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Henk van Hoek

Passionate about automation with 55 years of experience, from programmable calculators to AI. Currently building Raspberry Pi and self-hosting tools with Python and VirtualBox.

Joined on Aug 3, 2025

Education

HIO Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Work

Retired

Used many languages in my career. But most of the time I used Delphi/Pascal. But also Assembler, C, Algol, Basic variants, Cobol, RTL/2 and ADA and Python.
I see myself as a generalist.

aistudio, chatgpt, claude, and pycharm ai. Also local LLM's using LMStudio. As I've done a few Python projects, I'm testing which AI platform does help the most.

Creating PiSelfhosting open source project on GitHub.
Make it very easy to install services on a Raspberry
https://github.com/HenkVanHoek/PiSelfhosting and
https://github.com/HenkVanHoek/pi-server-vm

7 posts published

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Aug 3

Title: I've Been Automating for 55 Years. Here's What I've Learned.

#ai #productivity #programming

3 min read

Aug 10

My First `uv` Install Took 15 Minutes. Here’s What Was Really Wrong.

#ai #dev #devops #tooling

4 min read

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Aug 8

My "Finished" Project Exploded on Linux. An AI and I Put Out the Fires.

2 min read

Aug 7

My AI Co-Pilot Has No Common Sense

#ai #development #programming #productivity

2 min read

Aug 7

I Migrated My VirtualBox Project to Linux and Everything Broke. Here’s How an AI and I Fixed It.

#programming #ai #virtualmachine #systems

3 min read

Aug 5

Stop Re-explaining Yourself to Your AI: The Magic of "System Instructions"

2 min read

Aug 4

I've Been Automating for 55 Years. My New Partner is an AI.

3 min read

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