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

21 June 2026

AI in Engineering Teams: ROI, Code Review, and Hiring

At a Shift CTO Craft dinner in Toronto, senior engineering leaders debated AI ROI, code review bottlenecks, hiring, cognitive debt, and vendor lock-in.

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21 June 2026

AI Has Broken Hiring. Here’s How to Fix It.

Hiring managers need new methods to assess authenticity and competence.

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21 June 2026

The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz

I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction."  My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to advise: >

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18 June 2026

AI Economics for Dummies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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18 June 2026

Submission.Directory · Find where to submit your website.

A hand-picked directory of website submission sites. Find the best places to submit your website, startup, or product, earn quality backlinks, and rank higher across search engines and AI answers.

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17 June 2026

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

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11 June 2026

Build a Basic AI Agent From Scratch

Roger Oriol

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