Experience

Software Engineer

YourSurprise

September 2019 – Present Zierikzee

My daily job includes improving the website, and improving software quality along the way.

Intern

YourSurprise

September 2019 – February 2020 Zierikzee

An internship where i research the relation between software testing and the quality of code.

I help the team increase software quality across the board, and introduce more tests in the code base.

Software Engineer

Ibuildings

January 2018 – January 2020 Vlissingen

Responsibilities include:

Software development
Leading tactical meetings

Intern

Ibuildings

September 2017 – January 2018 Vlissingen

During my internship I worked on the call for papers application for the Dutch PHP conference

Accomplishments

Shortest Paths Revisited, NP-Complete Problems and What To Do About Them

Coursera Apr 2019

The fourth of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on NP complete problems.

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Greedy Algorithms, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Dynamic Programming

Coursera Mar 2019

The third of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on greedy algorithms and dynamic programming.

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Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures

Coursera Feb 2019

The second of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on graphs algorithms and data structures.

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Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms

Coursera Feb 2019

The first of a four part series on algorithms, focusing on divide and conquer algorithms

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Recent Posts

When writing code, you generally want to split up the logic in to different classes. You have your controller classes which take a request, and return a response. You write value objects to represent information which is important to your application. You may write commands, command handlers, repositories and more. The most important group of classes you write are probably your services, which hold (most) of the logic of your app.

2021-11-13 3 min read

Differential serving with webpack encore

Recently we’ve been looking into differential serving. With our set up there were a few complications, so in this post i’ll share how we overcame those, and how to set up differential serving with webpack encore. If you want an explanation of what differential serving is, or how to do with with a normal webpack setup, i suggest reading this post. In our project we use webpack encore. We use a babel.

2021-06-19 4 min read

PHP needs an "unknown" type

If you are familiar with Typescript, you may know their any type. With any you can do anything. It signals that you don’t know about the actual type, and that anything goes. The following code is completely valid in Typescript. const doTheThing = (input: any) => { input + input; input.toString(); Object.keys(input).map((key) => { return input.foo[key]; }); const [one, two] = input; input(); } In Typescript 3.0 the unknown type was introduced.

2021-05-21 2 min read

Using CSS modules in react when testing with enzyme

Use CSS modules classes as selectors for your tests, and have better snapshots.

2021-04-24 2 min read

Testing Exceptions in PHPUnit

Last week i gave 10 phpunit tips. This week we’ll take a look at testing exceptions, which wasn’t covered in that post. Lets start with some example code that we will be testing. We have the Email and EmailValidator classes. Email is a value object that makes sure it is a valid email. We use the EmailValidator to make sure that the emails are only from our company. //Email.php final class Email { private function __construct( private string $email ){} public static function create(string $email): self { if (!

2021-04-09 5 min read

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