Middleware Engineer & DevOps Specialist
I'm a middleware engineer/Devops, Dad, writer, and digital autonomy advocate based in Brussels. I geek out on information systems, democracy, justice, coercive groups, and discernment.
A personal hub for long-form writing, curated bookmarks, and open-web experiments — where ideas about tech, autonomy, democracy, and digital culture meet. DevOps engineer, IndieWeb enthusiast, and OSINT enthusiast based in Brussels Read more →
Auto-sorting CLI for GitHub starred repos — classify 5000+ stars into taxonomy using Claude AI, publish to GitHub Lists and awesome-list README
Fixed a race condition where posts were syndicated to Bluesky and Mastodon before Eleventy finished building them — causing 404 links and wrong OG images that platforms cache permanently.
The fix adds a two-layer check: before syndicating each post, the system now verifies via HTTP HEAD that both the post URL and its /og/
If either isn’t ready yet, the post is skipped and retried on the next 2-minute cycle. A bash-level safety net also skips the entire syndication cycle if the site itself isn’t responding.
No more “your link is broken” replies — posts only reach social platforms once they’re fully built and live.
Interesting, I just noticed Bluesky has now a “Live Stream” integration with Twitch, Streamplace and Bluecast.
You can add your link and it show up as “live” when live. Mastodon could do that with Peertube or Loop
41 free tools to understand what’s really happening in your Claude Code sessions.
Zero dependencies · Runs entirely local · Free
2022-02 – Present
Real-time monitoring and analysis platform for open-source intelligence The OSINTukraine initiative is a specialized endeavor dedicated to open-source intelligence (OSINT) pertaining to Ukraine. Its primary objectives are the collection, archiving, translation, analysis, and dissemination of critical information related to the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. Utilizing advanced OSINT techniques, the project offers in-depth insights into current events, potential security threats, and other relevant issues concerning Ukraine. This is achieved by monitoring numerous Russian telegram channels, followed by meticulous filtering, categorization, and archiving of data streams. These efforts are further enhanced by various OSINT analysis projects incubated within the initiative." Current sub-projects War crimes archive Drones research Location related alerts system
2023-01 – Present
Chardons Bleus is a non-profit association created to raise and manage funds so that people victims of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling cult and its criminal leader Robert Spatz can effectively access the justice system. The association exists to pool resources, cover legal and procedural costs, and provide a collective framework that makes long and complex judicial actions financially possible. It also acts as a point of coordination between contributors, legal representatives, and supporting professionals, with the clear purpose of enabling accountability through lawful proceedings that individuals could not sustain alone.
2002-11 – Present
BuzzWorkers is a long running personal project dedicated to curating, preserving, and publishing independent electronic music and DJ mixes spanning Techno, Electro, Trip Hop, Acid, and related experimental genres from the 1990s to today. Over more than twenty years, I designed, operated, migrated, and maintained the full technical stack behind the platform, evolving alongside the web itself. This included working with multiple generations of hosting, audio tooling, content management systems, databases, automation scripts, streaming and download infrastructures, and more recently federated platforms such as the fediverse and Funkwhale. Beyond music production and curation, the project taught me long term system design, data preservation, platform migration, interoperability, and the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized architectures, while managing large media collections and making them reliably accessible on the web for community and educational use.
2023-10 – Present
“Skyfleet”, a fleet of thematic and news-oriented Bluesky accounts powered by RSS feeds and FreshRSS, with pages that track their sources and purpose, plus a hand-curated directory of custom feeds with clear inclusion criteria so people can discover active, maintained feeds and share their own
2015-10 – 2022-10
OKCinfo was launched at the end of 2015 as a desperate last minute attempt in a 20 year long existing trial launched by the Belgian state against the OKC cult in 1997. The 23 of us – supported by more than 40 other former OKC-born young children – have since been supported by talented lawyers ready to champion our cause. The Belgian chapter of the justice battle against OKC was concluded in 2022, the pedocriminal Robert Spatz was condemned to a 5 years suspended sentence. The victims decided to engage a new Justice battle in france under the banner of Association Chardons Bleus
