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Ideas and notes on security, UX topics, work, nerdy deep dives, and sport challenges.

Illustration of the Antwerp 10 Miles route for the 40th edition

40th edition of the Antwerp 10 Miles

Finally got a bib for the 40th Antwerp 10 Miles and aiming for a PR ten years after my first start.

Jelle De Laender

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iMac 5K running a Debian headless kiosk status dashboard in the office.

How to turn an end-of-life iMac 5K into a Debian dashboard system

Repurposing an unsupported iMac into a headless Debian kiosk with automation and hardening.

Jelle De Laender

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My personal tips for working from home

My personal tips for working from home

Remote working and working from home are completely two different concepts. Remote working is working from home, but also coworking spaces…

Jelle De Laender

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Image Source: CultOfMac.com

Apple Watch Workout with smart workout training plan

I started running couple of years ago now. I’m running mostly for fun, to clear my head, work on my condition and train for events like…

Jelle De Laender

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Third page to get account downgraded — Dropbox.com

How to downgrade or cancel your Dropbox account

After moving all my photos from Adobe Lightroom, with Dropbox as cloud storage to sync and backup, to Apple’s iCloud and Photos, there was…

Jelle De Laender

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Source: Apple.com

Enabling 2FA on your (not primary) Apple Developer Account

2FA on a secondary Apple Developer Account — not primary account. Simple steps to get it working again

Jelle De Laender

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Installing SSD on Mac Mini for dual drive and installing Jenkins on macOS

Installing SSD on Mac Mini for dual drive and installing Jenkins on macOS

Getting the SSD in our Mac Mini 2011, fixing Jenkins after upgrading to High Sierra that deleted our Jenkins user

Jelle De Laender

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How do you manage your notes? Evernote, Apple Notes, Bear?

How do you manage your notes? Evernote, Apple Notes, Bear?

Quick review and story why I switched from Evernote to Apple Notes for my personal notes and brainstorms.

Jelle De Laender

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Migrating from a VPS with MySQL to AWS RDS, using AWS DMS

A small recap about our experience while migrating an old MySQL server to AWS RDS by using AWS DMS, and point of actions.

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Photo by Dmytriy Kravchenko on Unsplash

Adobe doesn’t want me as a customer…

We’ve discontinued your plan. You can not use Typekit for these sites any longer, unless you have a CC plan.

Jelle De Laender

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First Runkeeper application for Apple Watch. Source: Runkeeper.com

Runkeeper versus Workout activities on Apple Watch

If I can trust the iPhone Activity application, I started tracking my workouts in Augustus 2013. Mostly running workouts.

Jelle De Laender Updated

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