Peter Stuifzand

This site is a long-running collection of notes, essays, and small software projects.

Writing is a useful skill to develop.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. – G.K.

I want to get more value from my Zettelkasten.

Splitting branches of notes too high up, makes installing notes more difficult.

Ever stare at your notes and wonder how to develop them further?

We version our code with Semantic versioning.

When I take notes, I look at how I work and the workflows.

People take notes to remember and learn from what they read.

AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have changed how developers solve problems.

I read the book The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto and specifically a section about how build to a pyramid structure from the bottom-up.

TIL how to use Gemini to write a template for TIL.

The succ function can be called prod(max) times.

In the video Build the Hundred-Year Web Service with htmx Alexander Petros talks about how to build a hundred-year web service.

Objects are three bit binary numbers.

Below is a simplified chat bubble for an conversation with an LLM.

For a simple note-taking application I wanted to try out embeddings and similarity search to find similar notes based on the content.

It seems I’m sentimental.

The last few weeks I have been looking at Theory of Constrains (TOC).

Necessity assumptions Why is it necessary?

The template Title The title of the strategy (and tactic).

A nice way to use the goal tree is to use a color scheme to show which goals are already fulfilled and which are not.

A Goal Tree consists of nodes and arrows.

To improve a Goal tree, you need to examine the items in the tree.

In Jira, an issue is a task and a note at the same time.

These are four obstacles to clear thinking.

The Theory of Constraints talks a lot about conflicts.

This current website is built with Hugo.

The Current Reality Tree is a sufficiency tree shows (part of) the current situation of a system.

These are some of my thoughts about Markdown in Logseq.

With a setting, a conflict between two options becomes a choice (or compromise) for the user, instead of a situation to be solved by the designer.

I often see people searching for the perfect structure or method to use a tool like Logseq.

I found a piece of code and algorithm that makes it possible to collaborate online on tree structures.

I started with Digital Ocean apps yesterday to try out a new static website.

In the beginning my website blog was generated with a Ruby app, that I wrote myself.

I was always interested in the Year in Review posts from people.

Ekster is a Microsub server.

Earlier this year I started to rebuild this website to work better with the Indieweb.

This week I’ve been writing a WebSub hub.

Sometimes you need to get a lot of information from the database and you need it fast.

XML lister is a small program that lists the elements, values and attributes of XML files. <?

XML Starlet is a program that makes transforming XML documents really simple.

I just removed Analytics from my website.

I don’t update my DNS records often, but when I do I like these records sorted.

Last week I wrote a small function in Perl that rotates and array to left.

Google released the PDF code of Chrome just a few days.

I always forget what strict weak ordering means, but it’s quite simple, actually.

In an article about creating a column layout I found the following two lines of code: var min = Array.min(blocks); var index = $.inArray(min, blocks); This first finds the minimum value in blocks and then the index of that value.

I was reading the notes on programming PDF and found a discussion about writing min and max functions for multiple arguments.

In the previous post I showed a playlist of presentations by Alexander Stepanov, the creator of STL.