A whole lot of everything http://msioen.github.io AI Experiments - Recent AI innovations, more specifically new agentic workflows and the open-source Gemini CLI, inspired me to modernize my Smart Home Display. The vision is that anyone in my home will be able to voice control what the smart screen shows, without being limited to its current capabilities. If someone wants... Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2025-08-05-voice-vibe-coding-with-gemini-cli/ http://msioen.github.io/2025-08-05-voice-vibe-coding-with-gemini-cli/ A challenge game, aimed at developers - Over the past month, I built a small challenge game aimed to test out your developer terminology. It’s called ‘Developer Dictionary Challenge’ and it can be found on https://developer-dictionary.pages.dev. The goal of the game is to navigate from one developer term to another, using as little steps as possible. By... Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2024-06-08-developer-dictionary/ http://msioen.github.io/2024-06-08-developer-dictionary/ AI Experiments - Many people around the world are getting familiar with AI tooling like ChatGPT to enhance their work or personal lives. In some ways this revolutionised our way of working. This prompted me to build some experiments of my own. How easy is it to run this type of Artificial Intelligence... Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2024-04-16-ai-offline-llm/ http://msioen.github.io/2024-04-16-ai-offline-llm/ Writing useful, structured and readable documentation isn’t that straightforward. In this post I’ll attempt to give some tips and tricks to help you improve writing documents. To be fair, nearly everything in this post applies to any communication, not just documentation. The same thoughts and approach can be applied to... Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2024-03-03-technical-documentation/ http://msioen.github.io/2024-03-03-technical-documentation/ Azure AI Experiments - When I started playing around with speech-to-text functionalities, the goal was to do some fun things with the captured speech. Wouldn’t it be fun if you create your own fairy tales for your kids and while you’re talking you get matching illustrations? To get some nice background graphics while playing... Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2023-06-21-ai-story-visualisation/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-06-21-ai-story-visualisation/ Azure AI Experiments - This year I’m experimenting a lot with the Azure AI offerings. In this post I’ll describe some of my experiments with natural language and speech-to-text functionalities. I purposefully wanted to play around with functionality as close to real-time as possible. A lot of existing and useful AI tooling works asynchronously.... Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2023-05-13-ai-speech-to-value/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-05-13-ai-speech-to-value/ Azure AI Experiments - Use case I have a bad habit of taking many screenshots. As-in a lot of screenshots, sometimes important, sometimes not so much. On macOS these automatically get a timestamp in their name, so my screenshots folder has a nice big list of historic files. At this point it can be... Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2023-02-12-ai-tagger/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-02-12-ai-tagger/ A mini deep-dive in .NET (headless) CMS systems - This post is part of a bigger series. Read the series introduction for the full context. I initially hesitated to add Cofoundry to the series since it’s the odd one out in its approach. Where the other posts discuss CMS platforms which can be used out of the box, Cofoundry... Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-5-cofoundry/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-5-cofoundry/ A mini deep-dive in .NET (headless) CMS systems - This post is part of a bigger series. Read the series introduction for the full context. Facts & figures Orchard Core positions itself as follows: “Open-source, modular, multi-tenant application framework and CMS for ASP.NET Core” Main differentiators: Orchard Core is not just a headless CMS, it’s a great framework for... Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-4-orchard/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-4-orchard/ A mini deep-dive in .NET (headless) CMS systems - This post is part of a bigger series. Read the series introduction for the full context. Facts & figures Umbraco Heartcore positions itself as follows: “The flexible CMS that grows with your business” “A headless CMS that’s heartful and hardcore” Main differentiators: The content management interface uses the main Umbraco... Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-3-umbraco/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-3-umbraco/ A mini deep-dive in .NET (headless) CMS systems - This post is part of a bigger series. Read the series introduction for the full context. Facts & figures Squidex positions itself as follows: “How modern companies manage their content” “You don’t need another system for your content. You need it on a single place. Centralized, structured and with seamless... Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-2-squidex/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-2-squidex/ Series introduction - This is the first entry for a new blogpost series investigating headless Content Management Systems built on .NET. This series aims to give a good general overview of what the platforms have to offer. They will also contain relevant side notes or potential issues I ran into. They are not... Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-1-intro/ http://msioen.github.io/2023-01-03-dotnet-cms-1-intro/ A tool to help cook crews prepare for group events - Every summer for the past eight years, I’ve been part of a cook crew for a youth movement. We’re usually with a group of around 130 persons with the primary school kids of KSA Izegem, the leaders and the chefs combined. With this group we have our yearly, seven-day camp.... Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2022-03-02-kampkok/ http://msioen.github.io/2022-03-02-kampkok/ Putting IoT to use - A while back I bought some sensors and placed them in my home. They worked fine, but to actually see the data or data history, a specific application or website was needed. While this is easy to do, it still resulted in the sensor data going largely unused. To actually... Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2021-01-06-smart-home-display/ http://msioen.github.io/2021-01-06-smart-home-display/ Tracking down issues on Linux - Mutual SSL authentication with .NET Core is fairly straightforward. This week I ran into some interesting (at the time very frustrating) exceptions however, when our application was deployed on the target Linux machine. This post is mainly intended to possibly help inform other developers running into the same exceptions. I’ll... Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2020-10-17-mutual-ssl-linux/ http://msioen.github.io/2020-10-17-mutual-ssl-linux/ From problem to solution - optimise your process - Problem solving is an integral part of a lot of professions. Yet everyone struggles with it one time or another. There are a lot of known truths, guidelines and assumed knowledge out there but I do find it’s very easy to skip the relevant steps when you need them. In... Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2020-01-12-problem-solving/ http://msioen.github.io/2020-01-12-problem-solving/ Testing and debugging on device - To convert a website into a progressive web app, a couple of things are required: the website needs to have a valid manifest file the website needs to have a registered service worker the website needs to be served over SSL with a valid certificate In order to properly test... Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2019-11-23-the-pwa-experiment-pt2-debugging/ http://msioen.github.io/2019-11-23-the-pwa-experiment-pt2-debugging/ Transforming my blog to a progressive web app - Progressive web applications are becoming more and more powerful. As an experiment to see what they are all about and what is possible I decided to convert this blog into a PWA. What is a PWA? Progressive web applications, or abbreviated PWAs, are websites which have additional functionality compared to... Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0700 http://msioen.github.io/2019-10-26-the-pwa-experiment-pt1-setup/ http://msioen.github.io/2019-10-26-the-pwa-experiment-pt1-setup/ This post isn’t intended as a ‘how to start developing for Tizen with Xamarin’. Samsung has some very good guides on this already which I linked at the bottom of this post. Instead I’ll list some general issues and tips. I’ll also bundle easy access to various resources which were... Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2019-01-29-xamarin-tizen-wearable-experience/ http://msioen.github.io/2019-01-29-xamarin-tizen-wearable-experience/ Introducing a new macOS utility application - So, I needed to scan some QR codes as part of my development flow. I’ll be honest, I didn’t do the homework. I’m sure there already are a lot of QR utilities out there. I did instead decide to roll out something of my own for several reasons: I wanted... Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0800 http://msioen.github.io/2018-03-01-menubarcodereader/ http://msioen.github.io/2018-03-01-menubarcodereader/