Personal website of Floris Van den Abeele, Software Engineer - vdnahttps://vdna.beenThu, 01 Oct 2026 19:23:34 GMThttps://vdna.be/site/moving-from-instagram-to-mastodonhttps://vdna.be/site/moving-from-instagram-to-mastodonFor some time I’ve wanted to move the Instagram account of floriscycles.com to my Mastodon instance and delete the instagram account. Earlier this year I did just that and I’d like to share my method in case someone would want to move their account(s). Note: while PixelFed is better suited to hosting media centered content,…Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:24:18 GMTProgrammingFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/home-backups-with-borghttps://vdna.be/site/home-backups-with-borgNow that my backup solution has been up and running for six months, I thought I’d share a short write-up. I would only recommend running your own backup method, if you are aware of the risks involved. If you’re in the market for backup software, there exist many off-the-shelf products that likely offer what you…Thu, 06 May 2021 21:22:33 GMTLinuxBackblaze b2BackupborgLinuxFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/examenroute-rijbewijs-a-examencentrum-st-denijs-westremhttps://vdna.be/site/examenroute-rijbewijs-a-examencentrum-st-denijs-westremIn februari heb ik het examen openbare weg afgelegd in het examencentrum te Sint-Denijs-Westrem. Nu ken ik de streek rondom het examencentrum behoorlijk (wat niet noodzakelijk een voordeel is), maar misschien heeft iemand anders wel iets aan de route die ik gereden heb. Bovendien is info over examenroutes behoorlijk karig. Vandaar dit bericht.Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:37:57 GMTMotorcyclesFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/upgrading-a-mastodon-instancehttps://vdna.be/site/upgrading-a-mastodon-instanceAs mastodon v3.3.0 has been released for over two months now, I figured it was time to upgrade my family instance from v3.2.1 to v3.3.0 (thereby skipping v3.2.2). I wrote about hosting your own instance, via docker-compose, in a previous post. The past week I’ve been tinkering with mastodon development. Considering what a pain it…Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:59:28 GMTLinuxLinuxSoftwareFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/hosting-your-own-mastodon-instance-via-docker-composehttps://vdna.be/site/hosting-your-own-mastodon-instance-via-docker-composeRecently I’ve setup an invite-only mastodon instance as a private space for friends and family. While I am still evaluating whether mastodon is the right tool for such a private space, I’d like to share a number of issues I encountered during setup.Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:44:56 GMTLinuxFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/migrating-nextcloud-to-a-new-serverhttps://vdna.be/site/migrating-nextcloud-to-a-new-serverNextcloud? I’ve been using a self-hosted file sharing service for the past three years in order to move away from large commercial parties in this space. I started using owncloud in the summer of 2016, but switched to nextcloud later that year as Frank Karlitschek, the founder, left owncloud. The open source, large community and…Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:00:01 GMTLinuxFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/customizing-the-gnome-terminal-emulatorhttps://vdna.be/site/customizing-the-gnome-terminal-emulatorRecently I switched from Xubuntu to Arch linux as my daily driver and I decided to give Gnome 3 a try over XFCE. While XFCE has served me well for many years, the development on XFCE is not as active as on Gnome 3 (unfortunately). For example, whereas Gnome 3 has been running on GTK3…Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:38:20 GMTFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/bikepacken-op-de-gr151-tussen-marbehan-en-marloiehttps://vdna.be/site/bikepacken-op-de-gr151-tussen-marbehan-en-marloieDe Tour du Luxembourg Belge is een bewijzerde wandelroute door het hart van de provincie Luxemburg. De volledige route is zo’n 230 kilometer lang met een 5600tal positieve hoogtemeters. Door de goede ontsluiting met het openbaar vervoer op het westelijke deel van de route, leek de GR151 de ideale kandidaat voor een eerste bikepacking ervaring. De route passeert immers…Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:22:52 GMTBikepackingFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/google-protobuf-at-run-time-deserialization-example-in-chttps://vdna.be/site/google-protobuf-at-run-time-deserialization-example-in-cLately I have been looking at Google’s format for interchanging data between multiple processes or Protocol Buffers. As you would expect for an inter-process data format Protocol Buffers are supported on different platforms and implementations are available for most popular programming languages. An interesting example of such a platform is the stm32l1 micro controller, which…Tue, 24 May 2016 16:40:18 GMTProgrammingFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/cross-compiling-c-projects-with-external-dependencies-click-modular-router-and-the-raspberry-pihttps://vdna.be/site/cross-compiling-c-projects-with-external-dependencies-click-modular-router-and-the-raspberry-piIntroduction At IBCN – my research group – we rely on Click router for implementing and evaluating various Internet communication protocols. Click is a modular software router in C++ that was developed at the end of the last century by Eddie Kohler and others at MIT (the original research paper is available here). Apart from…Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:55:57 GMTProgrammingFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/bibliography-availablehttps://vdna.be/site/bibliography-availableIn the interest of computer science research, I have put online my bibliography with PDF downloads of my own papers (i.e. where I am the first author). I would urge any researcher to do the same as there is little to gain by isolating your work behind a pay wall. Apart from pay walls,…Thu, 08 May 2014 17:23:55 GMTMiscellaneousFloris Van den Abeelehttps://vdna.be/site/hello-worldhttps://vdna.be/site/hello-worldThis post marks the beginning of my blog where I plan to write on various topics related to my professional activities as well as my personal interests. Professionally, I’m currently engaged in a PhD focused on the Internet of Things. I’m employed at the Mobile research group at the department of Information Technology (INTEC) at…Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:06:21 GMTMiscellaneousFloris Van den Abeele