[Meetup] March 2026

[TomCools]

Task List

Preparation

• Find speaker(s)
• Find location (Brussel)
• Determine date (24th of March)
• Announce event on Meetup.com
• Add event to website
• Promote on social media

After the event

• Send mail to attendees to wrap up
• Shoutouts on social media
• Share content (slides / video / images) if/when available
• Promote next event (If available)

Context and additional details

[badrkacimi]

🤞🏻

[TomCools]

Checking with Olivier to co-host in Brussels

[badrkacimi]

Can we do the event after 19 of march ?

[TomCools]

@badrkacimi , sure :)

[TomCools]

@badrkacimi we managed to find a place for the 24th of March in Brussels, does that work for you?

[badrkacimi]

@TomCools perfect ! I will share later the topic, as I changed it from the last time

[wimdetroyer]

I might be able to speak a little bit about the set-up of my RPi homeserver and the apps I deployed on them.

I fully leaned in to the whole "AI native" workflow.

It'd show the set-up, How I prompted with Claude Code, lessons learned, and how much time i saved(wasted? ;-) )

Not sure how long it would take and how much time I would be able to get.

EDIT: think it would be around 20 mins. A quickie.

[TomCools]

We can 2 quickies + Badr for the main talk, already had someone but they get 15 minutes then.

@badrkacimi and @wimdetroyer , can you provide a bio, title and an abstract?

[nhumblot]

Hi, great to see you coming to Brussels! I should be able to attend the event and can help into the organization if needed. 🙂

[wimdetroyer]

as promised @TomCools

bio:

Wim is a freelance Software Engineer from Belgium with around 7 years of experience

He focuses on backend web development, using the Spring Framework on a daily basis.

He's a firm believer in learning something new everyday (not just about java or spring!) and doing so in public is always the greatest motivator.

So he blogs on wimdetroyer.com, and talks occasionally in front of an audience when he can muster up the courage.

title:

"Vibe Coding a Home Server on the Raspbery Pi: What AI-Native Development Actually Looks Like"

abstract:

It's been over 3 years since the release of ChatGPT and the innovations in the AI space still do not seem to be slowing down.

On the contrary, agentic tooling like Claude Code and Codex have since launched, kept improving, and according to some have now recently reached an inflection point where they can handle long running coding tasks (mostly) unsupervised.

Let's find out together if those claims hold up and what that new AI native development looks like.

We'll do this by showcasing a very personal case study.

Over the past few months, I've developed a home-server setup on my raspberry pi with tons of weird and quirky apps all developped with varying degrees of AI assistance.

Join me to find out how that went, how much time I saved (or wasted!) and my biggest take-aways and future plans.