Sasja Koning - Blog

As part of my yearly goals at work, I'm visiting a couple of events and conventions to keep my mind fresh and stay up to date with the latest developments in tech and design.

My experience switching from Windows 11 to Linux Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop

Using a Raspberry Pi 4B, USB microphone and BirdNET-Pi to learn about the birds in our garden.

Exploring the federated web, decentralisation, the Fediverse and Mastodon.

I reworked my website to have a clearer structure, be more accessible and performant and generally nicer.

As part of my yearly goals at work, I'm visiting a couple of events and conventions to keep my mind fresh and stay up to date with the latest developments in tech and design.

Using a motion sensor and Lenovo Tab to display my Home Assistant dashboard

Installing the quite dangerous tool OpenClaw onto my Raspberry Pi 4 for fun.

Piracy is on the rise and I have thoughts

A tutorial of sorts on how to save RTSP camera streams as MP4's to your home server and display them using Home Assistant.

I've been trying out new tools such as Obsidian, Raycast, Dia, Perplexity Comet and Kiro.

My journey from Plex to building a robust & secure home server.

I built a Chrome extension in which I use the Storyblok Management API to add the link of the current active tab to my links page on my website.

Google's new AI Overview is impacting SEO which in turn is impacting website reliant on organic traffic.

After being mildly interested in RSS feeds for several months now, I finally decided to create my own, and add RSS to sasjakoning.com.

Cursor recently released BugBot; an AI bot that can check your Pull Requests for bugs.

My experience switching from several smart devices and apps to one central system.

I've gone to the Vue.js Conference 2025 in Amsterdam for a day; here are some interesting insights from the various talks I've attended.

A while ago, Instagram pushed a new update to their app in which they introduced ad breaks, which helped me stop scrolling.

Ever since I started working full time at a company that works according to the common structure of having the design and development departments separate, I’ve ran into a specific code issue multiple times.

Looking back at my progress when it comes to development

Design + Psychology combined with Cialdini's 7 principles of persuasion.

I find psychology and the internet quite the interesting topic.