The COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium was officially enforced on noon 18th Mar 2020 but at home we were already quarantined (kids since Carnival holidays, 24th Feb; me from EOB 13th Mar).

Since a while I am contemplating the possibility of automatically publishing on social media some stats and data visualisations from work. When I discovered the nice bot @everytract by @fitnr (and a little later the @GVAcartografic’s #Secciócensal tweets) I decided to try and do a Twitter bot myself in order to see what is possible and how difficult it is.

Now that I have a new blog setup, I can more quickly post what has been since long time in the making: my ErgoDox keyboard. It all started with me reading Steve Yegge’s blog on touch typing and being convinced I should give it a try with a proper keyboard.

I finally decided to give it a try and then switched to blogdown (here the free book.) I sort of followed the migration suggestions in the book, but when I tried to switch to Netlify I got everyting messed up with my OVH setup so I am still with Github Pages…one step at a time…

Docker for Oracle This post describes my journey to building and using a docker image for Oracle. It all started as usual searching the web for hints and many results led to the Oracle docker Github repository.