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”

FOSDEM

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This weekend, FOSDEM is taking place in Brussels. Unlike most conferences, it stands out for the sheer breadth of its topics: from geospatial technologies to a panel discussion on what browsers might look like in 2026, from concurrency and testing in Go to talks on why you might not need an ORM at all — and much more.

For me, one of the main challenges is coming up with a useful way to select the most interesting talks without missing too much.

Since FOSDEM provides an XML feed (https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/xml) with all the events and speaker bios, I thought it would be interesting to let Claude build a nice site on top of that.

After about 50 prompts — and mostly steering things in the direction of UX — I think the result isn’t bad at all. Check it out at https://fosdem.hello-data.nl.

It even implemented an important feature to put overlapping events in the ‘My Events’ next to each other so you visually know that you cant go to both events since they overlap.

Recent Notes

6 April 2026

Introducing the Symfony Tui Component (Symfony Blog)

I'm thrilled to announce a brand new Symfony component: Tui, a PHP library for building rich, interactive terminal user interfaces.

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5 April 2026

Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI - Lalit Maganti

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding agents4. Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI...

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4 April 2026

Stop the brain rot! 12 ways to stay sharp in a mind-frazzling world | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

Feel like too much low-quality screen time is making you … dumber? From focusing on your environment to ‘washing’ your brain, experts share tips on how to sharpen up and keep your mind fighting fit

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3 April 2026

A Community for Naturalists · iNaturalist

iNaturalist is a social network for naturalists! Record your observations of plants and animals, share them with friends and researchers, and learn about the natural world.

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31 March 2026

Good Code Will Still Win | Greptile Blog

Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.

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