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

5 September 2026

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems — Sylvain Kalache

AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.

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2 September 2026

You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters | Hacker News

Ultimately this isn't "AI's fault". As the article points out, clueless executives who don't understand the capabilities and limitations of specific LLMs push the technology on workers so they can say they are "using AI to improve efficiency".

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30 August 2026

No AI Fridays

A weekly ritual for software teams to unplug from AI coding assistants, prevent skill atrophy, and rediscover the joy of craftsmanship.

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24 August 2026

AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye

The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.

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24 August 2026

The Future Belongs To The Weird

the gospel for those out of distribution

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23 August 2026

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

Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns

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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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