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I give up on neovim

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:49:07 +0200

Note:

English is not my first language. The text below was written by me and corrected by an AI. I then corrected the AI’s corrected text, so there are probably still some wording errors

In 2022, I made a New Year’s resolution to switch from Chrome to Firefox, and from VS Code to Neovim.

My goal was to reduce my dependence on GAFAM tools, and it turned out to be a good decision considering this.

Cloud Is Overkill

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:08:07 +0200

Last week, I saw a Reddit post in which a user explained how Netlify sent him a bill of over $100K just for hosting a static website.

It seems it ended well for him since Netlify canceled the invoice (maybe because the post went viral).

Days after it went viral, someone created a website listing all these billing horror stories, which led me to read another article.

This time, it was about a $72K bill from Google, for a Python script with a recursive bug deployed on Firebase.

Swarm

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:31:10 +0200

Swarm is an open-source project designed to extract data published by administrative units in Flanders and republish it as linked data.

It takes advantage of the Flemish government’s open data initiative, which motivates local administrations to publish their decisions as linked open data since 2019.

Largely inspired by a similar existing project, it’s not intended to replace any existing tools; I use it primarily as a sandbox for trying out new ideas in data extraction and processing. For production-level work, I’d strongly recommend using a more reliable solution.

Adana

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:28:47 +0200

Adana is a scripting programming language, repl and namespaced aliases for commands.

Try it out!

Introduction

This project started as a way to put into practice what I learned while reading the Rust programming language book.

Nordine Bittich

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:37:20 +0200

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** Website:** bittich.be
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** GitHub:** github.com/nbittich

Professional Experience

Full-Stack Developer — ABB / Vlaamse Overheid

Jan 2021 – Present

Backend and frontend development for ABB using a microservice based architecture
Implementation of an ETL to extract, transform, validate and publish RDF triples from HTML pages (RDFa)
Providing support for different teams (pair programming, peer reviews, debugging, implementing features)
Working in Agile across multiple projects simultaneously
Worked simultaneously on multiple Agile projects
Technologies: Node.js, Java, Docker, Ruby, Virtuoso, SPARQL, SHACL, Ember.js, Git, Jena, Elixir, RDF, Rust

Full-Stack Developer — Atos / European Commission

Jun 2020 – Dec 2020