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Ten years of thinking out loud
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2026
20 Oct willem.frl
19 Oct Human Work
18 Oct Interactive Webdesign
17 Oct The Art of Artwork
16 Oct The Next Generation Webshop
12 Oct Outcast 99
2 Oct The Idea Factory
21 Sep Thinc Ahead 3D
13 Sep Protect Your Eggs
9 Sep Omascribe
7 Sep Twenty Times Faster
31 Aug My Own Custom Android
26 Aug Innovation Is Software
25 Jul No Smartwatch
19 Jul 80% Is Better Than Nothing
7 Jul Counting Agentic Traffic
24 Jun Six Websites in Ten Days
27 May Elfstedentocht on Feel
30 Apr Rapid Iteration in Agentic Loops
21 Apr Run Nicely
19 Apr SEO Is Dead
24 Mar Zero Staff
18 Mar The Electric Bicycle
14 Mar It Observes
25 Feb Three Games in Three Weeks
20 Feb Agentic Coding on a Linux VPS
9 Feb The Best System Is No System
4 Feb Closing a Draughty Door
21 Jan Trail Running
20 Jan Change Keeps Coming
19 Jan Offline Reading
18 Jan Using a mechanical keyboard
10 Jan Hello Video
7 Jan Websites with Auto Pilot
2025
24 Sep The Future of AI is Human
22 Sep Omarchy on iMac
29 Aug Auscultare Podcast + Audiobook Player
19 Aug Android Photo Library App
11 Aug Willemstagram
2 Aug Towards Digital Sovereignty
26 Jul The Agentic Web
23 Jul The Power of One
4 Jun Breaking Changes
12 May When the Going Gets Tough
15 Apr Vibe Coding
10 Mar Workout data in 3D
6 Mar Open-Sourcing Gran Fondo
5 Mar Durable Smartphone
10 Feb Better Laptop
27 Jan Podcast Downloader
23 Jan Champions League of Webdesign
18 Jan Master of Change
2024
2023
15 Dec Backup Rotation Scheme
10 Nov Apple Watch as Phone
1 Nov And... there is light!
14 Oct Giving AI Training
13 Oct Hello, stranger
23 Aug The Same, Differently
31 May Impact of training
8 May Tablet as Tool
3 May Using AI to generate code
1 May Working Offline First
20 Apr Tips for Long-Distance Cycling
5 Apr Cutting Cloud Costs
8 Feb Back to the University
2022
2021
9 Dec For the love of mini
19 Nov Escaping the flat tires
25 Oct Using Google Free Android
30 Sep Inspiration from a child
31 Aug Protecting VMware ESXi
13 Jul The birth of a child
30 Jun Migrating to the Cloud
5 Jun Wearing Grand Seiko
31 May Using the reMarkable paper tablet
4 May Hospitalised with MCADD
15 Apr Enter text without keys
10 Apr Fixed Gear Gran Fondo
26 Mar Art of visualisation
25 Mar Three tips to make a content strategy work
28 Feb Wearing two watches
22 Feb The value of notifications
2 Feb Realtime service uptime monitoring
31 Jan Building a product platform
14 Jan Abandoning my own tablet OS
10 Jan Commuter bike checkup
2020
31 Dec Working with special hardware from China
15 Dec Why Apple Silicon is a big deal
2 Dec Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue
30 Nov Designing my own watch
22 Nov Replacing a Shimano shift cable
3 Nov The joy of a simple laptop
31 Oct Increase traffic to your blog with a RSS feed
30 Oct How to use rsync to make backups
15 Oct Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac
29 Sep Riding with Omata One
28 Sep Refining my tablet OS experience
16 Sep Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet
31 Aug Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos
23 Aug Cleaning a vintage watch
11 Aug The best keyboard for iPad
31 Jul Influencing purchase behaviour
30 Jul Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes
9 Jul Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet
24 Jun Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design
17 Jun Tudor Black Bay 36 long-term review
12 Jun Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens
25 May Different ways to visualise health
11 May Scalable application design without magic
1 May Designing an interface for a food ordering page
30 Apr Minimalistic road bike with Gates carbon drive
14 Apr Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?
1 Apr Traffic shaping using iptables and tc
25 Mar Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system
9 Mar Making my own tablet OS
3 Mar Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture
28 Feb Your own addressbook and calendar cloud
13 Feb The day I sold my car
28 Jan Measuring cholesterol levels in blood
24 Jan Improve your sleep by blocking light
2019
31 Dec Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor
1 Dec Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision
26 Nov Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo powered headlight
22 Nov Building a professional 72TB NAS
19 Oct Flying in a C47-A (DC-3) classic plane
7 Oct Multi-Window support in your iPad app
27 Sep Visiting an international hackers conference
10 Sep Fighting backscatter spam at server level
28 Aug Riding with a power meter on your bike
18 Aug Creating a minimal road bike
16 Jul Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable
15 Jul Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors
25 Jun Assembling a cargo bike
24 Jun Six months with MCADD
29 May Solo around the Markermeer (211KM)
24 May Dig for dummies
30 Apr The best bike computer app: Cyclemeter
25 Apr Search like a pro: Google search operators
31 Mar WordPress: 10 tips to secure your website
20 Mar Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner
28 Feb Understanding the security concerns in shared hosting
27 Feb One year on the ultimate commuter bike
29 Jan Born with MCADD
24 Jan My first weeks as dad
2018
22 Dec Business in a bag
6 Dec Do amazing things with a focused mind
16 Nov Around town in an electric car
2 Nov Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?
16 Oct Rescuing files from a broken harddisk
9 Oct Using a budget Android as main smartphone
27 Sep Swimming and cycling with Apple Watch
26 Sep Optimising images for the web and performance
21 Aug Space travelling from El Teide
20 Aug Google Analytics vs AWStats
20 Jul Helping people with free software
10 Jul Enjoy a festival without alcohol
9 Jun Removing paint from a bike frame
2 Jun Creating a minimal iPhone stand
17 May Listen to your body
9 May Lunch by plane
30 Apr Off the grid: Working on 100% renewable energy
18 Apr Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting
10 Mar Cyber security: 5 easy tips to protect your server against hackers
7 Mar Tablet as main computer
24 Feb Creating the ultimate commuter bike
21 Feb Updating Snake '97
21 Jan Something the smartwatch will never have: patina
8 Jan Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag
2017
2 Dec Commuting by bike
15 Nov Collecting health data with Biostrap
23 Oct From tree to table
14 Sep Saving a MacBook Air with exploded battery
2 Sep Climbing Mount Etna
31 Aug Clouds below my floor
31 Jul The day I killed my LAN
30 Jun Fietselfstedentocht 2017
31 May Beast of the Green Hell
30 Apr Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches
26 Mar Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
16 Feb Programming on Apple Watch
30 Jan iPad Pro next to my primary machine
2016
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