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

17 May 2026

Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise

Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.

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16 May 2026

Ultimate Hacking Keyboard - The keyboard. For professionals.

The Keyboard. For Professionals.

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14 May 2026

OpenData Vector: MIT-licensed Vector Search on Object Storage | OpenData

An MIT-licensed, stateless vector search engine built on SlateDB that runs anywhere with object storage and serves 100M vectors for roughly $350/mo.

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12 May 2026

What a Japanese cooking principle taught me about overcoming AI fatigue

Hey, what's up? It's Takuya. I've been thinking about how to live well in this AI era as a developer, content creator, and artist. By “living well,” I mean enjoying the act of creating while maintaining good mental health. I imagine many of my readers are also wondering how to survive — and even thrive — amid the rapid changes brought by recent AI advancements. I don’t have all the answers. No one can predict the future precisely. But I believe it’s more a matter of direction than strategy —

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12 May 2026

Developer experience is a performance feature | Christian Rackerseder

Optimizing developer experience often has a bigger long-term impact than optimizing rendering benchmarks or bundle size. Faster engineers build better software.

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12 May 2026

Fake building: Claude wrote 3,000 lines instead of import pywikibot | FireflySentinel

TL;DR. Claude would rather reinvent the wheel than pip install one.

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9 May 2026

Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially? — Toby Ord

There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t

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