Gerben Jacobs

Akismet doesn't cut it anymore, utilize Cloudflare against spam

📅 Feb 27, 2014 — 🧮 200 words — 🏷️ tech

Spam queue in Wordpress I have been noticing a severe drop in spam in my comment queue. I used to have to delete anywhere from 5 to 10 comments a day in the queue with just Akismet. Now there's not one comment.. 99.99% of the time. I didn't really think anything of it until I just realized why this change occurred; I had enabled Cloudflare for my blog. Cloudflare saving requests and thus MBs Cloudflare acts as somewhat of a firewall and CDN in one, it blocks malicious requests and serves cached versions of your blog/site/resources.

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Road trip to Scandinavia 2013 - Part III

📅 Nov 28, 2013 — 🧮 1426 words — 🏷️ personal scandinavia-2013

Day 6: Preikestolen Preikestolen is one of Norway's famous touristtrapslocations, it's a hiking trail that ends at the Preikestolen (Pulpit/Preacher's Chair), a slab of rock hanging over the Lysefjord fjord. There's also the Trolltunga (Devil's Tongue) east of Bergen, which is similar just a lot smaller. But we didn't go there. Preikestolen We had planned the entire day for our trip to the Preikestolen. It had been advertised as a serious achievement, and we weren't that familiar with such hikes.

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Road trip to Scandinavia 2013 - Part II

📅 Nov 27, 2013 — 🧮 1372 words — 🏷️ personal scandinavia-2013

Day 3: Løkken and Hjørring The next day we drove to the seaside town of Løkken, famous for its candy store and beaches. We arrived early in the afternoon and parked at a big parking lot, for beachgoers. First up; the beach of course. Walked to the beach through the dunes Lovely composition of colours This beach is also famous for its World War II bunkers part of the Atlantic Wall and we could see them in the distance.

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Road trip to Scandinavia 2013 - Part I

📅 Nov 26, 2013 — 🧮 1183 words — 🏷️ personal scandinavia-2013

Our road trip to Scandinavia I've been wanting to visit Scandinavia for quite a while, I've been to many European countries (Great-Britain, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Austria) but never to one of the nordic ones. At a previous internship 2 co-workers of mine have been there and they were absolutely loving it, especially Norway. If you asked me in february where I'd go, I would have probably said the Garda lake in Italy.

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SocialSpace at ESTEC in Noordwijk

📅 Oct 8, 2013 — 🧮 1190 words — 🏷️ personal

A day worth's of swag! Yesterday I went to the open day at ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Centre) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This is the ESA (European Space Agency) facility that houses most of the technology research and project development. I'm not even sure what it was anymore, but they have some rooms and utilties over there that even make NASA jealous! However.. I wasn't just at the open day, I was actually invited for the #SocialSpace event hosted by @social4space together with these tweeps.

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The problem(s) with Open Data

📅 Sep 17, 2013 — 🧮 1556 words — 🏷️ tech

To put this blog post into context; this is written by a 25-year-old developer who uses the Dutch open data (https://data.overheid.nl) and doesn't like to read too much. I rather hack tutorials than read specs and I code stuff for the use of the public, i.e.: data needs to accommodate to the common people. With that out of the way and allowing you to see this from my perspective here goes; the biggest problem(s) with Open Data.

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Hi!

I’m a 35-year-old software engineer from The Netherlands. My interests lie with (web)development, databases, design patterns, social media, communities, APIs and open data.

More about me, including links to other online services, can be found at gerben.dev