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.