- I’m a Backend Developer working for Instant Commerce in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 on shaping the future of headless ecommerce ⚡
- I love working with NestJS and Postgres for my backends and Next.js and Tailwind CSS for my frontends. My go-to hosting solutions consist of Vercel, supabase and Hetzner Cloud, or AWS and bare metal for demanding projects.
Marc's Guide to The Netherlands
Over half a year ago I made the biggest decision of my life so far. I dropped out of university and moved to Amsterdam without really knowing what I’m putting myself into. This is my attempt to summarize all the stuff I learned and experienced so far. So welcome to my personal version of Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide. I’ll try my best to keep the post up to date and also add more content as I learn more about how this country works!...
Infrastructure with Traefik and Cloudflare
The following is a guide on how to run infrastructure with multiple applications on a single machine. It’s focussed on personal infrastructure and also what I’m using it for, but it definitely can be applied to anything. Last updated on August 26, 2022 Introduction In general we’re going to use two main tools: Traefik and Docker (and a bit of Cloudflare). Traefik is a reverse proxy and load balancer which calls itself “The Cloud Native Application Proxy”....
Security.txt in the Wild
Recently I’ve stumbled upon an interesting proposal on defining security policies called security.txt. As I’m quite interested in the security scene myself, I wondered how many websites already use a security.txt? What is a security.txt file? The security.txt is a proposed standard to define security policies on websites. It consists of a simple and machine readable format for a text file which should be placed in a well known location....