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Koen van Hove

@koenvh.nl.bsky.social

Computer person who likes toying with networking, security, and data. Also creates software that is sometimes useful. Opinions are my own.

46 Followers  |  37 Following  |  54 Posts  |  Joined: 16.08.2023  |  1.8971

Latest posts by koenvh.nl on Bluesky

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Recently I've been playing The Farmer Was Replaced. There is something quite satisfying about seeing your algorithms come to life, especially as normally I'm too lazy to make a decent visualisation.

In the open source philosophy, here's my final script: gist.github.com/Koenvh1/a8ca...

29.10.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - Koenvh1/Rijkspodcast: Een overzicht van alle podcasts geproduceerd door of in opdracht van de Rijksoverheid Een overzicht van alle podcasts geproduceerd door of in opdracht van de Rijksoverheid - Koenvh1/Rijkspodcast

Alle updates van de podcasts in het Rijkspodcastregister staan op GitHub. Als bijvangst kan ik nu zien wanneer bijvoorbeeld een spelfout in een aflevering verbeterd is of dat een aflevering is toegevoegd of verwijderd. Misschien komt die dataset nog een keer van pas :-)

github.com/koenvh1/rijk...

25.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - Koenvh1/ScreenDeck: Turn your Stream Deck into an actual "Stream" Deck Turn your Stream Deck into an actual "Stream" Deck - Koenvh1/ScreenDeck

My Stream Deck plugin "ScreenDeck" (to use my Stream Deck as video player) is now available on GitHub!

github.com/Koenvh1/Scre...

21.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The roadbooks I made for Dakar 18 and Dakar Desert Rally now end up on the first page if you Google "Dakar roadbook". As a consequence people have been emailing me thinking they are the roadbooks for the real 2020/2021/2022 Dakar seasons. Mission failed successfully I guess :-)

16.10.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some time ago I bought a Stream Deck (I also wrote a blog about it), but I could never actually stream anything to it. That had to change. Recently I've been working on a plugin to stream live video to the Stream Deck. It works remarkably well:

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After 12 years of loyal service, my dashboard for Raceroom has stopped working. It was time for something new, which gave me something to tinker with again. I also just now caught up with all the added functionality from the last 12 years, like showing the current flag.

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The inside of my PC case, showing two led spots illuminating up and down respectively.

The inside of my PC case, showing two led spots illuminating up and down respectively.

The inside of my PC case as seen through the mesh window, with the brightness of the spotlights turned down.

The inside of my PC case as seen through the mesh window, with the brightness of the spotlights turned down.

One last addition to my PC (which had to arrive from China): two LED spotlights. Both because I like the look, and because I can more easily see that my PC is still on β€” it's so quiet most of the time I sometimes forget it is still running.

29.09.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! I maintain some mods for games that still get updates, and whenever an update requires changes it always feels like a race against the clock, with users sending you messages with varying degrees of entitlement.

26.09.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Building a custom HUD for Dakar Desert Rally How I keep finding incredibly niche things to develop for

Because some people requested it: I have now written a longer article about the why and how of building the custom HUD for Dakar Desert Rally on my blog.

blog.koenvh.nl/building-a-c...

25.09.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have the uncanny ability to find really niche things to develop for. This weekend: a dashboard for Dakar Desert Rally. It only shows the speed, but that's all I need. Plus I learnt a thing or two about reverse engineering Unreal Engine and extracting values from running processes.

20.09.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last week a parcel by @alexfursuitmaker.bsky.social arrived and I'm chuffed to bits with it - world, say hello to Rakoen (pronounced as Raccoon).

17.09.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking stellar!

12.09.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Let's finally build a new PC Recently I assembled a new PC. I figured I would take the opportunity to write a bit about how that came to be, as well as reminisce about the good old times, because as my last upgrade has been about 8 years ago, and I think it’s quite an interestin...

I built a new pc after not changing anything for 8+ years. I decided to document my experience, which you can read here: blog.koenvh.nl/lets-finally...

03.09.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

13 jaar geleden publiceerde ik WIDM Exam. Hoewel ik al lang opgehouden ben met ontwikkelen daarvan, wordt het tot op de dag van vandaag nog steeds gebruikt - dat had ik van tevoren nooit verwacht.

01.09.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Het verhaal achter het Rijkspodcastregister Mag het ook een podcast meer zijn?

