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Link dump: softporn, the secret of life & much more

Hey there, Hope you’re all having a nice week. I asked the GPT-3 A.I. to write this brief introduction, but it was not only boring as hell, it was lying too. I’m not going to teach you how to make a cup of coffee. Here’s

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What we owe the future

I just finished reading What we owe the future by philosopher William MacAskill. And it blew my mind. This book is all about longtermism, or how we today can affect the positive outlook for mankind for thousands of years to come. Even though times are very grim today, this book

3 min read #book

Link dump - week 40

Good day to you all! Another edition of what’s now seemingly turning into my own personal newsletter. If you’d like to receive this in your mailbox every week, you can find a form at the end of this. The Leeds 13 Way back in 1998 a group of

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Link dump - week 39

Howdy! A few weeks ago I linked to DiffusionBee, an app that makes it easy to run Stable Diffusion, which is an algorithm similar to DALL-E 2 on your M1/M2 Mac. Sadly, Intel Mac users couldn’t use it. But since version 0.2 they can also join

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Link dump - week 38

Here I am again with my weekly collection of links. But I forgot to bookmark the most interesting video I saw this week. Do you know how petrol pumps know how to turn themselves off? Turns out it’s caused by an engineering marvel. Coding Roadroller: Flattens Your JavaScript Demo

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Fixing "The chromium binary is not available for arm64"

When installing Puppeteer on your new shiny M1/M2 powered Mac, you might come across this error message, when trying to install the Puppeteer NPM package: The chromium binary is not available for arm64: If you are on Ubuntu, you can install with: apt-get install chromium-browser Fear not,

1 min read #coding#javascript

Link dump - week 37

Welcome to the weekly dump of even more links. Goodbye DALL-E, it’s now possible to run the stable diffusion algorithm on your M1/M2 Mac, using the DiffusionBee UI. No more spending all your money on DALL-E credits. And you can ask for NSFW prompts, that’s

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Link dump - week 36

Let’s write a brief introductory paragraph this week. This is a summary of all the interesting links I’ve saved to my bookmark manager, Raindrop.io, in the past week. Every week, a small script starts on an Amazon server, and automatically creates a draft blog post on my

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Weekly linkdump (week 35)

Coding GitHub – jbranchaud/til: Today I Learned :memo: Today I Learned. Contribute to jbranchaud/til development by creating an account on GitHub. ▶️ Bun and Deno: New Runtimes for the Third Age of JavaScript (Full Talk rerecorded) How to step up your GitHub game with “Saved Replies” In my personal opinion,

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Weekly linkdump (week 34)

Coding ▶️ John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips ▶️ Astro just Launched…. Could it be the ultimate web framework?Astro version 1.0 just launched giving developers a way to build server-rendered websites with any JavaScript framework. It uses the isl… ▶️ I built a JavaScript frameworkLearn

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Weekly linkdump (week 33)

Coding Blitz.js – The Missing Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js Blitz picks up where Next.js leaves off, providing battle-tested libraries and conventions for shipping and scaling world wide applications. Will Bun JavaScript Take Node’s Crown Bun is the newest and fastest all-in-one JavaScript framework. Will

2 min read #coding#funny

Weekly linkdump (week 32)

Coding ⌘K Fast, composable, unstyled command menu for React. nearform/lyra: ???? Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript. ???? Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, full-text search engine written in TypeScript. – nearform/lyra: ???? Fast, in-memory, typo-tolerant, … Mailing Build + test + send emails with React GitHub

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Weekly linkdump (week 31)

AutoAnimate – Add motion to your apps with a single line of code A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that automatically adds smooth transitions to your web app. Use it with React, Vue, Svelte, or … Eight photo-centric social sites that are not Instagram Show off your photography in these

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👋 VRT.

Ik suck in eindes. En ik suck in afscheid nemen. Donderdag was mijn allerallerlaatste werkdag bij VRT. Meer dan acht jaar heb ik daar gezeten. Ik, de jobhopper, die op alle jobs ervoor gemiddeld 2 jaar ergens op post bleef. 2013. Na een klein jaar werken voor Bonka Circus was

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Weekly linkdump (week 30)

TempleOS in 100 Seconds TempleOS is an open-source 64-bit operating system created by Terry Davis and designed to be the Third Temple prophesied by the Bible. I… Ready or not, the Glassholes are coming back Much has changed over the past decade. The Apple Store Time Machine An

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My home office setup, a quick tour

Since I’ll be working from home completely starting in September, I started watching a lot of home office improvement videos on YouTube. My desk was always a mess, with too much stuff on it, leaving me easily distracted. So, I made some changes, making my office a much more

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Arc: redefining the web browser

A few days ago, I received an invitation by The Browser Company Of New York, to test their take on the modern web browser: Arc. The web as a platform has gotten much better these past few years. Web browsers, however, have been all really kind of the same since

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I created a small Google Chrome extension

Have you ever opened a new tab in Google Chrome and became totally blown away by how cool your new empty tab looked? Of course not. New tabs are boring. A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Plasmo, a framework for creating browser extensions. They promise to be battery-packed,

1 min read #code#extension

Best Kept Secret 2022

Memories of a festival. Top 5 bands: * Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (*****) * Fontaines D.C. (*****) * The Strokes (****) * dEUS (***) * 2manydj’s (****)

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I ❤️ HomePod Mini

Our kids need music to fall asleep. Our oldest daughter loves listening to theme park tunes before closing her eyes (she’s a massive fan of De Efteling). Before, this meant waiting besides her bed, with the music playing on your phone, until she finally dozes off. There were two

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Ik ga werken bij Automattic

Read the English version Na 8 jaar trek ik eind augustus de deur van de VRT achter me dicht. Acht boeiende jaren, waar ik in een volgende blogpost nog wel uitgebreid op terugkijk. Op 5 september begin ik te werken als Software Engineer bij Automattic, het bedrijf van Matt Mullenweg,

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I'm starting at Automattic

Lees de Nederlandstalige versie At the end of August, after more than 8 years, I will leave my current company (VRT). Eight exciting years, which I will look back at in detail in a subsequent blog post. On September 5th, I will start working as a Software Engineer at Automattic,

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Back to WordPress(.com)

After some years of running this blog on Ghost, I’ve decided to switch back to WordPress. Ghost has made incredible progress during the past 9 years. But their focus has been on paid memberships and empowering creators for a while. This change of direction made me feel I’m

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My 2022 (mostly frontend) programming stack

This post is a post that’s been in my draft folder for way too long. I’ve wanted to write about my current programming stack for a while. This post is an overview of all the languages, frameworks, services, and tools I’ve been using in 2022. Where I

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Project MiSTer: de ultieme retromachine

Ik heb iets met nostalgie. Ik heb ook iets met oude computers en consoles. Hoe graag ik ook de laatste next-gen games speel op m’n Xbox, ergens heb ik diep vanbinnen een heel weke plek voor de tijd dat personages gewoon een hoopje pixels waren. Daarom heb ik

8 min read #emulatie#fpga