Deep Linking Anton 🔗
An odd Wikipedia reference led me to the source of my name as well as mid 16th century ancestry. Last week I wrote about the search where my first nam [...]
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Bridges and Conversations as Pivots 🔗
Favorited Never Blow Up Your Bridges by Wouter Groeneveld Wouter talks about the weak ties across the years that in hindsight turn out to be key in ma [...]
March 6, 2026 12:05 PM
It seems to me that LinkedIn is enshittifying their internal search. In the past weeks I frequently don’t get any results when searching for someone I [...]
The Anton Link 🔗
Where does my first name (Anton) come from? This weekend I explored the public archives a bit. Thanks to open data efforts, these days a lot of public [...]
What About Cognitive Debt In Our Slow AI Organisations? 🔗
If we view companies as slow AI, and thus at risk of #cognitivedebt as much as #vibecoding product releases, the question is: what have we come up wit [...]
Wasserspiel by Tim Staffel 🔗
This 2025 novel by German author Tim Staffel centers on the geopolitical and commercial exploitation of water, in times where fresh water is getting s [...]
On Heritrix Crawler and Internet Archiving 🔗
After being informed about the intention of the Royal Library to archive my website, I wondered how some of the aspects my site has may affect what is [...]
RSS is Awesome 🔗
Favorited the rss-feed of the blog by Manuel Moreale Shout-out to Manuel Moreale for his footer message under each item in his RSS feed. Likewise! Tha [...]
Bringing Claude Code to the Local Machine 🔗
Na een Claude Code sessie met @frank@indieweb.social vrijdag, waarin ik mijn bestaande persoonlijke feedreader wat oppoetste, wilde ik wel meer. Maar [...]
Baroco by Martin Horváth 🔗
Came across this 2025 book in a Bregenz book store, Brunner, last summer while visiting the Austrian alps, and later looked for it online. Set in an a [...]
January 31, 2026 8:22 AM
Bookmarked Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’ (by Gizmodo) Vimeo was bought by the infamous Italian Bendin [...]
Digital Longevity Through the Dutch Royal Library 🔗
Yesterday I received word from the Dutch Royal Library that this weblog will be included in their digital archives from now on. The Dutch Royal Librar [...]
Get a Free Ticket for PKM Summit 2026! 🔗
I have been interested in personal knowledge management (pkm) for a very long time. I have been an avid notes maker ever since I learned to write. Dig [...]
First Day of School, Reprise 🔗
Although it’s January, and nominally the middle of the school year, a new ‘back to school’ photo is warranted. Y starts in group 7 today, skipping a y [...]
Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao 🔗
Enjoyable and whimsical fantasy story set in Japan by Phillipines based author Samantha Sotto Yambao. A young woman runs a pawnshop for choices people [...]
Mayday Belarus, or How Belarussian Amateur Radio Operators Are Arrested for Treason 🔗
Belarus is prosecuting licensed ham radio operators for treason and espionage. Because they use their equipment to have conversations with people arou [...]
Moran in Chief 🔗
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to t [...]
Goodbye Rob 🔗
(I wrote this in September, only posting it now) I started blogging in late 2002. In May 2003 Rob Paterson popped up in my comments, based on Prince E [...]
January 18, 2026 3:46 PM
I will be in Madrid from Monday Feb 9th late afternoon until Thursday Feb 12th noon. I will be in Madrid for the 2026 edition of the annual Data Space [...]
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo 🔗
Enjoyable 2013 debut novel by Yangsze Choo. Set in historic, what is now Malaysia, and following Malaya Chinese families into a parallel ghost world, [...]
Prompt Engineering Myself 🔗
In my recovery from burn-out, I’m balancing my energy, learning to take the right amount of rest and breaks, and better follow my energy when doing wo [...]
Koppermaandag and Artisanal Knowledge Work 🔗
Het is Koppermaandag! Vanuit mijn perspectief op kenniswerk sluit ik me vandaag eens aan bij die lange traditie. Shout-out naar @roy@yoroy.eu voor de [...]
Not the Elves 🔗
Last Thursday our Christmas tree was picked up by the grower again. Every year we get the same tree, delivered to our door in December, picked up agai [...]
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 🔗
Loved this. Nicely interwoven stories, and the book title triggered all the right associations. We follow a budding and then successful SF author, as [...]
Bookmarked: The only frontend stack we should talk about 🔗
Bookmarked The only frontend stack we should talk about (by NetzArtist) Yes! HTML for semantics and accessibility CSS for layout and visual aesthetics [...]