De afgelopen weken ben ik bezig geweest met het opzetten van het Rijkspodcastregister. Aangezien het waarom, wat, en hoe te lang is om hier te plaatsen, heb ik het hier opgeschreven: blog.koenvh.nl/het-verhaal-...

02.08.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rijkspodcastregister De Rijksoverheid produceert een tal van podcasts. Deze website is een overzicht van alle podcasts die de Rijksoverheid heeft geproduceerd.

Met hulp van vele anderen is het aantal podcasts in het Rijkspodcastregister (een overzicht van alle podcasts geproduceerd door of in opdracht van de Rijksoverheid) nu 141.
Ongeveer 25% is exclusief op Spotify beschikbaar en niet via RSS.

rijkspodcast.koenvh.nl

23.07.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The tale of backups continues Some time ago I wrote about backups, my love-hate relationship with most back-up software available, how Duplicati had let me down when it came to rebuilding my database, and I switched to my own solution. Let’s have a look at what happened since the...

My love-hate relationship with backups continues, though this time it seems like I finally found something that ticks most of the boxes. tl;dr: it's restic with Backrest.

Read the full version here:
blog.koenvh.nl/the-tale-of-...

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Rijkspodcastregister De Rijksoverheid produceert een tal van podcasts. Deze website is een overzicht van alle podcasts die de Rijksoverheid heeft geproduceerd.

De Rijksoverheid produceert een tal van podcasts. Vele daarvan zijn helaas niet of nauwelijks vindbaar. Ik vond het tijd om daar verandering in te brengen, en ben begonnen met het maken van een Rijkspodcastregister. De eerste versie staat vandaag online:

rijkspodcast.koenvh.nl

15.07.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes the simplest programming projects bring the greatest joy, like this button on my Stream Deck that allows me to turn the fan behind my simracing setup on and off (using a smart plug). It's really nice, especially with summer around the corner.

25.06.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As many people probably already know, I fly a rainbow flag outside my house. Not just during pride month, but pretty much year round. I hope that one day LGBTQ+ acceptance will be as self-evident as women's voting rights, but until that day there is still something to fight for.

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Good morning!

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Good morning! Last weekend I made a clock where it's always 11 AM, just the timezone changes, so I can always say good morning. See it for yourself here: koenvh.nl/playground/1...

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After over two months we resume the cookie experiment at the University of Twente, this time using stroopwafels. Admittedly at this point I've stopped tracking the data.

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Openbaarmakingscentrum Amsterdam wint Transparantieprijs 2025 - iBestuur

Gisteren was er een ontbijtsessie "Wet Open Overheid", waar ook de transparantieprijs werd uitgereikt. Van de 4 nominaties was van 2 de strekking "probeert de wettelijke termijn te halen". Volgens mij is dit een teken dat er nog winst te behalen valt.

ibestuur.nl/artikel/open...

16.05.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
April Fools 2025: Phone books and adverts The things I did for April Fools 2025

Even though it is now over a month ago I was busy this April Fools. I made a summary of the things I did; if you're interested, you can read about it here:

blog.koenvh.nl/april-fools-...

09.05.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How I made and printed 252 rally pacenotes In Splitsing drie links niet snijden 500! I wrote about how I ended up making a Dutch co-driver voice for EA WRC. Whilst I was doing that, I ended up rummaging through the game files. It’s always interesting to see how the game works internally. Whil...

What do you get when you combine typesetting, printing, and automation? A car full of cardboard boxes. Read all about it in my post about how I made 252 rally pacenote booklets: blog.koenvh.nl/how-i-made-a...

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A Tale of Backups I have data. Admittedly most of that data does not have a lot of value, such as a list of motorway mile markers in the Netherlands and their coordinates from 2021. Still, I have no reason to throw it away, thus I just keep it on my disk just in case ...

Recently I had to look into backup solutions again, and because of that I decided to write about my backup journey and gripes with most backup software. You can read the full piece here:
blog.koenvh.nl/a-tale-of-ba...

05.05.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This weekend's project: PedalPal, an application that allows someone else to control your pedals in any racing game. I'm still tweaking with it, but it works very well so far.

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Ha, happy that you liked it :-)

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Some people have asked me "why does the Phone Book of the Internet" not support IPv6? The simple reason is that it just does not fit:

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