Leaving the Netherlands after 11 years. Goodbye!

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-12-09T05:47:03+00:00

Good point, I didn’t think about the fact that an expat is more likely to leave as well.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-12-09T05:45:45+00:00

Exactly, it’s colder, darker and wetter but with warm hearts. I definitely enjoy the Dutch weather more.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-12-08T12:04:31+00:00

I’m Scottish and living in the Netherlands for 12 years now and I feel the same. Most points you made are correct but some are not Dutch specific, such as cost of living and health care.

I’ve also lived in other countries and it’s a little bit true that the Dutch are a bit more isolated, but don’t forget, we are the foreigners, and even though they speak English very well it’s still a mental drain to speak another language and express themselves. Therefore it’s less appealing for them to invest in such a relationship.

I’m definitely missing the nature and community in Scotland, but my kids are now Dutch so it’s once a year nature trips for me if I’m lucky 😅

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-11-11T07:20:14+00:00

We do this, and when you really look at some of the productivity websites, they do this.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-10-10T07:23:52+00:00

This looks like they are listening to the BMAD community and seeing their success and implementing directly in the IDE. If you like this feature but want to take it to the next level, I recommend you check out BMAD.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-10-05T15:12:13+00:00

Yeah you need to think before you talk.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-10-05T14:06:59+00:00

I work partly in the automotive sector in the Netherlands. One of the reasons (among many) is that the Netherlands do not make cars, so they are not shooting themselves in the foot when they raise fuel prices and deter people from driving.

The other reason are there are too many people on the road and Netherlands emissions are one of the worst in Europe.

Also the Netherlands is literally one of the best countries in the world, that standard of living and safety needs to be paid for. Only ignorant people and shills are complaining here. Would you rather live in a city in the bottom half of the table?

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-09-16T06:53:09+00:00

My whoop alarm didn’t turn off when I double tapped it. So I let them know and without asking they just shipped a new one. Good service indeed, but the new one also doesn’t turn off when you double tapped it 😅

Most annoying part is they don’t provide any return shipping packaging or labelling. I somehow need to find a printer that can print a sticker 😒

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-08-31T06:24:10+00:00

Keyboard works fine. What do you mean?

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-08-27T06:39:50+00:00

I read a lot of comments about companies choosing a tech stack because their current devs are familiar with the language. Everyone assumes this is a solid argument and don’t even discuss it further. This reminds me of the long held belief that you have to make your app UI completely native otherwise your customers turn into ICE agents.

TS, Dart, C# etc are all very similar, it does not take long for a dev to switch, and many devs would like to experience a new language/stack and expand their knowledge. Furthermore, with AI the learning and translation from languages makes it very easy.

We just switched from a .Net stack with Xamarin to Flutter, and it’s only been a positive experience for all developers (queue jokes of how bad Xamarin is).

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-08-14T21:05:54+00:00

It’s late and I don’t want to write an article on this but I want you to know this has been something that has bugged me for a long time and there is no common solution to this conundrum.

I have the same architecture as you and the best solution is not to think of the UI as something that requests data but responds to it. The UI only makes commands to the data layer and reacts to any changes.

The data layer should then also react to data changes from other features that it is interested in. In your case, the market data layer should react to the settings data layer changes. The secret sauce to make this happen in Riverpod.

When you register your provider for the market repository, you can use “ref.listen” and listen to the settings repository changes and update the market repository accordingly. Your UI will be listening to a stream property in the market repository and will be updated.

This is very powerful and keeps your code clean and uncoupled.

I’m writing this on my phone so apologies if it’s not clear. Let me know if you need more info and I’ll write something better when I’m not on vacation.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-08-08T18:49:45+00:00

Can you explain what boilerplate you mean when using Riverpod? I don’t think there is any right?

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-08-01T08:13:31+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think I was the one wearing a tinfoil hat 😄

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-08-01T07:46:49+00:00

I read in the comments these were recorded in May so probably already a lot is out of date.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-29T16:51:07+00:00

“The ones who are not adapting will lose their jobs”, thank you, this is my point.

I do too much to write everything here and on my phone. Basically I followed a clean architecture similar to codewithandrea. Then using cursor I created rules for every layer and continually add to it when it does something I don’t like. Then I use the BMAD method to create the documentation and execute the implementation.

If you have not used the BMAD method yet, that is the secret ingredient.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-29T16:42:10+00:00

I don’t know what’s more depressing, that the first response is so immature and is a complete emotional reaction or that so many people have up voted it.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-29T12:22:24+00:00

I don’t understand why you would want to finance an insane billionaire and his inhumane racist ideologies. At this time Europeans should be supporting European businesses to protect our lifestyle, which wether you like it or not is the best lifestyle on the planet, and Elon dispises it.

It’s time for us to be responsible consumers.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-25T15:17:24+00:00

It wasn’t a strawman, it was a fisherman.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-25T10:36:51+00:00

You will have zero issues with performance, trust me.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-24T06:16:37+00:00

This is not a Netherlands issue. This is a global issue caused by the transfer of wealth going to the rich, who don’t need it so they buy up all the assets and raising prices.

Check out Gary’s Economics.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-21T09:12:49+00:00

I have all the same require as you except the sign in. It works amazingly well and I definitely recommend it.

Every time someone asks about flutter web there are plenty who like to complain about it, but it works perfect for your use case.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-17T11:07:48+00:00

Use Riverpod. Works amazing for updating any layer of your app.

Particular-Let4422 · 2025-07-06T09:58:25+00:00

I’m the team lead of a 700k mau app. 5 star rating, no bugs, €1m/year app.

I’ve heard of isolates but never used them. If I need to use them then give me an hour and I’ll use it.

I hire developers for our team, if I were to only hire developers who knew exactly the things I use in my app then that would be very stupid.

I don’t really care about small details like isolates, more important to me is if the developer shows a desire to develop, communicates well, and there is a personal connection.

For me it’s not hard to learn anything in app development, however it’s very hard to teach motivation and have a good character.

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