Arjen Brandenburgh

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·Jan 19

We attended CodeMotion virtually with Techspire

At Techspire we value our colleagues and love to spend time with them. Unfortunately during a global pandemic there were some challenges ahead to keep doing things together and we have to be more creative. Wanting to go to a conference together was on our wishlist for quite some time…

Codemotion

5 min read

Jan 7

Start 2022 with a Crypto Creditcard

I recently came across crypto creditcards. Apparently in the United States it is pretty common to have a creditcard with cashback on it, but in Europe… not so much… I felt there was a way for me to get a “discount” on my life by using a card like this…

Cryptocurrency

5 min read

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·Feb 16, 2021

How the success of my pet project pushed me to migrate to the cloud

Sometimes I mentor developers. I always tell them this one thing they should aim for: find something you love and build a project around it with the technologies you want to master. Practise what you preach, so that is exactly what I did myself! …

Migration

6 min read

How the success of my pet project pushed me to migrate to the cloud

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·Aug 26, 2020

Stand out on GitHub with a README profile

Recently GitHub released a new feature allowing users to show a custom README on their profile page. This is a feature that GitHub was missing in community building and user exposure: to customise your profile a bit to show who you are, what you can do, and why you are…

Github

5 min read

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·Jul 21, 2020

Why you shouldn’t use Lodash

Javascript has made enormous strides the past few years and functions like find, findIndex, map, filter, and reduce are now standard. Before these innovations, when you had to work through collections or objects, the tools needed to make code cleaner and more functional were always easy to find in Lodash…

Angular

5 min read

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·Jul 13, 2020

Lazy load & split your Angular Material dialogs!

For a client we needed a dialog that contains some complex user experience flows. It basically boiled down to a wizard with multiple paths. This meant that we didn’t want the entire dialog in one huge component, but rather use separate ones to keep our components as small, atomic, reusable…

Angular

4 min read

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·May 7, 2020

Future-proof your lazy loaded images

The past two decades the internet has taken enormous leaps in what we can do, and what users want to be able to do. The technologies involved in this have evolved just as rapidly. With the increasing available bandwidth we were able to push more data over the wire than…

Java Script

2 min read

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·Apr 2, 2020

Angular 9: 5 things we did when we upgraded

During ng-conf in May 2019, the Angular team announced that they would be changing how Angular works under-the-hood: Ivy. Ivy is their new internal view rendering engine. It is the engine that uses your components and templates, and in the end, turns all the logic into instructions that run in…

Angular

4 min read

Apr 15, 2019

Angular’s PWA: SwPush and SwUpdate

Not too long ago, I wrote an article Your Angular app as Progressive Web App where I explained why Progressive Web Apps are the future of web applications. In that article I also briefly touched the Angular SwPush and SwUpdate APIs, where I also mentioned I might write an additional…

Java Script

10 min read

Apr 1, 2019

Understanding Angular’s ViewEncapsulation

In your Angular components you’re able to specify a component’s ViewEncapsulation. It defines template and style encapsulation options available for components, and thus specifies the strategy on how styles are applied to a component. By default, styles are appended to the document’s <head> and is encapsulation emulated, but there are…

Java Script

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Understanding Angular’s ViewEncapsulation