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November 13, 2026 7:28 PM

Een Doeidag sticker in het wild, terwijl ik wacht tot de Oosterdoksdraaibrug weer dicht gaat. [...]

Quo Vadis? 🔗

Cycling to catch a train, along the Laak river after dropping Y at school. [...]

Global Digital Resilience Testing Day 🔗

My MS Exchange inboxes for client accounts went dark. The global Microsoft outage is affecting my clients’ Microsoft365 environment, including Teams a [...]

Beautiful Particulars by David Weinberger 🔗

David Weinberger published a new book, Beautiful Particulars (How AI’s Attention to the Smallest of Differences Is Reshaping Our Biggest Ideas), which [...]

Self-Hosting Excalidraw Is Not Really Fully Self-Hosted Without Forking 🔗

For a while now I’ve been running an Excalidraw instance on my VPS (with Yunohost). Excalidraw is a virtual whiteboard, and a useful tool to me. Excal [...]

24 Years of Blogging 🔗

On this day 24 years ago at 14:07 I posted my first blogpost. This post is just a brief moment of reflection for myself, and a way to mark the differe [...]

Good Enough Jumps the Model Gap and Avoids AI Lock-in 🔗

The shiny new tech syndrome makes us focus on always wanting to work with the latest greatest AI models, almost by default. And switching away from on [...]

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 [...]

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’. [...]

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