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 with the help of Claude Code. The results worked, but he hated how it made him feel. He explores those opposing outcomes without […]

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’ code production (x lines committed this week, yay!) by using AI, will likely cause more trouble in an organisation. Because the theory-of-constraints bottleneck in an organisation will never be […]

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 amount of links in mine choked the harvester it seems. Since 2007 the Royal Library has been archiving websites, and now stores some 25.000 websites. My […]

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. While the term agency turned out to be unknown to almost all participants, that is of course what such tools create. The ability to do things, individually or as […]

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 welcoming space to make something by hand at an event full of inspiring but abstract conversations and talks. A simple ‘zine folded from an A4 paper provides six small […]

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 of sunshine and walk around town. Ending up in the Steven Sterk book shop I also browsed the shelves there a bit. One title, From The Winter Archives, […]

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 schoolwork that deals with ancestry and namesakes. In parallel E did her own deep dive, with some vibe coding assistance, working her way to transform her WordPress site […]

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 grandfather (born 1903), and his paternal line has several men named Anton (my first name) in a side branch, originating from his great uncle in 1803 (and his […]

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 named after someone. Some time ago from her grandmother, the namesake of her second name, she received a set of multiple ‘birth spoons‘, marked with the […]

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 name Anton came from, beyond being named after my maternal grandfather Anton Arnold Bast (1903-1969). I concluded it came from my grandfather’s great uncle, Anton Link […]

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 making a next step, changing course or enter new fields. Never burn bridges he concludes. I never applied for any of my jobs or roles. At one point […]

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 met inside LinkedIn (the website, or the mobile app). Yet, when I search for them online generally, I get the link to their LinkedIn profile as the very first […]

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 archives are online and made fully searchable. The trigger was a conversation with Y about first names and being named after someone else (Y’s second name is […]

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 with to deal with cognitive debt in organisations? Intuitively I'd say reporting chains, KPIs, middle management, consultancy. I fear that means we really didn't, just added management theater and reorganisation rituals. Bc which board actually fully understands the org they're steering?

This 2025 novel by German author Tim Staffel centers on the geopolitical and commercial exploitation of water, in times where fresh water is getting scarce as climate changes, glaciers melt, and aquifers get depleted. The protagonist, who has a fear of water, is a world wide activist on the human right to potable water, exposing […]

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 being collected. Specifically: Most of my postings are kept away from the front page but end up in specific categories. These postings do show up in monthly […]

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! Thank you for keeping RSS alive. You’re awesome. Manuel Moreale

Na een Claude Code sessie met @frank@indieweb.social vrijdag, waarin ik mijn bestaande persoonlijke feedreader wat oppoetste, wilde ik wel meer. Maar dan lokaal, en dat blijkt te kunnen. Claude Code kan lokaal Ollama / LM Studio gebruiken.