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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For a lot of different reasons, I love the internet. I love it because it connects me to people I wouldn't otherwise get to know, because it gives me access to all kinds of information, because it lets me share my thoughts and creations...
It's almost October, which means we're three quarters into 2025 already. Time dilation is real when you're getting older and a year becomes an increasingly smaller portion of your life. For 2025 I set some goals for myself, which you can...
Another blog post? The second one in two days. My mind has been occupied with running lately, so much so that it got me thinking about all the things I learned from running over the last 20 years. I'm not saying I'm some sort of running...
Back in 2021 I was dipping my toes into the world of OpenBSD. A few days ago I got the itch to try OpenBSD again, mostly because I'm kind of fed up with how little control I have over security headers and such on GitHub Pages. Since I...
There are apparently two definitions of yak shaving: Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing one to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows one to solve a larger problem. and A less useful activity done consciously or...
For the past two years I've been working remotely most of the time. I sometimes go the office in Amsterdam, but I vastly prefer working from home. Being at the office is really nice for a change of scenery, working together with others,...
I am (was?) definitely addicted to my phone; I would check it every 15 minutes in hopes of seeing new content or notifications. I would aimlessly scroll through short videos, my Mastodon timeline or Reddit. I'm someone who can't let a...
Today I want to talk about my forever games. I don't mean games that never end, like Minecraft, but rather games that I keep coming back to and play in perpetuity. All of these games are the ones that will always be installed on whatever...
Two years ago I got myself my first Garmin watch, the Forerunner 255S. I bought it at a heavy discount when the 265 was released. I didn't want to spend too much money on my first Garmin as it's always a bit of a gamble switching...
Oh, my phone number. It's been with me through half a dozen phone companies, countless devices, and many different life stages. I've had this exact same number for the past 20 odd years which means it's utterly intertwined with my life....
Over the past 17 years I've been working in IT, I've had the opportunity to work in many different roles and companies. I started out as a systems administrator at a digital agency, working on ColdFusion, MS SQL, Linux and VMware. I then...
Even when you're just working a 9-to-5, you will find yourself in a negotiation sometimes. Not with a vendor, a client or a customer, but rather one with your manager about a promotion or a salary increase. These kinds of talks are often...
In the Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system there's this concept of an inbox. People often think of their inbox as just their email, but in GTD an inbox is anything where you collect things that need to be processed. If you're...
People that know me well will tell you that I'm not the most optimistic person in the world. I tend to see the negatives in things rather than the positives. I'm not proud of it of course, but it's something I've been working on for a...