Bunkering Down by Matt Webb 🔗
Favorited Bunkering Down by Matt Webb After 26 years Matt Webb quits hosting his stuff on his own hardware. Because he feels an extreme asymmetry is c [...]
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Munch’s Sun 🔗
The other week I was in Oslo and visited the Munch museum, taking a break from a marathon meeting schedule. Munch‘s museum holds the largest collectio [...]
The Arc of Browsing Bends Towards Firefox Yet Again 🔗
The Arc Browser will go away by December, as the company behind it will pursue their AI-first browser. I like the Chromium based Arc browser, as it mo [...]
The PHP Interruption 🔗
This site, and my other ones, and my business ones (including our NextCloud), were offline as precaution since yesterday afternoon. I was at LegoWorld [...]
Norwegian Book Shopping 🔗
To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to brid [...]
Laptop Stickers? Nay. 🔗
In reply to Laptop Stickers Yay Or Nay? by Wouter Groeneveld Wouter asks the question below. I never place stickers on my laptop. Not because fear of [...]
Testing Embedding Models For Related Blogposts 🔗
I mentioned wanting to automatically add related blogposts based on comparing embeddings. When Dries Buytaert blogged about it, I wanted to follow his [...]
Y’s First Anki Spaced Repetition Deck 🔗
Y is currently learning European countries and their capitals for school. Of the 45 country/capital combinations to be learned on a blind map, 24 will [...]
In verantwoorde AI botsen deeltjes en golf perspectieven zoals bij licht 🔗
Discussies over verantwoorde toepassing van AI zijn vaak moeizaam omdat verschillende argumenten op heel verschillende beelden van wat AI is zijn geba [...]
Doei!-dag, uitpakdag: Linux smartphone 🔗
Het is weer Doeidag! Elke eerste zondag van de maand aandacht voor hoe je jezelf weer een stapje van BigTech verwijdert. Nou heb ik de afgelopen jaren [...]
Beat Döbeli und das Biblionetz 🔗
Das Biblionetz ist eine einzigartige Website, die mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient. Es beschreibt viele tausende Bücher, Artikel, Texte und Ausschnitte, u [...]
Blog Archiving to Notes and Embeddings 🔗
Last March I made an export from my blog, so that I have all my blogposts since 2002 (some 3800 posts) in my notes locally. This makes it easier to fi [...]
Big Data LDN Impressions 🔗
The past days I was in London to visit the Big Data LDN event and meet with my friend Paolo and his company’s team at Activate Intelligence. It made f [...]
Transparant Lies 🔗
During lunch in Holland Park, London this week, the water bottle had the text ‘ethical glass’. [...]
Die deutschsprachigen Blogwochen 2026 🔗
Die deutsprachigen Blogwochen sind wieder gestartet. Eine Initiative von Robert Lender, Benedikt Müller und Dirk Deimeke, deren Blogs sich schon lange [...]
Treffen wir uns auf der Swiss Data Alliance Konferenz in Lausanne? 🔗
Am 28. Oktober findet in Lausanne in der Schweiz die jährliche Konferenz der Swiss Data Alliance (SDA) statt. Die Swiss Data Alliance ist ein unabhäng [...]
September 18, 2026 3:58 PM
I will be in Lausanne from Monday October 26th late afternoon until Thursday October 29th early morning. I will be in Lausanne for an event by the Swi [...]
September 18, 2026 3:54 PM
I will be in Oslo from Tuesday October 13th early afternoon until Friday October 16th early evening. I will be in Oslo for a CEN/CENELEC JTC25 plenary [...]
Books by Karen Lord 🔗
Earlier this week I read We Will Rise Again, a selection of short sf hopepunk stories and accompanying essays centered on civil disobedience, resistan [...]
September 9, 2026 7:14 PM
I will be in London from Tuesday Sept 22nd late afternoon until Friday Sept 25th morning. I will be in London ao for Big Data LDN. [...]
Saturday Is For Chores 🔗
Walking in the city center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this afternoon, I saw this person fixing their bike. In the midst of shoppers, tools were spread out an [...]
Johnnie Walker van Connie Palmen 🔗
Een literaire memoire van Connie Palmen‘s wording. N.a.v. wat Palmen er in een interview in de Volkskrant over zei had ik heel veel zin in dit boek. W [...]
NOW Page Update 🔗
Service announcement: I have updated my NOW page. A Now page contains the general activities I’m spending time on these days. It contains the things I [...]
Where I Am Now 🔗
This week it’s been a year since my long time friend and business partner Frank died. And it’s been two years and three months since I realised I was [...]
Last First Day of Primary School 🔗
Today school started again, and Y is now going to the final year of primary school, group 8. For each of the school years we took a photo of her leavi [...]