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

11 July 2026

Ship That Code — Build Real Systems, Not Tutorials

Learn programming by building real systems from scratch. Redis, Git, a database, a compiler — every lesson is choose, write, run.

misc learning

6 July 2026

Live train map
data

6 July 2026

Carto tchoo
data

29 June 2026

Software Engineering in the Age of AI

For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code.

artificial intelligence critics coding assistant

29 June 2026

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration inside Model API | vLLM Blog

How vLLM Semantic Router turns vllm-sr/auto into a bounded micro-agent runtime for Confidence, Ratings, ReMoM, Fusion, Workflows, and benchmark-shaped collaboration.

artificial intelligence

28 June 2026

Agentics / Tech Things: Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.

artificial intelligence

24 June 2026

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson & Johnson web apps

Campus Recruiting vulnerability exposed student information, and Audit Tracking Management System vulnerability exposed confidential internal audit data.

backend security