Conversational Commerce, or Conversational Assistance?
21 July 2019

Conversational Commerce, or Conversational Assistance?

Initially conversational commerce revolved mainly around chatbots, but with the proliferation of smart speakers the 'conversation' part in conversational commerce is becoming more natural, so these days conversational commerce is (according to its Wikipedia definition): "commerce-commerce via various means of conversation", with live chat, messaging, chatbots and virtual assistants as primary examples.
Unity Developer - Egeniq
18 July 2019

Who Wants To Be A Unity Developer?

We were asked by RTL Nederland to make a companion game for their new game show on TV, BankGiro Miljonairs (the dutch version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). This article will sum up the positive and negative aspects of using Unity while I have worked on this application.
Blog - Egeniq
24 July 2018

Mocking in JavaScript tests with Sinon, Mocha and Jest

Recently I ran into some issues with JavaScript testing in one of our projects. Since I had a hard time figuring out the solution and the internet didn’t help me enough, I thought I’d share my solution in a blogpost.
Developing for android TV keeping focused
03 July 2018

Developing for Android TV — keeping focused

The past couple of months we at Egeniq had been working on the brand new Android TV app for Pathé Thuis, a video-on-demand service in the Netherlands, and now that it is finally available on Google…
How to gracefully stop a Laravel CLI command
09 May 2018

How to gracefully stop a Laravel CLI command

Last week I was building a console command on top of Laravel that could be running for a long time. It was a long-running process that runs a queue worker. It reads from a queue, does some processing…
Serverless GitHub webhooks
28 March 2018

Serverless GitHub webhooks

What is Serverless? It’s a toolkit that helps you deploy and operate serverless architectures to various cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. There are quite a few ways to…
Generating a changelog based on merge commits
28 March 2018

Generating a changelog based on merge commits

Here’s a useful command that I’ve been using for a while. It generates a changelog, based on all merge commits since the latest release was tagged. This will give you the latest tag name, eg: 1.24.3…
Don’t care about containers
03 January 2018

Don’t care about containers

I don’t care too much about containers. They’re just a means to an end. What I really care about is documenting and versioning my infrastructure. Docker, especially with Compose, is practically…
Challenges as a remote worker - Egeniq
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Challenges as a remote worker

For the majority of my career I’ve been working remote part-time. It was always considered a special treatment, and with most employers it took a lot of effort to earn. Quite honestly, most of the…

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