Four Gun Salute Going To The Office 🔗
The Open State Foundation has its office on the old naval yard in the heart of Amsterdam. Right next to the national maritime museum, in the 17th cent [...]
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Zeg DOEI! tegen Big Tech 🔗
Het is DOEI! Dag, de eerste zondag van de maand om mezelf en anderen aan te moedigen weer een stapje te zetten weg van BigTech. Stap je mee? Blogpost [...]
June 5, 2026 2:02 PM
Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter Groeneveld On occasion I’ve mentioned here that one way of ensuring longevity of [...]
Data Space Standardisation in a Volcano 🔗
Trains at Atocha station Madrid I spent the week in Ciudad Real in Spain, under an hour by high speed train (~200km) south of Madrid. I was there for [...]
A Different Script Is Not a Code To Crack – Greek Edition 🔗
There is a lot of sloppy journalism out there. Obvious questions not asked, basic facts not gotten straight, numbers literally not adding up, tens to [...]
Meeting Friends in Rotterdam 🔗
This weekend we took a train to Rotterdam. We decided to spend a day there, as our Canadian friends Peter and Lisa were coming up from Bruges in Belgi [...]
Portugal in Spring 🔗
We spent a week and a half in Portugal this spring. Traveling together is something we do well with the three of us, and something I find healing. Alt [...]
A Short Walk 🔗
As I mentioned in my previous post The Long Walk, I struggle to get out of the house and away from my laptop to take short walks in the neighbourhood [...]
The Long Walk 🔗
It is now two years ago that during a day trip E and I had a conversation about my wellbeing in which I broke down in tears and we came to the conclus [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]