dr. Sybren

A guy named Dave sent me an email today, telling me that my RSA implementation was rather insecure due to the use of the “pickle” Python module.

My old website has been online for april 2006.

Caro Emerald in Hoogwoud Caro Emerald komt met een platinum release van haar CD Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor, met daarbij “een overvolle dvd met extra video-, audio- en fotomateriaal”.

UPDATE 2019: Helaas is de Noorderpark website down.

In Prague I bought an old Flexaret IV, a twin-lens reflex camera from the 1960’s.

Yesterday I received my certificate from the Utrecht University!

Selenium is a web page testing tool that we use a lot at my work.

UPDATE 2019: check out my other panoramas on stuvelfoto.nl!

Sigma 4.5mm f/2.8 fisheye by Sybren A.

Last monday I defended my thesis and succeeded!

I’m working on a PyQt 4 application for my employer Chess.

Yesterday Ork and I went to a Strobist meeting in Breukelen, The Netherlands.

Hey folks, I’ve made my first stop-motion animation!

UPDATE 2019: the website linked below has been replaced by stuvelfoto.nl.

Bloody Marit II This photo was made in an old ship factory in Amsterdam Noord (the NDSM Wharf).

I’ve been working on a video of our live performance in Winston Kingdom using Adobe AfterEffects.

The Python FlickrAPI kit has just been released.

Holiday Special: Sausage What are you looking at?

Jojo in the snow Well waddayano, even with all the global warming we can get a few days’ worth of real winter in The Netherlands.

On Linux the most used sound system is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, ALSA for short.

I have superseded my old key with a new PGP key.

Today I released version 1.3 of the Python Flickr API.

After I uninstalled Visual Studio 2005 Pro I got this very long message (I’ve included it at the bottom of this blog post) telling me to manuall uninstall twenty other programs, in the correct order.

To sync my mail between computers I use offlineimap on a secure filesystem.

Big Brother is watching you.

I’ve seen this so many times, and thought about writing about it.

Bl3nder | CD-presentatie Leipe Shit Ouwe!

I’ve released a new version of Multiblend!

For my Master of Science course in Game & Media Technology at the Utrecht University I had to make another 3D animation.

Ubuntu uses quite a nifty package manager.

A new version of my pure-Python RSA implementation has been released.

For my Master of Science degree I have to work with Voronoi diagrams.

One of the advantages of VMWare is that it has easy to set up bridged networking.

I wrote an updated version of this blog post in 2016, and keep the list of f*ckups up to date there: My Name in the Modern World.

The new Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion Storm of Zehir disallows resting in many areas.

I’ll be performing as the drummer of my band The Soundabout in BukBuk, Heiloo, this evening.

Today I released the Python Flickr API version 1.2.

Hacking in Fallout 3 has become easier than ever.

Fallout 3 is my latest addiction.

Sometimes Java just amazes me.

For the Utrecht University I made a short animation called Pong. together with two fellow students.

Bl3nder | Cyril Directie De Uitmarkt is the opening of the cultural season in Amsterdam.

By popular demand, we’ve re-licensed our pure-Python RSA module under the European Union Public Licence ( EUPL).

NVidia has a nice program to manage display devices like monitors, TVs etc.

A pure Python implementation of the RSA cryptographic protocol.

One of the major reasons my company prefers Java over Python, is Java’s static type declarations (and all the benefits that follow).

This article was originally written in March 2008.

Setting up Squid as a transparent HTTP proxy has been discussed plenty of times.

Whenever you connect to a server, there is a chance that the server uses custom made files.

I found the Linux installation instructions for the Epic Bonus Pack for UT 2003 very unfriendly.