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I just realized I never posted about the “life changing event” that occurred April 1st on this blog. To quickly recap: as of April 2014 I became CEO, Sole Proprietor and Sanitary Manager of Caelum, a software product company that produces Zed. The business model that I cooked up is experimental: everything is…

As you may remember, I changed jobs at the beginning of the year and now work at LogicBlox, a very exciting company that aims to change the way software is developed by making it much more declarative using the LogicBlox smart database. Until last week, only customers and…

It’s been quiet around the Zed editor project for a while, but over the past days I’ve put some time into it again. As it turns out, I ended using it less and less over time. The reason is simple: it was too much hassle to get started editing files. The procedure always consisted of cloning the Zed…

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I’ve been playing a little bit with ZFS, Oracle’s (previously Sun’s) next-generation file system. Originally developed for Solaris, but since it’s open source also ported to Linux (as of 0.6.1 considered…

After a few years of doing zero Clojure hacking, recently I’ve picked up a side project in Clojure again. Rather than using my usual editors to edit Clojure code, I chose to go the all-in hardcore Lisp route: Emacs with Paredit (I followed these instructions to set it…

In a previous post I described how Nix could be used to easily set up a development environment without the use of virtual machines alternatives like Vagrant require. As an example I used setting up a development environment for a simple…

I remember my first day at Cloud9 IDE well. It was very similar to my first day Technical University of Delft as a PhD student, and my first day at LogicBlox: a day spent on installing a bunch of software, tweaking configuration files, environment…

I received my Geeksphone Peak Firefox OS Developer device today. Firefox OS consists of two core parts:

1. Boot2Gecko, which is essentially a Gecko rendering engine stapled on top of the Linux (Android)…

Tim O’Reilly received his Google Glass preview in the mail. From his G+ post:

I just got my Google Glass last night, and it’s been a long time since a tech gadget has had me grinning ear to ear so often. I was at the Tech4Dem event, and…

Rik Arends, my former boss at Cloud9 launched a pretty cool product yesterday: traceGL. It’s a trace debugger for node.js and browser JavaScript code. I asked him some questions about it on InfoQ.