Koen van Gilst

A photograph taken in Zeist, Netherlands

A side-project that analyzes diplomatic relationships through speeches during the 2024 UN General Assembly.

A photograph taken in Altenstein, Germany

A photograph taken in Altenstein, Germany

A photograph taken in Domburg, Netherlands

A photograph taken in Domburg, Netherlands

A photograph taken in Siciliy, Italy

A photograph taken in Sicily, Italy

A photograph taken in Sicily, Italy

A photograph taken in Sicily, Italy

A photograph taken in Bilthoven, Netherland

A gallery showing all my generative art projects in one place.

A photograph taken in Bilthoven, Netherlands

A photograph taken in Bilthoven, Netherlands

An experiment with GenAI to automate manual tasks in creating a critical edition of Joost van den Vondel's correspondence.

An interactive data visualization project exploring how land is used across the Netherlands, highlighting the distribution of agriculture, nature reserves, urban areas, and infrastructure throughout the country.

By using the randomness, AI can generate more surprising and engaging text, similar to how some human thinkers benefit from unconventional approaches.

For this article I used Llama3 to analyze GPT-4 tokens, revealing a strong bias towards English and code.

Large Language Models like ChatGPT and CoPilot have a dual role in simplifying and complicating software development.

Imagining the Netherlands in 2100, this page provides an overview of the impacts of climate change.

Tutorial on how to display real-time CO2 measurements from an Aranet4 monitor on my website using a Raspberry Pi.

I read "Elder Race" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, a sci-fi novel that explores the concept that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Visualizing the weather anomalies in rainfall, sunshine and temperature in the Netherlands using data from the Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI).

Moving away from the structured Git Flow to a more continuous approach with only one main branch.

A git alias to show a standup log for the specified author

A photograph taken in Zeeland, Netherlands

A photograph taken in Zeeland, Netherlands

A photograph taken in Vosges, France

About the routerLink directive and how to make sure it's accessible

Adding a dark theme to my website using NextJS 13 and React Server Components

During the pandemic, I worked on a side project to help parents create lessons for their kids, but it was too time-consuming to create those lessons.

My arguments in favor of eating less meat.

I asked ChatGPT to write a blog post about its impact on the way developers write code.

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.

A tutorial for Livebook, an interactive coding notebook for the Elixir programing language.

Stop using rm -rf node_modules, use Trash instead.

Using jq to decode JWT tokens from the command line.

A snippet I use to setup the aliases and global git config on new machines.

Part 2 of my tutorial creating "live cursors" as seen in Figma.

A snippet to parse the git hash from the command line and add it as an environment variable to a Next.js app.

Add a stand with Ukraine banner using this TailwindCSS snippet

Some advice from the Stoic philosopher Seneca for workers returning to the office after the pandemic.

A bash script that deletes all local branches not found on the remote.

A tutorial for creating live cursors as seen in Figma.

Why it's better to be kind than to be clean.

With the official mix task it has become very easy to add Tailwind to any Phoenix project.

How the ordering of functions can make component files easier to read.

It's something you easily forget, but it's easy and looks so much better.

Nice looking radios and checkboxes with native css styling

A React hook that uses localStorage (or sessionStorage) to persist component state.