Software development - a love that consumes you ❤️ Steals your hours ⏰, your camaraderie 🤝, even your romance 💑 Despite your best intentions to balance it, the scales ⚖️ tip towards it. The real...
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Developers are masochists 😈
Developers are masochists 😈 They enjoy the thrill of the challenge... 🎢 Where the compiler turns them down 99% of the time 🚫, yet they persist to make it work. 💪 Just a thought...🧐
Make HTML More Powerful! 💪
Make HTML More Powerful! 💪 Four issues with HTML: 1. Why should only 'a' and 'form' element 🔤 be able to make HTTP requests? 2. Why should only click & submit events 👆 trigger them? 3. Why...
Svelte and htmx: A glimpse into the future?
In my journey, I've wrestled with Angular, tangoed with Vue and flirted with React. But here's the catch: 😬 You've got to fully commit and cross your fingers that your prized framework doesn't...
Politics in your company grinding your progress?
Politics in your company grinding your progress? 🎲 Political games - they're a reality inside companies 🏢. It doesn't seem fair, but the question is, do you stand against it 👊 or learn the rules and...
Scrum sabotaging dev productivity?
Scrum sabotaging dev productivity? I am spotting a pattern lately. Developers doing less and less😯. Why? Estimates are getting increasingly bloated 🎈. What's inflating these estimates? It's down to...
Integration testing – it’s not a choice, it’s a no-brainer!
Integration testing – it's not a choice, it's a no-brainer! Seems like these days I'm all about integration testing. 📝🔍 Yeah, unit tests? They're alright but, man, do they fall apart when something...
No more Dynamics 365 Marketing.
No more Dynamics 365 Marketing. It merges with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to become a single AI solution. The fusion results in two apps within this offering: 1️⃣ Customer Insights – Data =>...
Dive into Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Wave 2 ’23 plans – it’s all about Copilot!
Dive into Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Wave 2 '23 plans - it's all about Copilot! Get the details:...
Scrum has become a cult, even a religion 🛐✝️🕌.
Scrum has become a cult, even a religion 🛐✝️🕌. If I dare hint that Scrum might be causing a bit of unproductivity, I'm smacked with "you're not doing it right" 🙅♂️. Apparently, I'm not strict...
Embracing the trend of going paperless? 📝➡️🗑️
Embracing the trend of going paperless? 📝➡️🗑️ Let's talk about frictionless too. A topic often ignored. 🚫🔥 Downloading a PDF that you need to fill it in and then upload it again... Yes, it's digital...
Strive for few dependencies
Strive for few dependencies Every package that you add to your code is yet another dependency to your project. This dependency is not for free. You take on the risk of the dependency. Do you know...

Remy van Duijkeren
Power Platform Architect
I help Dynamics 365 teams remove friction. Architecture, automation, and integrations that hold up.