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

10 February 2026

Vibe Coding Didn't Democratize Software, It Tokenized It | Jason Willems

As software development shifts from requiring specialized skills—built on multiple layers of technical understanding—to describing intent in plain English (or your language of choice), the act of producing software appears to become accessible to a much wider audience. The people best positioned to excel may not be well versed in software at all, but rather those who are good at expressing ideas clearly, thinking iteratively, and breaking problems down.

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9 February 2026

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

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9 February 2026

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers

A friend of mine recently attended an open forum panel about how engineering orgs can better support their engineers. The themes that came up were not surprising:

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8 February 2026

Belgian Freelance Day Rates

Community day rate benchmark for freelancers and companies in Belgium.

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5 February 2026

My AI Adoption Journey – Mitchell Hashimoto

My experience adopting any meaningful tool is that I've necessarily gone through three phases: (1) a period of inefficiency (2) a period of adequacy, then finally (3) a period of workflow and life-altering discovery.

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