotes are back after a long hiatus. I've been contemplating whether to continue (or rather restart) writing them because it didn't feel right to share all these personal things in a public space. But I think it's important to...
As someone in IT, someone who spends a lot of time thinking about systems and optimizations and data, it's easy to fall into this trap of constantly looking at your running data and trying to optimize every single angle. I get paid to...
2025 has been the year of handheld gaming for me. I haven't touched my Xbox Series X for a full year now and I can't say I miss it. The portability and convenience of the Steam Deck has completely won me over. Being able to play games...