https://blog.joosten-industries.nlThis is my blog where i post things about my endeavours in tech, programming, software development, music and sports 2021-09-30T16:12:49+02:00 Maarten Joosten https://blog.joosten-industries.nl Jekyll © 2021 Maarten Joosten /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2021-09-30T16:04:16+02:00 2021-09-30T16:11:21+02:00 https://blog.joosten-industries.nl/posts/Setting-up-a-bluetooth-device-for-use-with-serial-communication-in-Linux/ Maarten Joosten

In this post I will explain how to setup a Bluetooth device (for example a GPS receiver) so that it can be used for serial communication through Linux’ rfcomm system. I created some Bash scripts to make the process somewhat easier. Prerequisites Linux distribution with Bluetooth support (BlueZ stack, available on most distro’s) Bluetooth MAC address of the device to be configured. This ca...

2020-12-30T12:23:18+01:00 2020-12-30T12:23:18+01:00 https://blog.joosten-industries.nl/posts/Update-on-blog-migration/ Maarten Joosten

Update on blog migration The comment system is now partly in place. Existing comments are now migrated to the new system. It is still not possible to add new comments or reply to existing ones. That’s still work in progress. Enjoy reading

2020-12-28T17:06:13+01:00 2020-12-28T17:06:13+01:00 https://blog.joosten-industries.nl/posts/New-and-updated-blog/ Maarten Joosten

Welcome to this fancy new and updated blog! I migrated the old Wordpress based one to this new Jekyll one, which is easier to maintain. Also i did some maintenance on the old posts (checking for broken links etc.) A comment system is not in place yet, but will be soon! If you have any comments on (future) posts you can contact me on Twitter for the time being. Enjoy reading

2018-11-11T13:35:45+01:00 2020-12-27T11:46:46+01:00 https://blog.joosten-industries.nl/posts/setting-up-a-kubernetes-cluster-on-digital-ocean/ Maarten Joosten

It is now possible to create/maintain Kubernetes clusters on Digital Ocean quite easily. In this post I will show you how to create a cluster with a pod that has a public endpoint; this endpoint will be secured with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Some basic Kubernetes knowledge is assumed so i won’t go into detail explaining what a deployment, service or pod is, or how to work with kubectl. N...

2017-06-25T12:56:23+02:00 2020-12-27T11:46:46+01:00 https://blog.joosten-industries.nl/posts/music-theory-part-1-basic-intervals-and-chords/ Maarten Joosten

Recently I started to take on my old hobby of music making and playing the keyboard, so i had also the need to brush up my knowledge on music theory These series of posts are mostly a summary for myself of information I found all over the internet. This first post concerns about basic intervals and chords Intervals An interval is basically the distance between 2 notes. These distances or inter...