Mike van Riel – Code, Design and Quality are glorious when in harmony

Three ways to switch between views in Blender, without using a NumPad

Posted on June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 by Mike van Riel

I generally work on my laptop a lot, including using Blender, and as most laptops do; this one does not have a NumPad. Most tutorials that you find on the internet presume you do; if you are like me y... Read More

Designing stories in (roleplaying) games

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Some time ago my friend Jhon and I spoke through WhatsApp after having spent an enjoyable evening in a café. There we dwelled on various topics including one of our favourites: Dungeons and Dragons, ... Read More

Shape, Form and Detail: What developers could learn from drawing techniques

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Mike van Riel

When you are like me and love practising your art as a developer then it hurts to build something only to throw it away later on. Many books, articles and opinions centre around the notion of good cod... Read More

Quick-tip: using kubectl when you manage multiple Kubernetes clusters

Posted on February 15, 2019March 7, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Kubectl has this great feature of ‘contexts’ which allow you to switch between clusters or even namespaces within a cluster. But how do you go about adding contexts to your version of kube... Read More

Kubernetes: Unexpected 502 errors when rolling out a new ReplicaSet

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Mike van Riel

The other day I was working on migrating a platform at a client from Virtual Machine based deployments using Ansible to Container-based deployments using Kubernetes. The whole migration went smooth un... Read More

phpBenelux 2019 – Friday

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Last week was the 10th edition of phpBenelux; and for me, it was the 8th time I had been there. From the first one to the 10th one is quite awesome to be a part of and in those 10 years, the spirit of... Read More

The WeCamp Experience

Posted on February 1, 2019February 4, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Disclaimer: I have been involved with the organisation of WeCamp for the past 6 years. The WeCamp Experience. In these past few years this has been my best description for what WeCamp is. It is incred... Read More

Battling Procrastination

Posted on January 15, 2019January 18, 2019 by Mike van Riel

Do you share the same nemesis as I do? The Dreaded Dr. Procrastination? I guess you do. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this post, would you? In the past year or two, I have been trying to un... Read More

Adding drop shadows to your Mapbox Maps

Posted on January 7, 2019January 7, 2019 by Mike van Riel

One of the things that MapBox does not natively support is the concept of drop shadows or some sort of glow to your map elements. Luckily, with some trickery, we can fake that. The trick here is to dr... Read More

Setting the Field of View (FOV) in Mapbox GL JS

Posted on January 4, 2019January 7, 2019 by Mike van Riel

At a client of mine, we are working with Mapbox to show a floor plan of the building. As the map needs to be as readable as possible we wanted to do an experiment by using an orthographic or&nbsp... Read More

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