I'm Joep, 41 years old and currently living in Lieshout in The Netherlands. I went to Eindhoven to study mechanical engineering at TU/e university. After working as a mechanical engineer for 7.5 years I started working on my own company: jodiBooks.

With jodiBooks I learned how to code and host applications, which merged beautifully with my hobby: homelabbing. I'm currently working on a new project where I am learning about LLM agents, communication protocols and more. I hope I am able to share more about this soon.

Joeplaa, pronounce "you-p-laah", is an abbreviation of my full name: Joep van de Laarschot. Initially I started using it to shorten my e-mail address, but it turned into my "official" handle @joeplaa everywhere on the web.

This site is the main portal, linking to my blog and my wiki, places where I collect what keeps me busy, professionally and personally. I use them mostly as "notes to self", so I can find back how I have solved issues in the past. You might find something useful here too.