Joost Plattel

Over the past few months I’ve been steadily involved with a project that aims to recreate an war/control/intelligence room that you see in movies.

This is my fourth year that I’m taking pictures everyday at 8:36pm.

Last week I stayed at Herman’s place for a couple of days.

I recently moved to a new home, and I got a freshly installed new electricity meter that’s a little bit more intelligent.

On friday evening local time (GMT+1) around 21:00 hours my server got hacked, it’s CPU immediately shot up towards 100% and my provider removed the box from it’s hypervisor node around 18 hours later.

This picture below might seem blurry to you, and indeed it is, but for me it is a significant picture that reflect 3 years of working behind my computer.

As of recently I’ve started my graduation phase of my current study.

It’s holiday, and I’ve spend most of my time last month in The Netherlands hiking.

Meetup.com is a service that I use and have been using to organize events for networks.

Last month, most of my time was spend on a project for Yuri Veerman & Elsbeth Fraanje, who are part of the Quantified Reality project by het Mediafonds & the Sandberg Institute.

Last sunday my brother and I had an exhibition with Thought Kinetics and artist-talk at Coded Matters: Extended Senses.

Last weekend I spend my time at the Casa400 hotel for the Quantified Self Europe Conference.

I’ve curated 6 editions of the Curious Corner of the Internet until this day.

Last year I gave a little talk at the Cross Media Cafe in Hilversum.

I’ve been using Django as my go-to framework for the past few months.

As an experiment, I’m collecting data from the Moves app from multiple persons within a organisation.

Like last year, I made a small video of all my 8:36pm photos.

Last week I’ve spend some time before camera lenses.

I made a small visit to Paris at the start of November and I had the opportunity to visit the Lab Store.

In July I wrote a little wrapper for the Moves App API.

I’ve been walking around with a newsletter idea for some months now.

I’ve been wearing a Jawbone UP for the last few months.

Being in de United States is a perfect excuse for visiting my brother!

Telephone companies tend to have a lot of data about a user.

Taking a week off from my study, hopping on the plane to San Francisco on monday morning at 10 o’clock.

September has been good on me so far.

The Fitbit is one of the best tools for activity tracking.The interface is nice and the hardware is durable and syncs wirelessly.

Two weeks ago I left the small village of Sloten in The Netherlands with a lofty goal, to reach Rome in Italy.

For Quantified Self starters I recommend the really nice Moves App.

Last month a give a small talk around the Quantified Self and how it fits into the education: What amazed me was that the room was full of inspiring people designing stuff for the ’now’, thus implementing it only when the future is already happening.

Software is not all there is, I’m diving into hardware!

I’ve spend past weekend enjoying what I do most, submerge in a community driven event, to come out two days later sleep deprived but full with ideas and enthusiasm.

Just two quick bits of newsworthy stuff I wanted to share with you since I got back from Italy (which was really wonderful!)

Data strategy & API

When Panic released their Statusboard app and I discovered it was possible to use JSON and html to embed it into pages, my mind raced with ideas about what to build.

Together with Heinze I’ve guided and taught several students from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam about data and data-visualisation.

SETUP is holding a competition to get programming known as modern day craftwork.

On sunday evening, the VPRO aired a new episode of Labyrint, a show for popular science.

On the 7th of February I gave my first Pecha Kucha talk.

Without further comments, all my 8:36pm photo moments collected during 2012, stitched together in a movie: All I can say is, thanks to all the people who made 2012 an awesome year!

When I arrived home this weekend, a small package was waiting for me.

Last weekend I participated in Startup Weekend Utrecht.

The Quantified Self is all about getting data about ourselves.

Just here for a few days, united with my brother.

At the third Quantified Self Conference in Stanford last week I gave a talk about Plugin Heuristcs, a term that describes something I’ve come across during my years of self-tracking experiments.

That’s what I did this summer, together with a friend.

So much projects, so little time… But hey, let’s just use some of my spare time for keeping you guys updated on the stuff I do.

I like Storify, a service that lets you curate your own story based from sources like Twitter, Facebook or other social networks.

Together with my brother I run a little experiment called Hoofdbeelden.

During the last few months I’ve given several talks about the Quantified Self and lifehacking.