Nicole van der Hoeven

@nicole@pkm.social
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(she/her) I'm a Developer Advocate by day and YouTuber by night. I like to talk about observability, software testing, learning in public, and taking notes, particularly in Obsidian.

I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch cis pansexual polyamorous agnostic polyglot. If any of that makes you uncomfortable, you probably shouldn't follow me...

Talk to me in: TL EN NL ES EO DE FR IT PT SV. I might not respond fluently after the first five, but I'll respond!

I own and manage pkm.social.

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Nicole van der HoevenMay 23
Playing around with @obsidian Bases, which is a native Dataview-like table view. Embeddable too, and much more performant. Miss the query language, but maybe that's just me.
Nicole van der HoevenApr 23

Sometimes I learn how to do something quickly for work and don't have time to turn what I've learned into “proper" notes. Enter the humble devlog.

A devlog is the minimum note I'll keep while I'm doing something technical, and it's usually just a section in my daily note. It's a running log of everything I've tried, including snippets of code/terminal commands. Here's me trying to consolidate devlogs from when I learned how to deploy Loki on k8s in GCP via Helm.

https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Deploying+Loki+on+GCP

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Deploying Loki on GCP - Fork My Brain

Deploying Loki on GCP Deploying Loki on GCP.svg You can deploy Loki on Kubernetes in GCP using: Google Cloud Storage as a storage for Loki GKE running on Google Compute Engine worker nodes Helm chart…

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Nicole van der HoevenMar 16
I did something brave yesterday and gave a really personal talk at #pkmsummit2025. It felt liberating to be very open with so many people. Still flying high from the support! Cool to introduce my anchor partner Noel to this welcoming community, too!
Nicole van der HoevenMar 15
Feeling super happy to have met friends old and new at #pkmsummit2025. What a lovely reminder that I’m part of this wonderful community of note taking nerds.
Nicole van der HoevenMar 14
Best seat at the #pkmsummit2025 so far!
Nicole van der HoevenJan 16
Another year down. I celebrated my birthday in Efes, Turkey, exploring the site of the ancient Greek city Ephesus with my anchor partner Noel. I’m grateful to have survived last year and filled with joy and hope for the year to come!
Nicole van der HoevenDec 26
We're having fun with this AI accent guesser: https://start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser Nice try, AI. But wrong! I get this a lot, though!
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Nicole van der HoevenDec 12
Forget Spotify Wrapped... I live by my calendar, so Reclaim Wrapped was both terribly confronting and interesting.
Nicole van der HoevenDec 8
Spotify Wrapped gets it. I find I need to take MORE notes, not less, when lots of things are happening in my life. I really struggle to process my feelings otherwise. I feel like I’ve taken more notes and in more varied media (analog, e-ink, video, audio) this year than the last several years combined.
Nicole van der HoevenNov 13, 2024
I’m at #kubecon in Salt Lake City Utah this week. If you’re here too, come by and say hi at the Grafana booth or at my talk later at 4:30pm! https://kccncna2024.sched.com/event/1i7m6
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