About
I'm a senior software engineer in Amsterdam, building software with AI agents and writing about what I learn.
I have spent most of my career across FinTech and e-commerce. These days most of my energy goes into how AI changes engineering work: what agents are good at, where they fall over in production, and what that means for how teams ship.
If your team is shipping AI-written code and figuring out what that does to reviews and testing, I would especially like to hear from you.
Projects
- Smoketest - AI-assisted E2E testing. The tests your agents don't write.
- pgvector for TypeScript - A free series on production vector search in Postgres.
Activity
The last 12 months of coding and training.
Stack
- Raycast - You will never want to go back to macOS spotlight.
- Bartender - This is the only way to manage a million menu bar icons.
- OpenWhispr - You speak 3x faster than you type.
- BetterDisplay - Best tool to manage your external monitors on Mac.
- Telegram - It is the app that I use first thing in the morning.
- Beekeeper Studio - The best SQL editor I have used.
- Visual Studio Code - I migrated back from Cursor. Sorry.
- ChatGPT Codex - My daily driver for agentic coding. I hit the rate limits most weeks.
- OrbStack - The best way to run Docker containers on macOS.
- MacBook Pro , AirPods Pro , iPhone - I'm a heavy Apple user.
Travel
My goal is to visit 30 countries by the end of 2030.
What I read
- Naval - He talks about startups, investing, and life in a philosophical way.
- Collaborative Fund - Reading Pure Independence by Morgan Housel hooked me immediately. They write about economics, markets, and investing with great storytelling.
- Farnam Street - Introduced by Naval and I have been a fan ever since. They write about mental models, decision making, and learning applicable to real life.
- Mark Manson - He writes about self improvement, philosophy, and life in an honest way.
4,000 weeks
1,370
weeks lived, 2,630 left
The average life is about 4,000 weeks. Each square is one of mine, and each row is a year.