As you may know, I am a great fan of SVG. I don’t think that SVG gets enough credit on the web, as a small file size, infinite resolution, declarative, next gen image format. A reason why SVG is not so popular, may be that may places that allow image…

Lately I’ve rekindled my interest in SVG. Using SVG I can declaratively create icons / diagrams / etc, in such a way that both I and the computer can read the sourcecode, and that version control systems, such as github, can easily show me the differences between files. The coverimage…

After writing about how to create AWS Lambda Layers based on pip packages, I set out to make writing lambda functions in CloudFormation a bit easier. …

AWS CloudFormation allows the use of Custom Resources. These are great if one has to do some things outside AWS (say you create a stack and you want as part of the stack also create a github repository with a bunch of access rights). In practice however I have mostly…

Update: Please note the security advice here! Update2: A better/other/newer solution, see here. TL;DR scroll down to find a CloudFormation custom resource that builds Lambda Layers based on a list of pip packages. I absolutely love CloudFormation as a tool for creating small and large items on AWS. Having code-based…

This is part 2 in the MacPy3D series. Check out the MacPy3D tag for all posts. Generally when making things in 3D, we like to talk about objects. For instance a cube, or a pyramid. When making a 3D modelling library, it therefore pays to have a very good idea…

I’ve always been the kind of person who cannot resist a good challenge, especially in programming. In addition, I’m one who likes to know what is going on, not just one to accept magic, accept bugs, accept that the computer knows better than me. People who grew up with WordPerfect…

Last week I got my new Apple Silicon Macbook Pro M1. I was very excited to do some very simple tests to see how fast python could calculate the Morton Code for a 3D case. I need this for a small project I’m working on, and I found out in…

Being Dutch, I was born on a bicycle. As a youngster, your bike is your only legal faster-than-foot way; later. I started to appreciate the fact that I never had problems parking, and even later I realised that cycling kept me in shape, and gave me lots of environmental karma…