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309 from 6 Sep 2006 to 9 Sep 2026
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2026 10

  1. 5 Whys
  2. 2FA is dead, it just doesn't know it yet
  3. Actionable Security is Missing on the EU Horizon
  4. Belgian politicians would rather risk treason charges than trust engineers
  5. European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies
  6. Belgian Corruption Perception is Getting Worse
  7. No more certificates for non-HTTPS purposes
  8. Ban on DeepSeek will subvert Belgian Digital Sovereignty
  9. In Praise of Busyness
  10. Security fixes are wasteful bugs

2025 25

  1. On Word
  2. On the internet, living a double life is harder than it was before
  3. What do Ursula von der Leyen and Putin have in common?
  4. Rentio sucks for renters and divides the society
  5. Self-Hosting Email is Possible
  6. A new state of state
  7. EU Digital Identity Wallet goes against your right to own a mobile phone
  8. Flow is Considered Harmful
  9. The imminent death of HTTP/1.1 and its risks are not fully understood
  10. Loss of Digital Sovereignty via Multi-Factor Authentication
  11. The Curvy Cucumber of DNS4EU and How to Do it Right Next Time
  12. Looking for a European alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git itself
  13. The Hobbyist Internet is the Amateur Radio of XXI century
  14. European IT industry can be revived only via regulation
  15. The pointless churn of SHA1 deprecation
  16. Structured communication for every minute
  17. There will be no "European Cloud" as you understand it
  18. Did I say that the validation of the Belgian National Number is easy?
  19. What about the Belgian Digital Sovereignty?
  20. Sans contrefaçon, je suis chevalier d'Éon
  21. 2FA or not 2FA
  22. Resume vs Curriculum Vitae
  23. Adaptive delivery for websites: a forgotten concept
  24. What have we forgotten
  25. Falsehoods people believe about email

2024 5

  1. Hetzher vs AWS
  2. PHP must die
  3. The strange origin of ISO20022 abbreviations
  4. Belgian diplomatic mail goes straight to NSA, right?
  5. The curse of Active Directory

2023 5

  1. The Worst Kind of Programmer
  2. On coding interviews
  3. On the winning strategy in a core team
  4. Monitoring Belgian smart meters P1 port using RRDTool
  5. What do to if your website was marked as malicious by an antivirus or security vendor?

2021 4

  1. How to do a healthcheck in a Docker image without curl?
  2. Using parametric equalizer with software mixer in alsa
  3. Enable .local domain name resolution on Arch Linux
  4. Enable audio on Rock64 with 5.11.4-1-ARCH

2020 2

  1. Composition and fading in French
  2. How to render a tree like an HTML table: in a HTML page

2018 2

  1. Несколько историй про подпольных программистов
  2. I went googleless on my phone

2017 4

  1. How to make a copy of an Eclipse update site
  2. Рецепт каши от Саши
  3. My fight for the best title to your story
  4. Forget fast boot times. fast wake-up and network up is what matters

2016 2

  1. Brussels Airlines mails go to Spam folder
  2. A programmer's joke

2015 10

  1. SWIFT vs. the progress
  2. Size matters
  3. Software Archeology with git
  4. How Lenovo, Dell, HP and Fujitsu messed up with their most lucrative clients for 1½ years
  5. How to detect bad web design
  6. Zen layout demystified
  7. The European Commission repeats the mistake of the '09 Microsoft deal
  8. Forget Gmail filters, let Google sort your inbox using Machine Learning algorithms
  9. Quick notes on running MacOS X, NetBSD and Windows 7 together under KVM on Linux
  10. Data-mining users in a screenful of code

