Notion meets Alfred

Powerful combination of 2 great apps According to the Alfred usage statics on average I have used Alfred 16.5 times a day. A staggering 24874 times since 31st December 2016 (The day I got this Macbook). Since I am now fully into Notion I though it would be great if both powerful apps can be combined. Turns out - as always - I am not the first one with this thought and with this great explanation it was super easy to setup....

February 15, 2021

HomePod mini - Finally here

4 Months of waiting I think they were announced somewhere in October and now 4 months later I finally got my hands on 2 HomePod minis. In short: they are absolutely great value for the money and I can really recommend them, especially if you are already deep in the ‘Apple ecosystem’. After trying them out in different rooms (where they all sound great) I ended up putting them both in the living room & kitchen....

January 30, 2021

Booklist 2021

Books I have read this year or are still on my todo-list January (re-read) The 4-hour workweek / Tim Ferriss - ✅ A Promised Land / Barack Obama - 📖 The Magic of Thinking Big / David Schwartz - ✅ No Excuses!: The Power of self-discipline for success in your life / Brian Tracy - ✅ Unfu*k Yourself / Gary John Bishop - ✅ February How to Change Your Mind / Michael Pollan - ✅ The First 20 Hours / Josh Kaufman - ✅ Start with Why / Simon Sinek - ✅ March Leaders Eat Last / Simon Sinek - ✅ (re-read) 7 Principles For Making Marriage Work / John M....

January 11, 2021

Trying out Notion

What is Notion and why try it out? Notion has been around for a couple years already. It’s an all-in-one workspace where you can write, plan, collaborate and get organized - “it allows you to take notes, add tasks, manage projects etc”. It’s also one of the fastest growing productivity apps available on many platforms and this of course sparked my interests. The common idea is a bit that it’s very easy nowadays to ‘collect stuff’ but it’s getting increasingly more difficult to find it so you can actually do something with it....

January 7, 2021

Downgrade Unifi Controller from 6.0.xx to 5.14.23

UPDATE 2/4/2021: I adjusted my configuration so that upgrading to 6.x would not cause any issues anymore. Read more on how to upgrade the Unifi Controller manually on your Raspberry Pi Please don’t update your Unifi controller to 6.0.xx You will lose a couple great features that might mess up your network. Especially if you used the setup guide by The Hook Up. Think your VLAN settings for your WLAN and WLAN override configurations....

December 10, 2020

Podcast: 13 Minutes to the Moon

Season 1: The Apollo 11 story (rating 10/10) This awesome podcast is about ‘How the first moon landing was saved. The story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen’ In the first 10 episodes you hear snippets of the last 13 minutes of the conversation with the Astronauts. In the final 11th episode you hear the full 13 minutes without interruptions which you can now completely follow dus to the prior episodes....

October 21, 2020

Booklist 2020

Books I have read this year or are still on my todo-list Measure What Matters / John Doerr - ✅ Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love / Marty Cagan - ❌ (will have to try in 2021) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck / Mark Manson - ✅ The Power of Habit / Chalres Dunigg - ✅ The Magic of Thinking Big / David Schwartz - ❌ (will have to try in 2021) The Lean Startup / Eric Ries - ✅ ...

October 19, 2020

Bug Reporting

If you work in a company selling products digitally everyone needs to learn how to properly debug before reporting a bug/issue to the incident managers or the platform-/dev-team. It happens way too often that a bug is sort of thrown over the fence. Reporter: “Hey Carlo, I cannot perform {INSERT ACTION HERE}, it’s not working as how I expected it to work, please investigate…" OK… now what? Before I jump into ‘investigation-mode’ I would need at the minimum the following questions answered: The most important one of all is on Reproducability: can you tell me how I can reproduce it on my machine?...

October 13, 2020

Allianz Direct - The first year.

Checkout the Story of Allianz Direct. In the first year we launched the new brand in NL & DE. One harmonized customer experience built on top of cutting edge technology to ensure we are the most efficient insurer....

October 7, 2020

Allianz Direct - Made by us.

Together with the experts we are developing brand new digital experiences with the latest technologies and insights. Introducing -> Allianz Direct. We are reimagining the insurance business....

October 11, 2019