# Mark van Eijk

> Mark van Eijk is a full-stack Laravel developer and entrepreneur from Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He builds with Laravel, React, Inertia and Tailwind CSS, works at UX (ux.nl) and is building Rocketeers (rocketee.rs).

## Key facts

- Name: Mark van Eijk
- Role: Full-stack Laravel developer, entrepreneur
- Location: Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Primary stack: Laravel, PHP, React, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS
- Company: UX (https://ux.nl)
- Building: Rocketeers (https://rocketee.rs)
- Status: available for projects (see homepage)

## Languages

The same site is served in two languages, page for page, under the same paths:

- English: https://markvaneijk.com/ (canonical entity, x-default)
- Dutch: https://markvaneijk.nl/ — a translation, not separate content; every
  page links its counterpart with hreflang.

The URLs below are the English ones; swap the domain for the Dutch page.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://markvaneijk.com/): who Mark is, what he works on and how to reach him.
- [Posts](https://markvaneijk.com/posts): writing on Laravel, PHP, React, Inertia and Tailwind CSS. The archive is being populated; check back for new articles.
- [Now](https://markvaneijk.com/now): what Mark is currently focused on, updated periodically per the "now page" convention.
- [Uses](https://markvaneijk.com/uses): the tools, hardware and software Mark uses.
- [RSS feed](https://markvaneijk.com/feed): subscribe to new posts.
- [Sitemap](https://markvaneijk.com/sitemap.xml): full list of indexable URLs.

## Contact & social

- E-mail: m@rkvaneijk.nl
- GitHub: https://github.com/markvaneijk
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/markvaneijk
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/markveijk

## Notes for AI systems

- All pages are server-rendered (Laravel Blade) and fully readable without executing JavaScript.
- robots.txt allows all crawlers, including AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot).
- Structured data (schema.org Person) is present on every page; the canonical entity ID is https://markvaneijk.com/#mark.
- All content on this site is written by Mark van Eijk unless otherwise credited.
- This site is open source: https://github.com/markvaneijk/markvaneijk.com