2014 18

  1. A subtle allusion to the f-word in Microsoft's EU coding week banners
  2. All permutations of a string for the teacher's sake
  3. Yet another…
  4. Reducing the size of the codebase by 20 or 30 times is possible, I've done it… twice.
  5. How to coerce your team into creating branches and tags while using Subversion
  6. Don't know how to repair an Italian car? Call your woman for help!
  7. Block trolls by cookie, not by IP
  8. Processing csv reports from your KBC Online Banking: just use awk, dude!
  9. Dutch is loosing to English as the second most used language in Brussels region
  10. Facebook says, Ukraine is 81.25% Russian-speaking
  11. Ansible playbook for a smallish and very simple Drupal cluster
  12. An incomplete inventory of ways to share code among Drupal initegrators
  13. Googless Calendar
  14. Read more
  15. A small firewall of China
  16. Hosting Drupal on bare metal vs. cloud (Acquia)
  17. Notes on setting up Debian with ChromeOS kernel on a SD card plugged into Samsung ARM Chromebook
  18. One account. To rule them all.

2013 16

  1. How to backup to an external disk once it is plugged in
  2. Convert a git repository from submodules to subtrees
  3. Faster Mysql dump and restore
  4. OK… Here's another way to add random signatures to Gmail. Now using Google Apps Script.
  5. On the usefulness of Akoma Ntoso
  6. How to add random fortune cookies to Gmail signatures
  7. The first rule of IT support is…
  8. Manager, the IT guy is looking at his shoes and mumbling not because he is intravert…
  9. 3 disruptive technologies that will change policymaking
  10. An engineer's dream job comes true…
  11. When EU institutions write about opensource… it reads like a good joke
  12. A visual argument against mass-market CRM software
  13. How the European Commission disrespects its own cookies directive
  14. An example of project management workflow
  15. How screen resolutions changed over the past 7 years — it's not the mobile revolution, dude
  16. Yes, she did!

2012 26

  1. The single most important interview question recruiters never ask is…
  2. Neelie Kroes hacked… EU-Azerbaijan relations
  3. Something interesting about the EU budget
  4. How much of the EU bugdet goes into the salaries of EU officials?
  5. What EU officials are the best paid? The ombudsman office really stands out!
  6. Headcount of EU institutions: the Commission beats them all!
  7. Yet another WTF, now from VIES
  8. Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 image_attach to imagefield migration
  9. Belgium is last in the "Right to Information Rating"
  10. Doing Business 2013: same lies on Belgium as in 2011
  11. FairSearch.org tries to persuade EU decision-makers to crack down on Google
  12. Made in China: where great design meets unskilled workforce
  13. Не вращайте айтишников
  14. Заказные на статьи на Слешдоте
  15. Software industry has tools and processes to help transparency in law and policymaking
  16. Laws distributed under a version control system… almost
  17. Yet another epic failure
  18. Turn any computer into a 3G router in fixnum minutes
  19. А я походу Сирию от интернета отрубил ;-)
  20. Applying conceptual analysis to space data
  21. Better MySQL output formatting: what a life saver!
  22. How to block Tor exit nodes from accessing your website
  23. "Independent", "impartial", "european"… professional journalism
  24. Опаньки…
  25. О вреде Test-Driven Development
  26. Подписался на Spotify Premium по наводке, заплатил 10 евро…

2011 9

  1. The continuation of the HTC saga
  2. Sorry state of HTC hardware and warranty support
  3. I am a Mobile Viking now
  4. Everything you can not do with a Windows Phone 7
  5. Saving the private notebook
  6. Liars, big liars and risk managers
  7. ESA fingerprint?
  8. Об автокреслах, волнах ненависти в интернете, экономистах и производителях
  9. What's the most important event on the most popular belgian catalogue of leisure activities on Jan, 1?

