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Google en Apple voegen half mei nieuwe functionaliteit toe aan Android en iOS om het registreren van mogelijke coronavirus-contacten mogelijk te maken. Contact tracing, noemen ze het. En het wordt een privacy-vriendelijker optie gebaseerd op Bluetooth LE (nerdy PDF alert). De Nederlandse corona-apps Die gedeelde aankondiging sluit natuurlijk perfect aan op het nieuws van afgelopen …
So, you wanted to follow this nice website for new content, but it doesn’t have an RSS feed yet? Don’t worry, because Inoreader got you covered, again! Introducing Web feeds
Whenever you see a web page with a series of updates, be it news articles, blog posts, classifieds, product updates, weath…
In Europe, officials, doctors and engineers are looking at how smartphones could be enlisted in the war against the spread of the new coronavirus.
TiddlyWiki is most often used as a private wiki for personal note taking and creating private journals.
Because it is a single text file usually named index.html written in HTML, CSS and some JavaScript, I thought it would make an ideal candidate for a simple-to-use personal website that can be ho…

Everything changed in the blink of an eye.
I remember when I experienced my first earthquake. I was standing in a house in Berkeley, all white plaster over wooden walls, and it was like a wave suddenly passed through it. In an instant, the walls flexed and curved like butter. My reassuring knowledg…
We’ve been in ‘soft lock-down’ for just over 2 weeks now. Soft, because it is lock-down in all but name. You can still be outside, but not anywhere with more than 2 at the same time at the suggested distance of at least 1.5 meters (except if you’re a family). In practice it means only going …
People have been criticised for writing about trivial things during the Coronavirus pandemic. By “trivial” they usually mean anything not related to the current situation. It’s true that the things I normally focus on aren’t important right now. I have found myself not posting about them because I didn’t want
you can just write about the things you love.
In tijden als deze, wordt er altijd opgeroepen in actie te komen, in beweging te komen en bij te dragen. Maar wat kun jij eigenlijk? Wat kan ik eigenlijk?
Met het thuiswerken de afgelopen week en de komende weken komen er denk ik hele horden mensen achter dat als er echt iets aan de hand is in Neder…
Ik heb het nu even moeilijk. Het is nu meer dan een week dat ik me afsluit voor de wereld en los van een paar wandelingen kom ik ergens. Maar ik woon aan een weg, en de grote hoeveelheid auto’s die daar overheen gaan stelt me zwaar te moede.
Ik chatte vanochtend met wat mensen via een niet nader t…
Well, not EVERY ONE . . .
I have been reading ‘Blogs’ for as long as I have been “surfing” the web (it’s that a term I can still use?), even if at the time I wasn’t aware of what I was reading was a blog. To me was probably just another website. Then I started to get more serious about it and read more of some pe…

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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but a while back I added a nifty feature to posts on this site which displays activity from Twitter and Mastodon (likes, retweets, replies) on each post. In most cases, more responses to my work happen on social media…
Heeft het nog zin, bloggen in 2020? En wat als je net van start wilt gaan met bloggen, kan het nog? Natuurlijk. Hier lees je waarom. En hoe!

When, in early 2013, Catherine suggested that we look into getting an autism assistance dog for Oliver, I thought it was an inane idea: she wanted to take our already chaotic family and inject another complicating element into it?!
But I humored her, and agreed to hear the idea out and meet with a t…
We just published “The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication”. It’s a collection of philosophies and day-to-day practices that help guide the way we communicate with each other…