Stop and think 🔗
In reply to Stop and think by Paolo Valdemarin This made me stop and think. My company contains a well above average number of actual philosophers, 50 [...]
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Three AI Helper Experiments in Information Habits 🔗
In the past week I’ve started three personal experiments that use AI (in this case Claude Code). For each, the experiment lies in automating steps in [...]
Kindle Unlimited Exclusivity 🔗
Since the start of last year I have not been spending any money at Amazon. I’ve been happily buying my reading elsewhere. Today for the first time I r [...]
Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI 🔗
Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI by Matt Webb I see this being adopted around me too. Not just CLI’s though, also more APIs, pulling in d [...]
When My Grandfather Took a Train Trip With a Bull 🔗
My grandfather Klaas Zijlstra (1905-1993) was a farmer and cattle raiser. He grew up in Fryslân and always wanted to be a farmhand it seems (his fathe [...]
Radio-gerucht in Amersfoort! Houdt deuren en vensters gesloten! 🔗
Uit de Haagse krant van woensdag 25 juli 1928: Tegen radio-gerucht Raad van Amersfoort neemt maatregelen De Gemeenteraad van Amersfoort heeft een vero [...]
Manipulating My E-Books 🔗
Earlier this week I started reading an ebook and was a bit irritated because the book did not show me a table of contents. This seems to be a regular [...]
human.json 🔗
Favorited AI Policy and Human.json by Claudine Chionh Favorited Adding human.json to WordPress by Terence Eden Claudine Chionh and Terence Eden both m [...]
The Phenomenology of Using AI For Coding 🔗
Favorited I used AI. It worked. I hated it. by Michael Taggart An excellent post by Michael Taggart on how it felt to him to make a much needed bit of [...]
Code Production Is Not The Constraint 🔗
Favorited If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems by Andrew Murphy Good blogpost on how ‘speeding up’ cod [...]
On Harvesting for the Royal Library Or How A Blog Breaks The Archive 🔗
My website is now part of the web archive in the Dutch Royal Library. It took some experimenting to get it in there. Blogs will be blogs and the amoun [...]
A Rising New Era of Personal Tools 🔗
At PKM Summit this weekend one thing that stood out was that many have started creating their own tools, and were using vibecoding to create them. Whi [...]
The Threefold Personal KM Zine 🔗
At the European PKM Summit the past two days, Frank Meeuwsen ran a continuous atelier where people could make their own ‘zines and lino cuts. A welcom [...]
The Winter Archive or Seasonal Notes? 🔗
I attended the PKM Summit the past days in Utrecht. It was fun and inspiring. During the extended lunchbreak yesterday I went outside to enjoy a bit o [...]
Side Interests and Their Arrow of Time 🔗
In the past few weeks I’ve been diving into the online genealogical open data that is available, triggered by a conversation with Y about some of her [...]
Not that Anton, the other Arnold 🔗
It turns out that in my previous search for my oldest findable namesake I was barking up literally the wrong tree. I am named after my maternal grandf [...]
Y’s Ancestral Wheel 🔗
The past days ancestors have been part of our conversation at home, as it is part of Y’s current work at school. We started with the concept of being [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]