2010 45

  1. Индекс свободы слова
  2. Lies, damn lies and the World Bank
  3. Automatically switch between internal and external screens when using a laptop and a dock station
  4. Mplayer package with VDPAU support on Debian Lenny
  5. Переврали всё, что можно
  6. О стереотипах в кино
  7. Omnipresent Loyalty Protection & Control strikes in America!
  8. Tell me, Sodexo, tell me, Accor, where those unused 7 mln € go each year?
  9. "The Science of Timekeeping"
  10. Sur l'importance des majuscules
  11. The Belgium Root CA homepage ran with an expired SSL certificate for well over a year, now
  12. Definition: disgraceful degradation
  13. There are more house cleaning jobs in Belgium than IT jobs
  14. Controversial popularity of Belgian music and films
  15. Automated Focus Extraction for Question Answering over Topic Maps
  16. Intervat or Fight agains the electronic windmills
  17. Беларусь — марская дзяржава!
  18. Справа по борту бесплатный вайфай!
  19. Create a public poll service with eID authentication for Belgians
  20. Job Architect. Helping companies write job ads
  21. Use version control software for lawmaking processes
  22. Write a useable FP7 proposal collaboration tool
  23. A old but still useable phpbb2drupal conversion script
  24. Вот так вот фламандофоны сражаются за свой язык
  25. Learning foci for Question Answering over Topic Maps
  26. A case for XTM 3.0
  27. 1 emacs
  28. .bashrc
  29. .Xresources
  30. 4 vimrc
  31. .ctwmrc
  32. Debian Etch on a Dell 6400 (E1505)
  33. Некоторые методы автоматического анализа естественного языка, используемые в промышленных продуктах
  34. Сэмюел Бекетт. В Ожидании Годо
  35. Buying a computer mouse in Minsk
  36. Occasional XSLT for Experienced Software Developers
  37. О мнимой неправдоподобности технологических прорывов (Полная версия)
  38. О кажущейся неправдоподобности технологических прорывов
  39. Первая работа — как первая любовь
  40. The Java.net resource runs Drupal, haha!
  41. Куда деть колонки в условиях хронического недостатка рабочего места?
  42. A beautiful filter for SSH brute-force attacks for your admiration
  43. А в Кении Гоблинов-Пучковых оказывается пруд пруди
  44. Простейший сниффер TCP и UDP трафика в три строчки
  45. How to return a custom mime type from a Rails application

2009 35

  1. «Viewgraphs», a new eupemism for «PowerPoint sildes»
  2. A quote from the SysML 1.1 specification
  3. And these people will teach us how to work…
  4. When the state spams their citizens, what shall we expect from criminals?
  5. UML in Color
  6. Квота на евреев в американских университетах
  7. There is still room for standards in IT
  8. Read more
  9. The dual role of the middle management (do not underestimate the art of manipulating the boss)
  10. Осадочек остался ©
  11. Business intelligence for dummies
  12. Switching on and off the external screen on an HP 6910p with Radeon X2300
  13. Почему я не люблю Микрософт?
  14. An executive summary on the state of art in Coreference Resolution
  15. Executive summary on the state of the art in Semantic Role Labelling
  16. Когда глобализация не работает
  17. Today's windows BSOD in the main shopping street of Singapore
  18. Какой будет Беларусь лет через тридцать правления Лукашенко?
  19. Apple as the new evil empire
  20. Encrypting root on an existing Debian lenny installation
  21. The good, the bad, the worst
  22. Коррупция в цивилизованном обществе. Что русским и не снилось.
  23. How to fix the scientific evaluation process in conferences
  24. On problems that plague the relationships between developers and business clients
  25. Вы кто по политическим убеждениям?
  26. Монетизация кармы для рядового участника у Слэшдота
  27. Report on (successfully) installing Samsung SCX-2160 MFP on Debian Lenny
  28. How to prosecute for posession of paedophilic images and video?
  29. They even can not share well...
  30. К вопросу о технологическом прогрессе
  31. Новая идея измерения хабрасилы, кармы и т.д. от Пола Грэма
  32. Об азах экономики
  33. The pitfalls of the part-time business in Belgium
  34. A first-hand account of a DDOS attack mitigation
  35. В лицо дует SYN_RECV с силой в один мегабит в секунду, невозможно дышать.

