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Minimalism and Tidying Up by Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)

I have a confession to make. I love cleaning up. Throwing things away. Tidying up. Getting rid of things. I have read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, The Story of Stuff, and The Power of Less. The appeal of minimalism is great, but it somehow never works. I also rebuy things in regret (see co…

Experimenting with personal databases and the web as a texture

Why I Play Games (And So Should You) by Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)

Yesterday, after another quick (and disappointing) bicycle ride to the local retro game store, I started wondering: why do I actually still play video games? I’m 36 now, shouldn’t I stop doing that and find another decent and more respected hobby? That is what the funny looks thrown my way make …

Het begon allemaal bij een foto die ik zag op een Discord-server. Ik ben al jaren (tien, ongeveer) een trouw gebruiker van de ingebouwde MacBook toetsenborden en de Magic losse varianten die Apple daarvan verkoopt. Daarmee dus ook Qwerty, de rechtopstaande Enter, en de §/±-knop, die ideaal is voor…

There was a discussion going on in the IndieWeb chat yesterday about feed readers. One big point that I took away is that developers must abstract away from technical terms that mean little to nothing for those who might use a tool. Technical terms are useful for implementation: they help developers…