Alex Van Boxel

Obsidian is such an important part of my daily workflow since years now, just because a vault is just plain markdown. It gave me such a head start when this AI boom started. Most of my agentic flows happen within my vault. Check it out if you didn't already. Proud to be a Catalyst member.

If you care about Europe's digital sovereignty, you need to watch @jcaudron.bsky.social's closing keynote from @devoxx.com Belgium 2026. It gives a good overview of what is happening and what we can do. Everyone in the Eurotech industry should see this. youtu.be/wUyQmRriCng?...

Last day to submit for Devoxx Belgium. I could use a bit more submission in my track "Cloud Native, Data and Infrastructure".

@mu.social I love the fact that you are creating a new identity for the social application. But let’s be also honest it is a fork of @bsky.app . What are the plans of core alignment… for example on their plans for more community based streams?

Someone knowledgeable on @atproto.com should submit a talk at Devoxx.🇧🇪. We have a "Mind The Geek" track where this would fit perfectly. I've been diving into the specs, and there's a lot of interesting stuff there. You still have a week to submit: www.devoxx.be

CfP for Devoxx is closing soon...

Finally moved to @eurosky.social. Migration was a bit scary when I needed to enter the PLC update confirmation code, and I needed to refresh the migration page before getting the code page. Now, I don't seem to be able to verify my e-mail address as I don't get a "verification code" mail.

This will be a game changer. I'll certainly dive into the proposal to see if it will allow for building mixed private/public data social apps. I hope this proposal will allow for that, because that's how real life is, right? You only disclose part of it publicly.

Voor degenen die geïnteresseerd zijn in "digital sovereignty", een aanrader. "Fixing Europe"-podcast met Jo Caudron en Tom Van de Weghe.

@devoxx.com Digital signage tested and ready for the setup tomorrow.

A proof-of-concept #ADK #AI #Agent code visualizer glaforge.dev/posts/2025/0...

Spring in 🇧🇪.

The internet is missing a .spy Top-Level Domain for my x-mas side project... why aren't the spy agencies making a fuse about this?!

For me, next year will be the year of spiffe.io. Although we've been relying on it for some time already through our tight integration with Istio. I want to push it a layer down toward the infrastructure (where it belongs). Once you have it in place, multi-cloud discussion becomes so much simpler.

Just booked my flight for KubeCon NA 2025. If you have to pay it out of your own pocket, better be fast when prices are low. I shouldn't have waited... the prices were lower a few days ago. Airplane tickets are like gambling.

A Cloud Native local chapter reboot. It was fun meeting everybody. And we made lots of plans for next year… like a blue sky account 😀.

Oh... excited!... I just got a person mail for @reckless.bsky.social. It's start with, "Hey there, it’s good to have you on board." This makes my day. www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24...

@bsky.app could do a server split and run a server in the EU region, and sign its citizens up on that server. It will grow, a relative big server, and prove that the @atproto.com protocol really works... and at the same time, make some bureaucrats happy.

I would pay for an edit option. As a dyslectic, I constantly type typo's. My coworkers even see when I use AI because it makes less typo's 😬.

Let's see how resilient 🦋 follows are: Light mode for the win!!! Well, except for IntelliJ, but that's because of the Darcula theme... and maybe zed (running that in dark mode 🤔)... ok, ok... my terminal is black. But that's it... I think 😶‍🌫️.

A few weeks ago, I presented at ArgoCon (co-located KubeCon event). My second presentation where I created my slides with slide.com, the online editor from the authors behind reveal.js: 30 sliders for 10 minutes, so full of animations. Loved the editing experience. slides.com/alexvanboxel...

it's zine sale time! from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT wizardzines.com

I really don't like that posting is called `skeet` here. It's phonetically close to `scheet` in my month tongue (Dutch). And that means: fart 💨.

ok, uhhh i've got like 3 more hours in the sky club to kill. every like == 1 hot take about observability

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back. So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!) More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

FYI - The cncf has an official account on bsky now - @cncf.io Nothing posted yet, but will in the future 👍

Yesterday at the @opentelemetry.io ContribFest as #KubeCon I had a very unusual question to ask... how do I deprecate *part* of my contribution to the collector? It's not something you easily ask at an online SIG meeting, seeing people in person rules. Thanks, Antoine and Pablo for the guidance.

The #KubeCon day after blues... preparing for a long flying home from Salt Lake City to Brussels. I think this was one of my most productive KubeCon's talking to many people and vendors. I'll be back.