Fokke Zandbergen

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20 Reasons Why I ❤️ Working Remote

I’ve been working from home since 2013. Initially as a freelance app developer, later as Developer Advocate for Appcelerator and The Things Network and currently as Full Stack Engineer for Zapier. We’ve become so used to commuting to an office, that people often don’t understand why I like and actually prefer to work from home. […]

How I have been using Zapier to Automate my Slack Status

At Zapier, we were thrilled to hear Slack introduced setting your status. Slack is the very backbone of our daily communication and as a fully remote company you can’t just tell if somebody is available by glancing over that “beloved” open office floor. (image by Slack) Zapier Support for Slack Status Within a days we […]

gitTio acquired by Axway Appcelerator

It has been 1,5 year since I left Appcelerator and after a short adventure at The Things Network I joined Zapier about a year ago. From mobile, to long-range wireless hardware to a platform that connects 750+ cloud apps. No More Titanium I’m at my best when I can focus. That focus is now Zapier. […]

How I stopped Notification Hell

Today is the start of Lent, traditionally a period of fasting leading up to Easter. Not a lot of people fast from food anymore, but modern ways of fasting include anything from going without watching TV or drinking alcohol. 40 Days without Social Media Today, I decided to fast from social media. I’ve removed Twitter […]

All the best TTN… Hi Zapier!

In August I joined The Things Network. My friend Wienke and I had always wanted to work together. My experience with IoT was pretty much limited to a single hackathon, but I could actually use this to my advantage to spot barriers and help build a developer friendly platform. I created a Jekyll-based documentation site, […]

Use Hardware as Trigger for APIs (via Zapier)

MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M) protocol heavily used for the Internet of Things (IoT) because it is an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. The Things Network as well uses MQTT to exchange messages between devices and their online backends – or applications as we call them. The Rise of APIs In the meanwhile, online platforms […]

Use Zapier to monitor webpage fragments

I’ve been a long-time IFTTT user and also wrote many tools to automate what I can. Only recently I noticed Zapier had introduced multi-step zaps and might just save me a lot of custom scripting! It supports a lot of services with many options. And if that still doesn’t get you there, you can run […]

How we built TTN’s Documentation Site

In August, after a well-needed-longer-than-I-had-in-a-long-time ☀️ break, I started at The Things Network. The first weeks have been both exciting and challenging. Hardware is almost completely new to me, yet it is my very job to make our technology more accessible. So why not start with building the documentation site I desperately felt a need […]

The Developer Experience Pyramid

Recently I joined The Things Network to work on the Developer Experience. The Things Network was founded a little over a year ago and has gained huge momentum since. A slot at SXSW, a Kickstarter that raised twice the goal and most important: already 180 communities world-wide building LoRaWAN networks and use cases. With the […]