Who sees your data?Summer is Here! Imagine that vacation you’ve been looking forward to for months, it’s finally here! Everything is packed up and ready to go, it’s Saturday night and by lunchtime tomorrow you’ll be ways away from home on your way to the sunny retreat of your dreams. As you plug in your phone next to the nightstand, you see a new message pop up on the screen: “Medication refill available for pickup on Monday”. Sure enough, the medication you packed for the trip is almost empty and won’t last through the three-week vacation. “Oh well”, you think, “I’ll just refill it there”. Wi ..read more

HealthChain: Decentralised Storage and Access to Medical Survey Data The Problem On May 25th, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became law. This law, also known as the “algemene verordening gegevensbescherming“ (AVG) in the Netherlands, gives citizens more control of the usage of their data, as described on the website of the Dutch government. “Citizens now have more rights when it comes to knowing which data is collected from them, how long it is kept and to which third parties it is provided. They have the option of having their data changed or removed. Governments, organiz ..read more

Using Linux in a modern .NET worldBecause Macbook keyboards need to be repaired from time to time, I was forced to use my — rather old, but still very capable — Acer Aspire V3–571G to continue my .NET development work in the meantime. I gave it a fresh install of the latest Zorin OS 15 Core distro, which is built upon Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. I’ll discuss some details on how to get up and running quickly with .NET development on Linux.This post is a follow up on my previous post, when setting up a Mac for .NET development.Installing .NET Core SDK on Zorin OSNothing special here. You can choose whic ..read more

Photo by Ben Pattinson on UnsplashWorking with different programming languages allows you to compare certain features between them. Convergence between languages, (and also frameworks) becomes noticeable: It seems new language- and framework features are “borrowed” from other language- or frameworks, or are sometimes the result of “taking the best of both worlds”. Multi-value return statements in programming languages is one such feature.This post will focus on this concept, compared between the languages Golang, C# and TypeScript.What are multi-value return statements anyway?Let’s start with ..read more