My name is Arjen and I am the Manager of Product Development and Chief Lecturer at Hogeschool NOVI. I work on creating the most modern and relevant educational products that we can offer. Through stategic partnerships and attracting the most talented content developers we offer world class education to our students.
In my work as Chief Lecturer for Cybersecurity I focus on teaching students all there is to know about the technical side of Cyber Security. My main areas of expertise are Reverse Engineering, Infrastructure Security and Web Application Security.
Next to my work I am active as an Independent Hacker. I assist my customers in their journey to increase their security posture. I do this through advice, seminars and security assessments. I toot on the fediverse as @credmp@fosstodon.org and on @arjenwiersma.nl on Blue Sky.
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Recent posts
In July 2023, I installed NixOS as my daily operating system. NixOS is a Linux distribution that emphasizes a declarative approach to system management. This means you define your desired operating system configuration in a file (e.g., KDE with Emacs 30 and Firefox), and the Nix package manager uses that file to create your OS. Every change generates a new version, allowing you to revert to a previous version if anything goes wrong.
In my previous post
I highlighted that I set myself the goal of creating a self hosted comic book collection tool. Before that, in a post about tooling
, I reiterated my ❤️ for Clojure
as a language. So, this is the start of a series of articles detailing how the development is going, and also as an introduction to the various parts of the tech stack.
Clojure is special to me in that there are hardly any big frameworks in the ecosystem. Clojure is more like Lego, there are countless building blocks of various shapes and sizes. It is up to you as the developer to stick the blocks together to get something usefull. You might guess that I also ❤️ Lego.
So, a new year, a new theme! I switched my blog to use the Today I Learned Theme. This theme has a great feature where it also maintains a collection of notes and shows a graph with related notes. This is very similar to how I use org-roam.
I will not be transferring all my notes over, but I thought it would be a very nice feature to share some of my notes with you. This year I am focussing on Clojure
and Rust
, and as a result I will be posting my notes on the new things I learn.