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

Stop ads from entering your home using Pi-hole

I don’t like ads and I feel no shame in admitting I use a combination of ad-blockers (uBlock) and ‘do-not-track-me’-plugins (Ghostery & Blur) in Safari. Come on, be honest; who isn’t… On the other side: sites I like get whitelisted. Easy. However with all these different devices in your household it gets a bit confusing and cumbersome to install ad-blockers on all your devices. How great would it be if you could block ads at your router?...

February 7, 2017