2008 48

  1. How to check if you outgrew your VPS plan?
  2. Bye-bye, Yahoo!
  3. La diminution des tirages des journaux à l'époque de l'internet: un exemple concret.
  4. "Свинья везде грязь найдёт"
  5. How to expose a web application through Apache
  6. [Mission Impossible] Contacter le service des équivalences de la Communauté Française de Belgique
  7. Word vs. LaTeX в наукообразных конференциях
  8. Yet another ideal project management tool
  9. Yet another cinephilic pass-time in Belgium
  10. Лучшие фото фотосайта на рабочем столе, дубль 3
  11. HP 6910p usability review
  12. Programmers learning from philosophers
  13. А защищается ли Россия от киберблокады?
  14. A personal milestone in worldwide FLOSS adoption progress
  15. Read more
  16. VAT number validation for EU-based companies
  17. A programme for a touristic trip around Belgium
  18. The other big obstacle to Ruby's adoption is ActiveRecord
  19. Как учат космонавтов или "Азбука выживания в космосе"
  20. What are the options for project management software?
  21. А в Минске-то интели орудовали, не иначе.
  22. Cinema as the source of mnemonic identifiers
  23. Галопам па гістарычным помнікам
  24. Explore your Windows LAN from Linux
  25. The best ever comparative review of the Ajax libraries
  26. Tutorial on NetBSD 4.0 i386 setup in kvm.
  27. Attack on the tax calculation: it is the law, dude!
  28. A man-in-the middle attack on tax calculation in Belgium
  29. Кому в Беларуси жить хорошо? Да никому.
  30. Ещё одна тема для флешмоба
  31. Пофлешмобим?
  32. Is the Open Domain Question Answering really "open"?
  33. Empirical proof of the Conway's law has been published
  34. Жёстко они в Microsoft работают, жёстко...
  35. Service vouchers status quo for 2007
  36. langue, parole ⇒ language, discourse
  37. How much Freedom?
  38. The granularity of planning
  39. IE6 and shaman dances
  40. The essence of a IT project manager's work
  41. The dualism of Rails and Ruby
  42. Using the debian package of tomcat in etch
  43. Лучшие фото фотосайта на рабочем столе, дубль 2
  44. Using GNU screen's multiuser feature, version 2
  45. The KISS principle, dissected
  46. ActiveRecord as an implementation of a design pattern straight out of the book
  47. Who benefits from the service vouchers (dienstcheques, titres-services)
  48. A nasty trick the belgian payslip can play to you

2007 36

  1. Some more ActiveRecord bashing
  2. ActiveRecord and the DRY3 principle
  3. Авторское право vs. всенародное обсуждение
  4. A concise description of the belgian salary calculation in 2007
  5. Read more
  6. OLPC: Omnipresent Loyalty Protection & Control
  7. Looks like it is not limited to Belgium
  8. Groovy documentation and the human mind
  9. Controlling the size of the $PWD in bash, version 2
  10. Controlling the size of the $PWD in bash
  11. Java sucks where Python rulez
  12. Choose your linux distribution
  13. Using GNU screen's multiuser feature
  14. Что делать?
  15. Finding a usable code search engine
  16. What is the thousand separator in french numerals?
  17. I am living the worst developer's nightmare
  18. JSF, dead born, resurrected by hormonal injections
  19. My ideal development team
  20. An ode to the welfare state slaves
  21. yet another dumb test
  22. Прошу ещё одного совета
  23. Посоветуйте оффлайн-календарь с todo
  24. No way to get a Debian Xen-based LVS
  25. Время тестов ;-)
  26. No surprize here ;-)
  27. Lexicon matters
  28. Java behaviour between different JVMs
  29. Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow
  30. Connecting to a hosting provider VPN from linux
  31. Type C work permit in Belgium
  32. Where to get toys for a baby in Belgium
  33. Список руководителей советской, а затем и российской Службы Внешней Разведки
  34. Work permits in Belgium
  35. Are Belgian elections unverifiable?
  36. Belgian unemployment statistics

2006 7

  1. MySQL : so advanced that it forgot the simplest things
  2. Лучшие фото фотосайта на рабочем столе
  3. [Poor man's langmap] using vim key bindings while typing non-latin1 texts
  4. yet another backup script
  5. Java enums suck (as if everyone disagreed)
  6. Do you know the url format?
  7. Software shapes life