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Revamping my Blog with NextJS (2020)

Revamping my Blog with NextJS (2020)

Due to the current COVID crisis I had some time to start revamping my blog, focusing on achieving features that were not possible before. All while still keeping the costs to a minimum (or even free). Here I would like to explain how I achieved just this, with the focus

Create a script to deploy a container automatically with Azure Container Registry

Create a script to deploy a container automatically with Azure Container Registry

Currently I am working on a new web application that will require a server for signaling purposes. Now to run this server, I would like to utilize Azure Web Apps together with a container. Since I would like a low barrier to entry, I want to be able to run

Sampling a real-time stream

Sampling a real-time stream

A common problem when working with real-time streams is that you are unaware of the data going in there due to the vast amount of systems connected to it and producing data. Therefor it is interesting to be able to "sample" a stream, where you will connect to

Building a Minecraft Puppet Scanner with Event Hub, a NFC 522 Reader and a Raspberry PI

Building a Minecraft Puppet Scanner with Event Hub, a NFC 522 Reader and a Raspberry PI

In Belgium we every year celebrate the coming of "Sinterklaas" on the 6th of December, a celebration for children where this mythologic figure delivers presents for all the children that behaved well that year. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas for more information). To follow this tradition,

Getting Tweets of multiple people on Twitter

Getting Tweets of multiple people on Twitter

For a new project of mine, I wanted to get the different tweets of multiple people at once and save those as a CSV and JSON for further processing. But how can we do this easily in just a couple of lines? As in every project, I start by assessing

Predicting Instagram Pictures Likes and Comments with .NET Core and ML.NET

Predicting Instagram Pictures Likes and Comments with .NET Core and ML.NET

For a new fun Project, I wanted to create an Artificial Intelligence model that will allow me to predict the comments and likes of new pictures that a user can post on Instagram based on their own historical data. Luckily thanks to ML.NET which was released during build 2018,

Creating a throttled REST API Consumer

Creating a throttled REST API Consumer

A common thing in Node.js is to create a REST API consumer that will perform a REST call. Due to the rise of many REST APIs, you might find yourself in the situation that you want to execute 1000s of calls (for example: Azure Cognitive Services). Now due to