Thomas Vanderstraeten

Thomas Vanderstraeten

Repeat tech entrepreneur, productivity lover,
neurotech explorer, endurance sports addict.

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Creating Engineering Principles for your Team

Actionable tips & tricks to define your engineering principles and increase your team firepower

Posted 7. January 2022. 6 min read.
# Engineering Management # Startups
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End-to-end Visibility in Engineering

Why E2E visibility matters for engineering teams and how to achieve it in practice

Posted 6. January 2022. 4 min read.
# Engineering Management # Startups
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Building an Advanced RBAC System in NestJS

An in-depth guide to building a granular role-based-access-control permissions system in NestJS

Posted 31. December 2021. 4 min read.
# NestJS # RBAC # Security
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Did Zarathustra love emojis?

A random homage to Nietzsche to experiment with emoji domain names

Posted 29. December 2021. 3 min read.
# DNS # Nietzsche # Random
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Schema-based multitenancy with NestJS, TypeORM and PostgresSQL

An in-depth guide to partition tenants data based on DB schemas with NestJS, TypeORM and PostgreSQL

Posted 17. December 2021. 11 min read.
# NestJS # TypeORM # PostgreSQL
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Issues-Driven Specifications

Leaving no stone unturned to accelerate your product & engineering teams

Posted 6. December 2021. 2 min read.
# Productivity # Tools # SaaS
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My tool stack

The tools & stuff I use for productivity

Posted 6. December 2021. 1 min read.
# Productivity # Tools # SaaS
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All your domain are belong to us

All domains taken, none honouring the meme? Let's do something about it!

Posted 18. February 2021. 1 min read.
# DNS # Memes # Random
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Bing (and Brave?) are squatting Goo*gle domains so I joined them

All of this for 1000x less than market price per "O"

Posted 26. January 2021. 2 min read.
# DNS # Hacks # Random
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Ultimate ultra-trail running stuff checklist

Heading for an ultra-trail? Take these with you!

Posted 1. October 2020. 1 min read.
# Ultra-trail # Endurance # Stuff
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Pragmatic advice for starting entrepreneurs

Humble advice I wish I'd received 10 years ago when just out of school.

Posted 28. September 2020. 4 min read.
# Entrepreneurship # Personal development # Career
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A one-line command to accelerate Github Pull Requests

Accelerate your Git workflow with this powerful terminal command

Posted 3. July 2020. 2 min read.
# Productivity # Development # Github
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Acing Personal Productivity

10 field-tested tips & tricks to get you flying high

Posted 5. May 2020. 5 min read.
# Productivity # Personal development # Leadership
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A welcome pack to Brussels startup life

You’re quitting your corporate job? Start with this friendly intro.

Posted 4. February 2019. 7 min read.
# Entrepreneurship # Brussels # Ecosystem
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How to Run 100K and Actually Enjoy It

A complete guide to running your first ultra-marathon

Posted 3. November 2018. 13 min read.
# Running # Ultramarathon # Ultrarunning # Mental Toughness # Preparation
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Dear Coder: Please, Don't be a Hero

Taking a stand against Bonnie Tyler

Posted 20. August 2018. 7 min read.
# DevOps # Heroics # Agile Development # Heroes # Startup Lessons
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The Lego Syndrome: Stuck Between a Rocket and a Quiet Place

Trying to live Here and Now when you have big projects

Posted 29. May 2018. 5 min read.
# Lego # Motivational # Ambition
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A Runner Paying the Price for Too Many Nights of Coding

The joy of being torn between the Flow and the High

Posted 30. April 2018. 6 min read.
# Running # Coding # Ultrarunning # Failure
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A crypto charity fundraising on Ethereum, with a 60KM ultra-run STRAVA GPS Oracle

Discover the technology powering Cryptorun.brussels

Posted 27. March 2018. 3 min read.
# Running # Charity # Blockchain # Strava # Ethereum
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15 months, 1 top team, 1 award: a bunch of great learnings as a CTO @Seraphin

Last December our team at Seraphin had the honour to receive the Best B2C website award.

Posted 11. January 2018. 5 min read.
# CTO # Startup lessons
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