About Me

I'm a software developer from The Netherlands, with over a decade of software development experience. I'm the author of and work full-time on the Inko programming language. Please consider supporting my work by donating using GitHub Sponsors. Before working on Inko, I worked as a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab. For more details, refer to my resume.

You can find me on GitLab, GitHub, Twitter, Reddit and lobste.rs. If you wish to contact me through Email, my Email address is yorick at this domain name. I'm not interested in unsolicited Emails from recruiters, and mark such Emails as spam.

My GPG public key is EB691AC9. Other keys registered on my name are no longer in use.

Articles

Dec 14, 2021	I'm leaving GitLab to work on Inko full-time
Aug 24, 2021	Friendship ended with the garbage collector
Oct 25, 2020	libffi-rs 1.0.0 is released
Jun 30, 2020	10 years of software development
Dec 2, 2019	Deciding when to collect garbage
Nov 22, 2019	Not beating C with 96 lines of Inko
Jun 8, 2019	Writing a self-hosting compiler for Inko
May 2, 2018	Inko: a brief introduction
Sep 6, 2015	Compiling XPath to Ruby
Aug 31, 2015	Hello, GitLab!
May 20, 2015	Oga 1.0 Released
Sep 12, 2014	Oga: a new XML/HTML parser for Ruby
Jun 8, 2013	Hacking extconf.rb
Feb 5, 2013	Contributing To My Code
Nov 26, 2011	Debugging With Pry
Apr 13, 2011	Use BCrypt Fool!