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Why I think reading books matters and what I get out of it.

A typeface you can view in two ways by focusing or unfocusing your eyes.

A nice overview of European alternatives for online services when you want to host your own website or app.

As a creative person, I think a lot about the impact of AI on my work.

Right now, I use Shotcut to edit videos every now and then, but next time I’m going to try this online tool.

Minecraft is cool, and I used to play it a lot.

Big Tech companies such as Google, Apple, and Meta offer free services in order to profit from your personal data.

Dystopian but also funny: a developer gets into an argument with an AI agent in GitHub discussions, who then writes a blog post to discredit the developer.

Aaron Francis has a point when he writes that you have to share your work if you want more people to see it.

According to Angela Duckworth willpower doesn’t work but you can make your life easier by making smart use of physical distance.

And Mark Manson shares his cheat codes.

Just like in 2022, 2023 and 2024, here's a list of the best media I consumed this past year.

I’ve already written about why I try to avoid reading news.

Dave Rupert shares a YouTube video where Odd Artworks shows the process of drawing, lining and colouring a Dungeon.

Screen time for my kids remains a tricky issue for me.

Derek Thompson argues that Social Media is hardly used for being social anymore but mostly for watching short form video’s, like television: “Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems…

“While a book requires many, many hours of work, these hours come in rather small increments.

In the news, you mainly read about doom scenarios regarding the climate problem.

A thoughtful answer of Odenkirk when he is questioned of who he is jealous of: “Anyone still with young kids at home growing up,” he answers.

Rucking is walking with a heavy backpack on.

The book 'The Comfort Crisis' by Michael Easter is full of advice, backed by scientific research, that make your life less comfortable in the short term but better in the long term.

Why I find creating something important and how that feeling is confirmed by science.

If you want to become better at something, whether it's playing the piano, writing songs, or speaking a language, make sure you engage with it every day.

Nowadays, you don't have to be bored anymore.

When you look at others, it sometimes seems like they have everything perfectly sorted out.

This October support for Windows 10 will end.

Last week I read some articles about Irvine Welsh’s writing proces.

I'm going to try writing a novel with AI.

It’s easy to outsource writing (and thinking) to Artificial Intelligence, but in the proces we lose something important: “However, writing is not only about reporting results; it also provides a tool to uncover new thoughts and ideas.

From the opinion piece “Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good” by Mary Harrington: “Long-form literacy is not innate but learned, sometimes laboriously.

I had already started with this but then came across this article.

According to Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in the news item on the website of CNN.

As Europe we need to break free from our dependency on American digital services.

David Oliver says following RSS Feeds can be an antidote to the bite-sized fast paced consumption of social media.

As a designer you feel the need to put form fields in multiple columns next to each other.

Austin Kleon shares 100 quotes that can help with writing.

I got this quote from a blog by Ryan Holiday where he shares his favourite books read in 2024.

Rigid grid systems have become outdated and unnecessary in a world where the screen widths of our devices are increasingly diverse.

Adam Silver discusses several complicated technical solutions to finally arrive to a simple, but smart solution: dividing the form into multiple pages.

Working as a designer in a large organization and getting your ‘perfect’ designs actually built can be a challenge.

WebGL is a technique that is available in all the major browser which can be used to make this interactive smoke and light visual.

I always enjoy other people's year-end lists, so that's why I'm sharing which media have occupied my mind in 2024.

Why I don't eat for 16 hours on a day and the positive effect it has on me.

Nikhil Suresh argues in this blog that the simple fact that you are willing to read in a specific domain gives you a head start.

A month after I became the proud owner of a sitting/standing desk, I came across this article.

Adam Silver, an expert on UI/UX design, had a discussion with his colleague: should a button that can do harm, such as deleting an item, be hard to find?

In this article the aesthetic-usability effect is explained by the UX experts of the Nielsen Norman Group.

A small blog with a big message: Bill Wear argues that everything you do, you have do it with your full attention.

How to strategically make use of the ‘Hemmingway effect’, which basically means to stop in de the middle of a creative endeavour even though you feel you can go on.