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Andy Jiang over on the Deno blog writes “If you're not using npm specifiers, you're doing it wrong”: During the early days of Deno, we recommended importing npm packages via HTTP with transpile services such as esm.sh and unpkg.com. However, there are limitations to importi...

Some new links! Huzzah!

• “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” - A “Study”
• Blogging in the age of ‘AI’
• SQL Injection Court (also worth reading this vaguely similar story about 32 million emails)

More soon!

Let’s say you make a UI to gather some user feedback. Nothing complicated. Just a thumbs up/down widget. It starts out neutral, but when the user clicks up or down, you highlight what they clicked an de-emphasize/disable the other (so it requires an explicit toggle to change...

Never store embeddings in a CSV!

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.

Sublime Merge is a fantastic Git client. I’ve been using it for years, even after switching from Sublime Text to VS Code. VS Code has excellent built-in Git support, but I still prefer a dedicated app for staging files. Even when I used Neovim or Emacs (which has Magit, argu...

Do Not Disturb GNOME has a little button that lets you turn on Do-Not-Disturb for notifications: Unfortunately, it has no way of scheduling DnD. Good news, though! It does support turning on DnD through the CLI: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners fa...

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De hele korte versie: het is waanzin om onze maatschappij en overheid over te zetten op Amerikaanse clouds. Niet alleen is het een dom idee gezien wat de “Koning van Amerika” allemaal roept, de juridische fijnslijperij waarmee men dit rechtpraat, zoals bijvoorbeeld te vinden in deze onzinbrief van het kabinet gisteren, is inmiddels door Trump zelf ongeldig gemaakt. En waarom doen we dit? Gebruiksgemak. Maar het is heel eng om met dit argument je samenleving 24/7 afhankelijk te maken van de goeie wil van de Amerikanen.

or what people seem to think it is

Recent ben ik (te?) veel in het nieuws over het belang van het hebben van zelfstandige communicatiemogelijkheden in Nederland en Europa. Mogelijkheden die niet afhankelijk zijn van de goede wil van Amerikanen. En waarbij die ook niet mee kunnen lezen. Op mijn homepage kan je al jaren lezen dat ik vroeger aandeelhouder was van het Duitse bedrijf Open-Xchange. Open-Xchange maakt emailplatformen, met name voor telefoonmaatschappijen en internetbedrijven. Je zou nu kunnen denken, Bert promoot Europese communicatiemogelijkheden omdat hij Open-Xchange wil promoten.

I’ve been working on a transition to using light-dark() function in CSS. What this boils down to is, rather than CSS that looks like this: :root { color-scheme: light; --text: #000; } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { :root { color-scheme: dark; --text: #f...

Slashing and burning won’t help with efficiency.

On commercial open source and the future.

The internet is full of companies run by people who simply don't care.

Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.

So here I am playing with CSS view transitions (again). I’ve got Dave Rupert’s post open in one tab, which serves as my recurring reference for the question, “How do you get these things to work again?” I’ve followed Dave’s instructions for transitioning the page generally a...

So I’m a huge SQLite fanboy and I use it for almost everything these days. Recently, the project added sqlite3_rsync which allows you to swiftly replicate your database to other servers (or to the same server if you want), and this really was the cherry on top for me. Last week however, I ran into one of my projects unexpectedly getting SQLITE_BUSY errors. And then someone urged me to run ‘a real database’ (PostgreSQL), and that hurt.

Het hele rondetafelgesprek van “Digitale soevereiniteit Rijksoverheid” van afgelopen 13 februari 2025 is de moeite waard. Bekijk het hier op de meer dan uitstekende Debat Direct site van de Tweede Kamer. Deelnemers Petra Oldengarm en Reijer Passchier hebben hun reflecties op de bijeenkomst al gedeeld, en ik schreef er al wat over in mijn nieuwsbrief (inschrijven kan via deze link). Hier voor mij twee persoonlijke highlights. Mijn intro: Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.