My new website for tracking lend-out books is live! Take control of your shelf 

boydbloemsma

About me

Hey, I'm Boyd Bloemsma. I'm a software developer and tinkerer. I love making things and having lots of side projects going.

Recent articles

Building my first SAAS using Laravel

I think it's especially hard for developers to think of these things, because we are used to thinking in solutions instead of problems.

2024-09-08
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Laravel OG images

Because we don't want to have to manually create an image for every article, we can use The OG package which will do all the hard work for us.

2024-04-20
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Projects

Things I'm working on.

Shelveless
When you start reading books, people will want to lend you books they've enjoyed. And once you've acquired a few books yourself, you will want to lend them out to others. This is a part of life; humans love to share stories, experiences and joy. Shelveless came from this idea. Add your friends and keep track of the books you share.
Chad
Because I wanted to try a project using realtime strategies I decided to make a chatroom application. Rooms and messages are purged every 24h to make it ephemeral. Check it out below.
mssl.sh
I'm working on a URL shortener with builtin QR code support, printed or otherwise permanent QR codes can be updated to link anywhere.