As a developer, I’m able to create a solution for the tiny annoyances that I encounter while using my android phone. One of those annoyances is the “read it later” functionality. Sometimes a smartphone is not enough to read a long article or watch an interesting video while commuting. There are a couple of dedicated apps out there to read thing later, like Pocket. They allow you to save a web page or video to an external system and you can read it on your phone using the app or on their website.
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We’re one month in, I guess it’s time for an update: it’s not easy. There are way more things that contain sugar than you would expect. You wanted a wiener schnitzel? Sorry, there’s sugar in the bread-coating. Kroepoek? Sorry, sugar. Ham? Sorry, sugar. Sometimes you’re lucky and you can find a brand that doesn’t contain come kind of sugar, but you have to search and be careful.
The good news is, I completely quit soda and energy drinks.
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I’m one of those people who makes resolutions for the new year. I’m also one of those people who rarely makes it past the end of January. And yet, I’m giving it another shot in 2015. I’m even going for a double this year: one ‘professional’, one personal.
Let’s talk about the ‘professional’ resolution first. I have a couple of active pet projects at any given time. Unfortunately, that’s all they ever are, pet projects.
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OK, let’s get this blog off the ground and in the air!
Welcome!
Let’s kick off with some personal background first. I’m Thomas, I live in Gent in Belgium and I’m a software developer at Acquia. This blog is a side project of mine that serves as a technology demo for a lot of stuff.
As a start, I’ll probably open up the source of this blog. It’s written in Go and runs on Google App Engine.
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