Taking notes

I started this idea at the end of 2022. There are so many interesting articles, blog posts, and people showcasing what they build, but it’s simply too much to consume it all at once.  So I wondered: what if I had a good way to collect all of this and make it easy to revisit whenever I want?

 

Over time, that idea grew into this site — a personal collection of links (which I call notes) covering all kinds of topics that I, as a web developer, find interesting.

 

Just recently, I came across this YouTube video that made everything click. From that moment on, it became clear to me that I’ve been building a digital garden all along.

 

You can read more about the technical journey behind this digital garden on “What’s behind all this”

 

What do i listen to

podcast

Below you find some of my favourite podcasts, including links (which i just load in VLC player)

Game Dev Field Guide

https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:787900348/sounds.rss

13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II

https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/w13xttx2.rss

Bureau Buitenland (dutch)

https://podcast.npo.nl/feed/bureau-buitenland.xml

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

https://rss.pdrl.fm/2d4b16/feeds.simplecast.com/_IjaDYAj

The Fall of Rome Podcast

https://rss.art19.com/the-fall-of-rome-podcast

Tides of History

https://rss.art19.com/tides-of-history

Recent Notes

23 August 2026

Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns

artificial intelligence code quality coding assistant

21 August 2026

How To Not Die By A Thousand Cuts. Or, How To Think About Software Quality.

Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.

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21 August 2026

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — Ankur Sethi's Lab Notebook

Despite what I said in April, I'm still using coding assistants on my personal projects.

artificial intelligence

21 August 2026

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

I really like personal blogs. I read them for entertainment, learning, and to keep myself updated on the latest trends in software engineering. I prefer to read them in a horizontal position, like on a couch or a deckchair outside in the sun. That explains why I almost never read them on my computer and always on my phone. I don’t necessarily enjoy that, though, since it makes my eyes tired.

hardware e-reader

21 August 2026

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers — Senko Rašić

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

artificial intelligence critics passion career

21 August 2026

tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open | bobdahacker

How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.

artificial intelligence security

13 August 2026

Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology

Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.

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