Only a few people in the world get to create one famous piece of software. A guy called Linus Torvalds created two that are used every day by millions of people: Linux, and git. What is […]
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Al sinds het najaar van 2025 heeft de computerindustrie last van stijgende geheugenprijzen. Vooral RAM, dus het werkgeheugen, is enorm in prijs gestegen. Maar ook opslag in de vorm van zowel SSDs als ook HDDs en […]
I’ve long wanted to build my own point cloud viewer. While CloudCompare is my daily driver, I would also like something that I can extend and run algorithms in. I’ve previously taken a look at Unity, […]
One peculiarity of Rust is its Result type. In many other programming languages, you’ll probably use a bool or int to indicate successful function execution. If you’re new to Rust and take a look at Rust code, you’ll […]
Despite a history with Linux that reaches back more than 25 years, Windows is my main desktop operating system – partly because having been in corporate environments where I was force to use it, partly because […]
All images sourced from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. What is a workstation? Wikipedia’s definition starts with A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by a single […]
Het is een bijverschijnsel van ouder worden dat je vaker terugdenkt aan vroeger. Dus toen ik recent een nieuwe rekencomputer aan het samenstellen was, moest ik terugdenken aan mijn eerste PC. Deze heb ik in 1993 […]
After first investigating Rust superficially some time ago, I’ve now started to really use it. As I’ve written before, my programming background is C/C++, Fortran, C#, and more recently Python. With that experience, some things about […]
So far, all my data processing pipelines required manual intervention or were tied together with batch/shell scripts. In most cases, I had to copy batch scripts to the folder where they had to process data, and […]